Champagne Football. John Delaney And The Betrayal Of Irish Football. The Inside Story

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: PENGUIN
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2020
Edition: First Edition

Description: 319 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Over the course of fifteen years, John Delaney ran the Football Association of Ireland as his own personal fiefdom. He had his critics, but his power was never seriously challenged until last year, when Mark Tighe and Paul Rowan published a sequence of stories in the Sunday Times containing damaging revelations about his personal compensation and the parlous financial situation of the FAI. Delaneys reputation as a great financial manager was left in tatters. He resigned under pressure, and the FAI was left hoping for a massive bailout from the Irish taxpayer. In Champagne Football , Tighe and Rowan dig deep into the story of Delaneys career and of the FAIs slide into ruin. They show how he surrounded himself with people whose personal loyalty he could count on, and a board that failed to notice that the associations finances were shot. They detail Delaneys skilful cultivation of opinion-formers outside the FAI. And they document the culture of excess that Delaney presided over and benefited from, to the detriment of the organization he led. Champagne Football is a gripping, sometimes darkly hilarious and often enraging piece of reporting by the award-winning journalists who finally pulled back the curtain on the FAIs mismanagement.

ISBN: 9781844884933