Great article Stutts. This piece in particular sums it all up for me. If the FAI truly has a vision, then they need to empower Dokter to execute it. Good luck with that!
Dutch levels of co-operation between clubs seems fairly unthinkable here in Ireland where the FAI puts its investment in the last four years in “grassroots programmes, high performance, and emerging talent programmes” at €60 million but resistance from schoolboy outfits to a national under-17 league is one of the problems Dokter, like Wim Koevermans before him, will have to contend with.
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