Football innovations: Ireland’s Wexford City Council teaches defensive skills by stealth
Is it any wonder that Giovanni Trappatoni’s Ireland team are as exciting as Stoke’s six-yard box when local councils are sending all the wrong messages to the youth? Witness their insidious attempts to instill the De Gea “punch through the crowd” and the Terry clearing header in the young folk of Adamstown and New Ross, Co. Wexford.
Where are the Zlatan overhead kicks? The devilish Falcao set pieces? Liam Brady would be spinning in his grave… if he were dead, which he isn’t.