Given that he has to watch every home game, anything more than a sentence of time already served would be harsh.
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Given that he has to watch every home game, anything more than a sentence of time already served would be harsh.
Couple of moments standout moments for me , if it’s just the league we are talking about id go for Greg Bolgers goal v Sligo in 2013, my second league title but the marney episode tainted the first one. I largely missed the boat for the two in a row but got a few games in. They were different times when I actually believed in the league.
There is always a fair chance Tomas Connolly will send off someone from Harps, but he is getting desperate at this stage.
https://www.independent.ie/world-new...itUf81Nn2Z3Eds
So is the mascot suspended for tonight's match? Can a match be forfeited by fielding a suspended mascot?
Bohs and their keeper James Talbot had a page in the Shamrock Rovers programme dedicated solely to a review of his post match radio interview and with RTE after the last derby. Has any other club ever afforded an opposition club/player the same treatment.???
Can't belive anyone in Shamrock Rovers thought that was a good idea
:D #GreatestLeagueInTheWorld
https://twitter.com/collieoneill/sta...63242147905538
I'm surprised this hasnt popped up elsewhere! Very Waterford Whisper like but even as a rumour should be part of this fine thread as much 'cause it's not beyond possible! JD's way back to Europe along with Waterford FC. If he has been payed off by the FAI then they havent found or proven legal wrongdoing so he couldnt be stopped heading a new ownership group on fit to be a director type rules with any govt or football groups. It would be pure entertaining....
https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soc...aney-1.4059446
That Thai fella at Man City was a fit and proper person. That test isn't worth a ****e from what I can see.
The article suggests the terms of his payoff mean he can't get involved in an LoI club, which would surely scupper things. Though you never know in this league!
I dont know on what legal grounds they could make that a requirement. If he has been paid off rather than sacked outright there cant be such legally binding requirements beyond confidentiality on the payout amount. If he wanted to do it but there is a clause in his 'redundancy' he could easily challange it. It would fit perfectly with the pig ignorant nature of the chap and I'd hope that Waterford fans would stand against his involvement at any point. Either way it would make for an interesting development on so many levels!
I guess if he has signed in writing to confirm he won't take up such a position or else xyz happens, that may be enough. How they work in practice - thinking contact clauses saying you won't leave a company to join a close competitor for example - I don't know.
Though of course there's always ways around regulations, as John Gill/Vinny Perth will know.
And even then, as Delaney well knows, Waterford could just conveniently denied a licence...
Those general non compete clauses would usually have to be time limited in order to be enforceable. And the time period has to be reasonable, it's been a while since I had a look at that area of the law but I have it in my head that you'd struggle with a clause that lasted 12 months or more.
I'd have used the Jeff McNamara example of Dundalk getting around the rules especially with Waterford as the subject!!
The licencing process under a Delaney led ownership was one of the angles for a GLITW moment I was thinking of. There are so many reasons not to do this and be completely horse sh1t but it is so out there there could be some actual substance to it all. John th Baptist doesnt do rejection too well and he needs a crowd to throw his tie in to after all..
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=479905389049163
An absolute belter of a Greatest league in the world story!!
George Hamilton mistaking Ronan Finns child for a teddy bear live on television is peak #greatestleagueintheworld
When ye see him in front of the camera the glasses he wears are practically binoculars. Sadly he is of another era with the recently retired and departed old cohort at RTE Sport.
Sure he thought Farrugia scored the winning penalty
*Bump for Waterford fans!!
I can’t believe this thread hasn’t been filled with pages of stuff from Dundalk for the last two years!
Waterford have lots of contenders for this but sacking a manager by text message 3 days before the biggest game for the club in years has to be our number 1!
Ha. The best stuff probably doesn't even make it on places like this!
The Mark Bircham sacking brings back memories of the sacking of Martin Lawlor as Longford town manager only days before the start of the new season in 2002. It turned out to be a good decision but I cant remember the exact circumstances behind it?
It wasn't that exciting really. He'd signed hardly any players because nobody wanted to play for him and those that he did sign he'd given ridiculous contracts. The coaches he'd brought in were going to leave too. Some of the players that were there a while and wanted to stay on made the club aware of how bad the situation was so they sacked him and gave Alan Mathews the job. Leading to "sack the board" chants from certain members of Section O whose anonymity I shall respect ;)
If this was LoI it would top the GLITW list! Ridiculous stuff.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/59448376
That's FAI-grade shambles all right...
There's a whole thread for it in the World Football forum :)
https://stainestownfootballclub.co.u...ent-june-2022/
Not League of Ireland related but still deserved a mention,the part were they lose part of their pitch isn’t even the worst ����
Considering the upcoming World Cup, Man City, and new Newcastle owners the accusations of 'financing of environmental crimes, price fixing, deforestation, forced evictions, human rights abuses, child labour, slavery, gender discrimination and murder' are not off the wall for football investors. Joe Dixon on the other hand seems a tad off the wall regardless on whether his specific accusations have substance or not. Beyond Staines Town, how about Levski Sofia efforts. By 3.15mins in the vid below, the old nugget of the business model mentioned is new stadium and retail units. Its actually an amusing watch in context of all the proposals for LoI over the years. He might even trump Bill Hulsizer.
https://www.facebook.com/levskioffic...43920126011088
Maybe he could throw his lot in with Irish Seas FC...
From pub team to Europe, Bruno's Magpies soar (rte.ie)
This was an enjoyable read.