What would have been hard - what would have been really, really hard - was to be running an organisation which was trying to stop people from playing football. Yes, that would be a challenge, an impossible one really, trying to stop people playing football - trying to go against this thing which is more than a sport, it is a major world religion. Because if the need to popularise the game is virtually non-existent, the needs of the football administrators themselves are manifold. Delaney brought something to the game that looked modern all right - because poor Paddy had not yet realised what this thing called Executive Culture can do to the culture in general. Last Days at Luggala brought us into this fabulous place which was ostensibly in Co Wicklow, in Ireland - except it wasn't really in Ireland.

Source: Irish Independent December 22, 2019 07:07 UTC