Caught In A Trap
Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.So did the FAI fall ass-backwards into the appointment of Giovanni Trapattoni, or did the intrepid Band of Three track down the highly decorated Italian like expert hunters on the trail of a grey-furred, catenaccio-advocating bear.
Whither Denis O'Brien? Is his largesse, as John Delaney claimed, merely a case of a footy fan with a few quid chucking loose change into the kitty? Can a governing body of a major sport, really have a billionaire media magnate paying half the wages of their most prominent employee, without any conflicts of interest, muddied ethical waters or general funny business arising?
Oh, that it would be straightforward! You know, the old-fashioned, orthodox way of things: football association seeks manager, football association finds manager, football association hires manager.
But hey. There's always another day, another phone-in show, another back page to ask all the questions. For a brief, beautiful interlude yesterday - possibly for the first time since Tony Galvin waddled the left wing and John Aldridge had a moustache - FAI, fans and media existed in a harmonious, Zen-like utopia. All was Trap, and Trap was good. Trap transcended. The power of a twinkly-eyed pensioner with a rucksack full of scudettos achieved the seemingly impossible.
With a few words of his strange Germano-English, Trap washed away our sins: the cheap shots about John Delaney's haircut, the whistling at Croker, Robbie on the Late Late. Just for a few moments the pesky duty of asking those - hah! - pertinent questions was abrogated, and we, each and every man Jack that holds Irish football dear, were lost in a reverie of promised turgid 1-0 wins all the way to South Africa.
We should send him down to Cork.
posted by Tommy77 at 9:40 a.m.
9 Comments:
I don't think the ubiquitous euphoria and genuine reservations about shortcomings in the appointment are mutually exclusive. The former is just a logical product of the fact that in this appointment there are far fewer of the latter than anybody hoped for!
coverage in the Irish Times today is quite shocking. Apparently, after they'd interviewed 7 or 8 people, the selection panel were still trying to think of other suitable candidates to do the job. And when the name trapattoni came up, Don Givens followed it up with queries through his old club. All of which suggests that the panel werenae happy with annointing el tel the man. It beggars belief, but it looks like we genuinely did come to a sensible candidate after (over)long and careful consideration.
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