Champagne Football | Brian Kerr & Niall Quinn on John Delaney's FAI legacy.

Following the success of Mark Tighe & Paul Rowan's best-selling book - #ChampagneFootball, Brian Kerr & Niall Quinn discuss the damage to Irish football caused by John Delaney's reign at the top of the FAI.
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[@helenheeney2284]

You went along with all of it Niel but really believe BRIAB KERR IS A TRUE FOOTBALL MAN

[@helenheeney2284]

Thank you

[@bentuber1]

Hopefully Delaney gets some jail time. But this is Ireland 🇮🇪 so no chance. Just like Fitzpatrick

[@dbcooper7326]

He will be president more like

[@barryb90]

When Quinn was appointed interim CEO I was hopeful. Since he left and they shipped in people from the equally corrupt Olympic council to the board and kept the old guard. I gave up. FAI is a joke.

[@davidhilliardmusic]

As Pat Dolan said years ago, the FAI needs to be cleaned out from the CEO right down to the tea lady in the canteen. Rotten corporate culture to the core. Multiple levels of management whose only skill is to delegate. It's rampant in Irish culture in general unfortunately.

[@John_Wood_]

Shocking how Brian Kerr was treated. He was a man willing to put his heart and soul in to Irish football and he was thrown aside by snakes and traitors.

[@stephenflynn1003]

Shud of been a total clearout. And let the people vote in who they want to run it id have quinny still there and brian kerr involved

[@barryb90]

They shipped some in from the equally as corrupt Olympic Council to the board. It's a hopeless cause

[@DJ-mb4gg]

The Delaney era was extremely damaging to Irish Football. The lack of inward investment in our own league really is disgraceful when you hear of the millions pocketed and wasted by this man. There is no justifying it. I think its evidently clear now the national side is not what it was and if there was ever a time to focus and invest local clubs its now.

[@Mabrennan2012]

I will never watch or support the Irish football team until John Deleaney is in jail. He is a thief, pure and simple. Same for anyone at board level who did nothing to stop them, the whole point of a board is to take responsibility in a devolved manner. If they were too spineless to do anything they are not board material, and or were involved in the whole charade. Anyone still around at that level needs to go, probably the next management level also.

[@Jac-Jay]

I agree but the man is never setting foot in jail.. it's Ireland, nothing will happen to him.he is worse than some of the people serving time

[@Mabrennan2012]

J J, It's hard to disagree with you to be fair. Pitty more of us don't do something about it. Politicians aren't the problem in my opinion. Civil servants are, they are the only constant across every government. Ministers barely get to know the role and they're off out. What civil servant was holding the FAI accountable for the use of those funds and why di they still have a job? That's gross negligence and they should loose their job. They would loose their job in the private sector/real world. The half wits want us to do our own track and trace now I believe, it's a database and phone calls, hardly ground breaking.

[@gunnerboy2975]

Hated Keane when he was playing for Manchester United but don’t get me wrong, he was a winner & had a hunger to succeed. Whilst I hated him, I respected him too. I’m not an Irish football fan by any means but he was right all along. He was portrayed as the pantomime villain for Saipan but he was spot-on. Delaney was a bent fucker who stole money from the development of Irish football to fill his pockets. He manipulated the fans by getting them rounds during the the games rather than making a statement for Irish football & investing into the football clubs. McCarthy was effectively his yes man & Keane exposed that. Maybe he should have gritted his teeth & played at Japan/South Korea 2002, but the damage was done with those 2 crooks Delaney & McCarthy.

[@helenheeney2284]

Completely agree only piece dont agree with is I actually love Roy KEANE but you are sooòoo right about the rest👍👍👍

[@wonjubhoy]

It is unfair to call Mick McCarthy a crook.

[@helenheeney2284]

Why didn't you all listen to Roy KEANE in Sipam then Nial instead you all humiliated him for telling the truth shame Love BRIAN KERR a true football man shame on the rest of you

[@johnpembroke4899]

Nonsense. Keane, as our captain and leader, overstepped the mark and was kicked out of Man Utd for similar behaviour. Saipan had nothing to do with Delaney. It was Mick McCarthy who chose the location. Roy Keane, being an introvert, hated being far from his wife and family, was exhausted after another tough season at Utd, and didn't want to be at the WC in the first place, stuck with a bunch of footballers who did not match his level of professionalism. It was the chaos of Keane walking out on his country that left a vacuum for a new FAI CEO to be appointed. So Keane, inadvertently, was the making of Delaney in some ways. I don't blame Keane though - even before Delaney took control, the FAI needed urgent reform, instead we got Coco the Clown.

[@johndoyle1810]

Shocking and sickening really,,,you wouldn’t know the half of it,,,money talks and people get crippled financially

[@charliekavanagh1217]

How Delaney walked away with a load of money 💰. is an absolute disgrace

[@anthonyegan59]

Good man Brian,keep walloping Delaney the Deep Vein thrombosis of Irish Football.

[@alzer6467]

Niall you didn't need to bring experts in to tell you the fai is seen as a jokeshop in Ireland.

[@suffern63]

Oh,as a Nordie who listened to the defence of the man when he sang provo songs how the karma makes me laugh.If I were a southern fan,listening to Quinn talk about the "brand" I would want to vomit.

[@Democracy_Manifest]

You're mad mate. Most saw through that muck. That was Delaney trying to win over what he thought were fans. Most fans are happy to leave that sectarian guff aside, Ireland vs Norn Iron hasn't been a derby since the 90's. I'm delighted John Delaney has been seen for the fraud that he is. Read the book.

[@conoroflynn2335]

Delaney ran the FAI like a putin regime , no one asked questions and those that did were moved on .usual story walk away with big payoff rewarded for his failure .

[@TheThesmyths]

We know you read this John, why don't you comment?

[@andrewwalsh6177]

We need to start from grassroots up look at what irish rugby has done and copy i went to a rugby school and 70% of us where into football yet no school football team and the football team we could of had would of been ten times better than our rugby team. Get goal poast and 2 blokes of the dole get them there bages into ever school in ireland set up a proper schools leauge with a schools cups and lets try get a reliable source of home grown players it would cost fuck all and give us some chance later down road

[@jamesfagan7823]

Gangsters everywhere in this country church, financial sector, political field 🙄

[@draoicht22]

Niall sided with Mick in Saipan didnt he??

[@johnpembroke4899]

And rightly so. Keane had overstepped the mark. Simple as that. Yes the FAI were still shambolic back then, but nothing compared to what was coming. Keane had every right to slam the FAI in the press, but he had a responsibility at the 2002 WC as our captain and leader to lead by example. The truth is that he didn't really want to be there, far from his family, with a pack of players, who many of them he despised as being bullshitters, Spice Boys and only there for the craic and the pints.

[@ianmulhall768]

Don't remember him saying anything about it when he was getting paid off

[@devout666]

All these people knew but all took the coin. Modern football in a nutshell.

[@bentuber1]

Brian kerr managed Ireland 🇮🇪 under delaneys regime. Should have spoke out then.

[@helenheeney2284]

He did but none listened

[@johnpembroke4899]

He didn't have the experience to be our international manager then. He needed to have a highly experienced no.2 like Staunton had. The only difference being that Staunton simply did not have the personality for football management at any level, despite being a phenomenal footballer. With Stephen Kenny now it's a bit different, as Kenny has managed in Scotland and also is clearly a modern progressive coach tactically.

[@cringycook9597]

Debit Delaney 💳💶💶💶

[@John-ro1iv]

I'm not even going to watch the whole video, but I'm guessing Brian Kerr says something about some player giving another player "a dunt"..

[@mikeyk212]

The Delaney era for the FAI was generally great. Great days. Qualified for all the major tournaments. We ran out of money when we stopped qualifying for tournaments. Of course it's easy for the mob to dump on Delaney now. It's like back in the days of Rome. Irish football is all about qualifying for major tournaments. If we don't do that we are at nothing.

[@rayoconnor4413]

We qualified for exactly zero World Cups in the Delaney era.

[@mikeyk212]

@@rayoconnor4413 Usual story with the Irish. We always jump on board with whatever mob is goin. Delaney is guilty of everything that's wrong with Irish football. Stephen Kenny is the messiah. We like simple narratives. Reality is Delaney operated the same way as most CEO's of private companies with credit cards an personal expense accounts.

[@barryb90]

Yeah, alright John.

[@mikeyk212]

@@barryb90 No , not John Delaney. Like to make up me own mind which is difficult with the Irish fake news media.

[@conorl1894]

We might as well have not qualified for euro 2012 so poor was the performance. Embarrassing