Eamonn Sweeney: The time for pretence and play-acting is over. Welsh defeat was a disaster
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The Ireland women's soccer team. Photo: Stephen McCarthy / SportsfileIreland’s failure to qualify for the European Championships is one of the great disasters in our sporting history. The catastrophe is made even worse by being self-inflicted, entirely predictable and richly deserved.Our women’s soccer team has been heading for a fall since the sacking of Vera [...]
The Ireland women's soccer team. Photo: Stephen McCarthy / Sportsfile
Ireland’s failure to qualify for the European Championships is one of the great disasters in our sporting history. The catastrophe is made even worse by being self-inflicted, entirely predictable and richly deserved.
Our women’s soccer team has been heading for a fall since the sacking of Vera Pauw after the World Cup finals. Maybe a loss of player faith in her methods really did coincide with FAI panic over anonymous American allegations. The problem was that the FAI turned a crisis into a disaster.