The highest ranked in Meath would be teams in the local North Eastern Football League, of which Navan Cosmos would be the pick of at the moment.
Parkvilla FC are a Navan based team who play in the LSL. Traditionally they would have been seen as the highest ranked team in the county, getting to the FAI Cup proper on a few occasions but they have been on the decline in recent years.
There was an attempt a few years ago to enter a team into the new U17 LOI (think it was called Royal Meath FC) but that fell by the wayside. Honestly, the appetite isn't there for a LOI team in the county. Many in the county support Drogheda and more recently Dundalk. In fact, Drogheda United would pull in a sizeable ratio of their fans from Meath from areas like Slane, Navan, Duleek, Stamullen and even Balbriggan in Dublin.
Soccer has made huge strides over the past few decades but Meath is still traditionally a GAA county. Any attempt to set up a LOI side would end badly IMO.
You've got no fans.
Emmet Malone reckons that recent cases of similar nature suggest O'Neill and McClean are far more likely to receive fines than bans over their comments in relation to the Austria game ref: https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soc...cism-1.3127722
Malone further points out that FIFA take on-field dissent and physical displays of disrespect for the officials far more seriously than they take comments in post-match interviews.Originally Posted by Emmet Malone
Dan McDonnell applied the same logic - http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-35853683.html
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