The FAI and pitying the land

You'd be forgiven for thinking we'd just qualified for the world cup. Or even better won the damn thing. What we appear to have done is pay someone a large amount of money to come and manage the Irish team. I'm not sure how that qualifies as an achievement. Isn't that the point in paying large sums of money. Hope he does well. It'll be  an interesting contrast to Steve Staunton no doubt

Somehow this quote pops into my mind.

"Pity the land that has no heroes," says Andrea, a pupil of Galileo. "Pity the land that needs heroes,"

Galileo, by Bertold Brecht, translated by Charles Laughton

Still though maybe the moaning will stop for a few months.