With a curse of rotten timing, Stephen Kenny settles into his dream job just when the rationale for international football blurs at every turn. Through a variety of circumstances, Ireland were short 13 players yesterday. And it’s a moot point what appetite Kenny will now encounter in his players for this week’s Finland trip given how last week’s events degenerated into circus. It’s clearly an eternity from what he himself ever envisaged life as an international manager would be, yet the hard truth is that even stranger days may well lie ahead. But we live in a hopelessly frazzled world, one doing the new Ireland manager few favours.

Source: Irish Independent October 11, 2020 18:56 UTC