How John Delaney Ruined Irish Football

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  @MonzennCarloMallari · 4 years ago

  Video title: John Delaney, Irish football<br>First 2 minutes: Saipan<br><br>Ah yes, another classic HITC Sevens video

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• SA

  @SamOGr · 4 years ago

  Thank you so much Alfie for making this video, its not a story heard outside Ireland, but its one that needs to be told, what Delaney has done to the FAI is horrible and created a deep culture of failure, the domestic scene is way below standard and the national team is in a horrible state only being fixed by a few young stars, whats hapened to my country on the world stage is embarrasing and I can inly hope the new people fix it, although I dont have much hoep

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• PA

  @paulmeehan194 · 4 years ago

  John Delaney should be in prison. Instead he gets a golden hand shake. Nice pension from ruining Irish football. Makes me sick .

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• OL

  @oliverqueen5883 · 4 years ago (edited)

  It’s insane to think that we were once the 6th best football nation in the world considering how shocking we are now 😭

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• DA

  @danielmurphy8262 · 4 years ago

  Being Irish and a football fan is not a fun time. Even with a 40 minute video, you have barely scratched the surface of how absolutely horrible John Delaney is and what he has done to Irish football. The League of Ireland community had been saying how bad he was for years prior but his media friends covered for him. Even when non-LOI fans began critiscising him in the mid 2010s, he made sure he had powerful allies. Ultimately, everyone and their dog knew there was dodgy stuff going on and it was only a matter of time before he got found out. Thankfully since his departure, it has slowly been getting a bit more positive. Stephen Kenny, after almost leading Dundalk into the Champions League groupstages, is now the National Team manager and is making us more progressive in our play and bringing through new young players. The LOI is slowly earning more acknowledgment in Ireland and hopefully will see the facilites improve to further on its growth.

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• AL

  @Alejandroprz000 · 4 years ago

  Greetings and sending love to our Irish brothers 🇮🇪 from Mexico 🇲🇽

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• DA

  @danielmurphy8262 · 4 years ago

  If you are not Irish and are watching this, I would recommend the book mentioned in the video: “Champagne Football”. It is almost unbelievable some of the events and expenses that took place and sweetly describes Delaney’s downfall and the utter shitshow that he has caused.

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• HU

  @hughleigh3959 · 4 years ago

  As an Irishman, John Delaney has made football in my country absolute hell.

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• DA

  @danielmurphy8262 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Some other things I, as an Irish football fan, would like to also add to this important video:<br>- The loss to Luxembourg was almost inevitable in that we were due an embarrassing defeat to fully come to terms with what has happened to Irish football. Thankfully since then, the national team has begun looking better.<br>- The LOI despite the Delaney treating it with as much contempt as he could, has managed to survive. I do believe if it wasnt for FIFA+UEFA rules stating that all associations much have a national league system, he would have binned it off at the first chance.<br>- The 2010’s saw the first occasion of Irish clubs qualifying for UEFA groupstages (which has happened a total of 3 times) in spite of the LOI recieving f- all help/support from the FAI.<br>- In 2017, the Irish Women’s Senior team proteseted and went on strike due to poor travelling arrangments, having to change in airports and not being allowed to keep their gear after International duty.<br>- Delaney created this celebrity personality for himself and tried to build connections to save himself. The celebrity personallity meant non-Football fans took attention to him and build up his profile, while the grassroots money was purely to have people on his side when shit hit the fan (ie he looked after some so they would look after him.<br>- What worked in John Delaney’s favour after Saipan was that the FAI was an ametaur organisation and he said he was the one to modernise it.<br>- I also want to emphasis the fact that the FAI was €70m in debt and was going to be in administartion. For a national association that is disgraceful, while the FAI under Delaney had been publishing accounts that claimed the FAI was reporting slight net positives annually.

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• CO

  @Cos1711 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Alfie just as an FYI John Delaney visited my soccer club on his grass roots tour before being finally ousted. The donation he made to the club to help put funds into youth development was valued at 10,000 euros. You might be wondering why I said &apos;valued&apos; there as it wasn&apos;t money he was offering to us for badly needed facilities from the FAI but tickets to the FAI ball that year that we could raffle off to raise funds. But when interviewed on local radio that day he stated He had given us 10,000 to use.......He was literally the worst and eveyone was blinded by his promises

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• IV

  @ivoxvxi7482 · 4 years ago

  As an Irishman, I&apos;ve never expected or even wanted an amazing national team and league.<br>All I want is something that the country can feel like we can actually get behind. Having a league on the same level as say the Swiss or Belgian leagues would be a dream come true. Just having a league that can actually contribute to our players developments rather than pinning our hopes on England.

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• NI

  @niharg2011 · 4 years ago

  We needed Michael (The Irish Guy) to co-narrate this one

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