Ewan MacKenna: John Delaney has been leading the FAI for ten years. What has been achieved?

It’s easy to criticise – but it’s easier still when there’s so much to criticise.

Ewan MacKenna.

It’s easy to criticise – but it���s easier still when there’s so much to criticise. This December, it’ll be ten years since John Delaney took over at the FAI. Today, his national side head into another qualifying meander, starting out with possibly less interest than any campaign since he grabbed the reins, and probably less talent than any campaign since the early 1970s.

What talent we do have is down to chance, rather ...