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    So we can add the Sun to the list of newspapers the FAI told it wasn't Delaney in the video?

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    Sorry, Balls.ie were referring to themselves when they said "including this one".

    That text in the original was linked to a previous Balls story: http://balls.ie/football/162201-john...deo-wasnt-him/

    I didn't include the link in my quote.

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    Ah, I get ya.

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    Although that obviously doesn't mean we should simply dismiss the entirely-conceivable possibility that the FAI also informed the Sun that the man in the video was not John Delaney!

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    Ah, I'd say probably not. The Sun aren't in the good books ever since they ran Delaney getting the €5m for shutting up about Henry. If they'd asked they probably wouldn't have got an answer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Warfield
    Some say the Divil is dead, the Divil is dead, the Divil is dead
    Some say the Divil is dead, and buried in Killiney
    More say he rose again, more say he rose again
    More say he rose again, his name was John Delaney
    Re-release it as a single, Brian

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    So we can add the Sun to the list of newspapers the FAI told it wasn't Delaney in the video?
    This could run and run...


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    Except heard you sing that song after drink been taken and that you were putting out that unfunny cartoon a mere 5 years ago...

    That said Delaney is now on a par with the other two clowns. If not surpassed?

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    Anyone read the article yesterday about Delaney and Nadia Forde? It kinda goes to show the way he uses the FAI as his plaything. He was obviously trying to get the leg over, gave her all these opportunities and then finds a new one who puts the foot down and Nadia is cast aside, and so is anything in relation to her (match day/promo )role in the FAI or pre-match formalities.
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    Was going to read it, but read your summary and changed my mind - for saving several million brain cells an agonising death, many thanks.

    At this stage, I think the only thing many football fans want JD to get his leg over is a land mine.
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    Ya I know, I knew there was some ridicule coming my way for reading it
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    No, no, not at all. You've done a fine public service there, Paul! At the very least, I hope it was an illustrated article to make the tedium more bearable.
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    Delaney wants Blatter out and the FAI wont be voting for him, if these elections go ahead. He backs Platini publicly as a man he can do business with in this.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32891267

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    Quote Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke View Post
    Delaney wants Blatter out and the FAI wont be voting for him, if these elections go ahead. He backs Platini publicly as a man he can do business with in this.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32891267
    He makes Albert Reynolds sound like Einstein.
    Delaney claims credit for singlehandedly getting uefa to shift from 16 to 24.
    He implies credit for spreading the finals around 13 countries.
    He loves uefa for just doing it, based on what his mouth utters at random moments.
    Platini is not just a friend but a good friend.
    And nasty Blatter doesn't listen like Platini, he wouldn't agree to increase the wc finalists from 32 to 33.

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    Delaney claimed credit for the 16->24 a few months back too, didn't he? To be fair, this is the guy who requested we be the 33rd team at the World Cup so it sounds like the sort of thing he'd ask.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin View Post
    Delaney claimed credit for the 16->24 a few months back too, didn't he? To be fair, this is the guy who requested we be the 33rd team at the World Cup so it sounds like the sort of thing he'd ask.
    Ah jasus lads, aren't we so lucky to have him!

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    When I heard Delaney's comments on Blatter the first thing to come to mind was 'He without sin caste the first stone'. So drop the big of rocks John!!!

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    Delaneys description of FIFA and yesterday's events could just as easily be pointed to the FAI.

    No transparency over finances.
    CEO untouchable.
    Retirement age for incumbent Blazers increased as they get older.
    Dissenters barred from AGM
    Complete lack of accountability mechanisms

    It's hard to tell though whether FIFA is rotten from the top down, or bottom up. Probably both. It is, after all, a federation of national associations, with many of the national associations themselves corrupt and/or dysfunctional and in some cases a member of a corrupt/dysfunctional continental federation. It's a patronage organisation where the donors and the recipients are all on the take or acting in self-interest. Sound familiar in an Irish context?

    However, it works. Football is more popular and more commercially successful than ever. As the FT said last year, imagine how good world football could be if FIFA was actually functional!

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    Interesting comments from Delaney today with regard to claims that arose last year that FIFA paid the FAI €5 million to be quiet about Henry's handball: http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/inter...ayment-to-fai/

    Quote Originally Posted by RTÉ
    FAI chief executive John Delaney said “an arrangement” with FIFA will remain “confidential for the moment” when asked about a reported €5million payment following the incident which led to the Republic of Ireland missing out on the 2010 World Cup.

    France defeated Ireland in a play-off match which saw Thierry Henry clearly foul through a hand ball in the build-up to the winning goal.

    The FAI requested that Ireland be permitted to the competition as a 33rd team following the error by the referee.

    Delaney told RTÉ this morning: “There was a legal case we had against FIFA at the time. There was an arrangement that was come to but it certainly wasn’t bestowing patronage to us.”

    Asked about what the arrangement was, Delaney said: “That is confidential for the moment but what I will say is that at no stage have we ever voted in favour of Blatter.

    “We have been consistent in that all through and I have as well. That is the bottom end of it. Today, like I said earlier, we will be voting against Blatter because he is not the man to lead FIFA going forward.”
    On what basis would we have had a legal case? That wasn't public knowledge until now, was it?

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    Fair dues to him if he did manage to secure some money for the FAI to go away but as you say, I don't see that FIFA had a legal case to answer, otherwise every team hard done by a refereeing decision would be banging at FIFA's door. Are the FAI's accounts published each year ? It would appear from Stuttgart88's comments that they are not.
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