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Football let down by FAI governance, clubs lose out on TV cash: Rovers’ boss

Football has been ‘poorly administered here for 18 years’, says Shamrock Rovers’ owner Ray Wilson

Shamrock Rovers celebrate winning the league: the club received just €125,000 in prize money while it made €3.5m from getting to the group stages of the Conference League two years ago. Picture: Inpho/Ryan Byrne

Football in Ireland is let down by the FAI’s reputation when it attempts to lobby the government, one of the owners of Shamrock Rovers has claimed.

Ray Wilson, also the head of Australian investment manager Plenary, said the sport in Ireland needs to get its act together.

“We're just not sort of properly organised as a sport from a governance point of view, from a representation point of view.

“That then makes it very difficult ...