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Dolan slams FAI over scheduling
Cork City manager Pat Dolan has hit out at the FAI for scheduling the Irish under-21 international against Albania for Friday, June 6th – the same night his Cork City side meet St Patrick’s Athletic in the Premier Division.
City’s star striker John O’Flynn was called up to manager Don Givens’s squad in midweek after his scintillating start to the Premier Division campaign, during which he has scored seven times in just four games.
And while Dolan has given his backing to O’Flynn’s inclusion, he is angry that with the under-21 international fixed for the Friday night, he will be without his star striker for the clash with his former club at Richmond Park on the same date.
In his weekly column in the The Irish Daily Star, Dolan wrote: “What does this tell us? It shows us that the FAI quite rightly have to take into account the English football fixtures. But it also tells us that nobody within the association has taken into account the Irish professional soccer league.”
He concluded damningly: “The bottom line is that we have a national association that is concerned with the interests of their national team – and not interested in running the National League.”
Filed: 05/09/2003
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Dolan slams FAI over scheduling
Cork City manager Pat Dolan has hit out at the FAI for scheduling the Irish under-21 international against Albania for Friday, June 6th – the same night his Cork City side meet St Patrick’s Athletic in the Premier Division.
City’s star striker John O’Flynn was called up to manager Don Givens’s squad in midweek after his scintillating start to the Premier Division campaign, during which he has scored seven times in just four games.
And while Dolan has given his backing to O’Flynn’s inclusion, he is angry that with the under-21 international fixed for the Friday night, he will be without his star striker for the clash with his former club at Richmond Park on the same date.
In his weekly column in the The Irish Daily Star, Dolan wrote: “What does this tell us? It shows us that the FAI quite rightly have to take into account the English football fixtures. But it also tells us that nobody within the association has taken into account the Irish professional soccer league.”
He concluded damningly: “The bottom line is that we have a national association that is concerned with the interests of their national team – and not interested in running the National League.”
Filed: 05/09/2003