Captain Purplehead

While this may not resonate with all readers, it is important in indicating how inept our soccer hierarchy are here in Ireland. You will see that the below incident features a club to which FAI Chairman, John Delaney was heavily affiliated. Now I’m not saying that that held some sway in a disgraceful decision in an arbitration hearing brought about by one team who simply weren’t good enough to beat another team but… No, wait a second. That’s exactly what I’m fucking saying. I’ve called John Delaney an idiot. I’ve called John Delaney a moron. I’ve called John Delaney a cunt and now I’m calling him a lying, corrupt moronic and thoroughly dispicable cunt. The tipperary soccer club, St Michaels should also be thoroughly and absolutely ashamed of themselves. To any player playing for this disgraceful team, I’d urge you to look for a transfer to a decent side who don’t have use a technicality to get ahead in a competition they’re not good enough to be in. I perosnally hope Clonmel hammer the fucking bejaysus out of ye.

THE FAI’s interpretation of their own rules governing players returning from the League of Ireland (LOI) back to junior soccer is
under the microscope in Limerick after the Munster Football Association (MFA) this week arrived a different ruling than its governing body.

With football fans in the Mid-West already up in arms because of the FAI’s decision to cull the Limerick FC friendly with FC Barcelona at Thomond
Park in July, the MFA, meeting in Turners Cross last Monday night, decided that Limerick side Pike Rovers can continue in the Munster
Junior Cup (MJC).

Pike were effectively booted out of the FAI Junior Cup by the FAI last month. The club subsequently appealed their expulsion to arbitration, but that appeal
was given the thumbs down.

Pike were/are in dispute with Tipperary side St Michael’s - who list FAI CEO John Delaney as a former player - who they beat 4-2 in the quarter finals of the FAI Junior Cup in Cooke Park in March.
Following the defeat in their own back yard St Michael’s lodged a protest with the FAI Junior Council.

The protest was lodged on the grounds that a number of Pike players - later reduced to a protest against one Pike player - were ineligible because
they were not properly re-instated or re-graded after returning from the LOI to junior soccer.

The FAI Junior Council subsequently decided that in the interest of fair play that the tie should be replayed, but
both clubs appealed that decision to the FAI Senior Council.

However, the FAI Senior Council ruled against Pike and they went to arbitration. The arbitration hearing was heard last Wednesday at FAI HQ in Abbotstown and the Shannonsiders were informed by post 24 hours later that they had lost.

Meanwhile, MFA Secretary Ger Delaney confirmed just a few days after the arbitration hearing, that the MFA, meeting in Turner’s Cross last Monday, had “made the decision that Pike Rovers can continue in the Munster Junior Cup.”

A Pike Rovers spokesman confirmed that the player at the centre of the FAI Junior Cup protest played in the Munster Junior Cup. This was also confirmed by the MFA, who
embargoed the Limerick clubs involvement in the MJC pending the outcome of the arbitration hearing.

Commentating on the arbitration result, the Pike Rovers spokesman admitted the club were devastated, adding that the club, founded in 1938, deserved a lot more respect than to be expelled for the FAI Junior Cup in this manner.

Pike Rovers now meet Carrick United in the MFC semi final at Jackman Park in Limerick on Saturday May 29, while St Michael’s, who were outplayed by Pike Rovers and beaten fairly and squarely in their own back yard, advance to the semi finals of the FAI Junior Cup on an interpretation of a technicality - it beats actually having to score goals.

They’ll meet fellow Tipp side Clonmel Town in the last four. The winners will face Fairview Rangers in the FAI Junior Cup final on June 13.

It is estimated that it can cost the club in the region of €8,000 to €10,000 to go to arbitration.

For those of you who don’t know, the FAI stands for the Football Association of Ireland. In fact, they should be called the FAD - the Football Association of Dublin. Y’see in our fair isle, if you’re not doing something to promote Dublin, you’re simply not doing it - or, at least, you’re doing it without any support. Take, for example, our international airports. On the East of Ireland you have Dublin Airport and on the west you have Shannon Airport. Shannon is in Clare and Clare is in Munster, yet Shannon Airport is governed by the DAA - the Dublin Airport Authority. Doesn’t make a whole lot of sense until you take a look at how both are getting on. Shannon has been gutted of flights and staff while Dublin flourishes. It’s another sick fact of life in Ireland - or, at least, outside of Dublin. The rest of the country has a bus service called Bus Eireann, which translates as Bus Ireland. In Dublin they have Dublin Bus. Yep, being the capital has very much gone to their heads. The only thing that they don’t promote in Dublin but liberally promote for every other county, particularly Limerick, is the fucking crime rate. Dublin is awash with violence, gangs, drugs and corruption but Limerick gets the bad name.
Ok, before I get too far off of the point, I’ll relax a bit and say that I’m fucking enormously fucking furious at the FAI. I mean, I’m more furious than I normally am at them. Remember that this is the organisation - (that’s a laugh) - who orchestrated the shambles in Saipan for the Irish Soccer team. They have a long history of recognising a bulging brown envelope before recognising a need or a nonsense in Irish soccer. The Irish Soccer team do not have their own stadium. Why? I mean, it’s not like they haven’t generated enough funds to build a couple of them. Well, they don’t have their own stadium because they are fucking money grubbing morons who care more about wining and dining themselves than actually nursing football in Ireland.
Ok, so the greatest team in the world at the moment, Barcelona have agreed to play a friendly with Limerick FC at the home of Irish rugby, Thomond Park. As part of this agreement, Barca agreed that their brightest stars like Messi and Ibrahimovich would definitely play some part in the game. This, translated into monetary terms, means about ten million euro for the local economy. That’s an important chunk of change given that we’re in a recession. Ok, what’s the problem? This is good news, right? Well, it was greeted with jubilant enthusiasm by all who follow sport, so yes, it was great news. Unfortunately, the FAI has refused to sanction the game because of the following three made up reasons.
1. There are two other Airtricity fixtures pencilled in for that day.
2. There is an unspecified third party commercial agreement which means that the game cannot go ahead.
3. The FAI is already in talks to bring Barca to the new Aviva Stadium - although, unlike Limerick, they haven’t reached an agreement yet.

Ok, let’s answer question 1: So fucking what if there’s another ten Airtricity fixtures going on at the time? As long as Limerick isn’t involved, what’s the fucking problem? In fact, if there was a need for some bullshit Irish International friendly where we get to watch the likes of Paul McShane running around like a headless chicken, you’d amend the fixture list? This is not a reason for your refusal; you shower of fucking knuckle-dragging reprobates!
2. Give details of this so-called conflicting agreement or just stop fucking lying, you fop- haired fucking intellectually challenged fucking muppets.
3. Ah, this is closer to the truth - not quite there - but closer. You have agreed no fucking date for the proposed friendly with Barca and Limerick City has. Which one should go ahead? In fact, why can’t both go ahead, you shower of insipid arse-reaming fucking sacks of shit?

The answer to this outrage, I’m afraid, is quite simple; Limerick isn’t in Dublin. This was way too big a fixture to let it go ahead outside the fucking capital. We need to keep promoting Dublin and fuck the Mid West. Yeah, they don’t even have a proper airport anymore. Where would the team fly into?
I fucking kid you not; these guys can’t even dress or groom themselves properly, not to mind run a sporting organisation. Look, here’s a picture of the chairman, John Delaney, if you don’t believe me.

Look at the fucking head on the cunt! Would you trust this man to even bring your shopping in from the car? Would you allow your shopping to be seen with him?
Here’s Fran Gavin, director of the Airtricity League.

Holy fucking shit! These guys are costing the local economy in the mid west ten fucking million euros! Leave the money aside, these guys are denying the mid west an occasion we richly deserve. We have given Munster to the world of sport and, along with that package, comes the supporters who are amongst the best in the world. We are passionate about sport. We go and watch sport in all weathers. Leinster supporters would feel the need to visit fucking Brown Thomas to kit themselves out in fucking designer wet gear or they wouldn’t fucking go at all. I am fucking sick to the teeth of these rank idiots who run our sporting organisations…. oh, and our fucking country, for that matter.
This whole country needs a fucking radical change. Make Limerick the capital. We don’t mind sharing. FUCK THE FAI! They’re probably still pissed off because we got to open our pubs on Good Friday. Fuck them.
This rant has been one stream of abuse at a group of fucking idiots who barely deserve to be mentioned at all. If there are spelling or grammatical mistakes, I apologise because I’m too fucking pissed off to run a spell checker across it.