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Champagne Football
- John Delaney and the Betrayal of Irish Football: The Inside Story
- Narrated by: Johnny Candon
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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Over the course of 15 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. Delaney's reputation as a great financial manager was left in tatters. He resigned under pressure and the FAI was left hoping for a massive bail-out from the Irish taxpayer.
In Champagne Football, Tighe and Rowan dig deep into the story of Delaney's career and of the FAI's 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 association's finances were shot. They detail Delaney's 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 organisation 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 FAI's mismanagement.
Critic Reviews
"I read it in one sitting, it's a superb book." (Eamon Dunphy, The Stand)
"An astonishing exposé." (Martin Ziegler, The Times)
"Excellent." (Irish Sun)
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- william wallace
- 29-11-2020
the storey that need to be told
you could not make this up , an example of how initially power and ultimately total power corrupts, great credit to the authors and journalist whom exposed this corruption at great risk to their own careers , I hope.they continue to get the plaudits they deserve
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- Glenn D
- 21-12-2020
Free haircuts courtesy of the FAI!
Want to rip your hair out? Mark Tighe has done a fine job of giving you all the motivation you will need!!
Well written by the author and well performed by the narrator. Would recommend.
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