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.
So we can add the Sun to the list of newspapers the FAI told it wasn't Delaney in the video?
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.
Ah, I get ya.
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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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?
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.
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
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.
Hello, hello? What's going on? What's all this shouting, we'll have no trouble here!
- E Tattsyrup.
Ya I know, I knew there was some ridicule coming my way for reading it
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
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.
Hello, hello? What's going on? What's all this shouting, we'll have no trouble here!
- E Tattsyrup.
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.
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.
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!!!
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!
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/
On what basis would we have had a legal case? That wasn't public knowledge until now, was it?Originally Posted by RTÉ
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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