Press conferences can be mind-numbing at the best of times – for all parties involved. Stephen Kenny understands the gig and embraces the need to answer the same questions for online, print, radio and television about a two-year contract extension that – all going well – takes the Republic of Ireland back to the future and a Euros in Germany, 36 years after Joxer went to Stuttgart.
Yesterday the 50-year-old Dubliner decided to briefly tear up the script and invite reporters deep into the unmapped corridors of the FAI offices in Abbotstown for no reason other than he could.
We shuffled into a small video room, dominated by this gargantuan flat screen, to witness the aftermath of the latest management meeting. Lithuanian starting XIs were plastered across the walls as the giant TV began rolling clips of positive build-up play from the recent World Cup qualification campaign. Except the angles were alien to what we are accustomed to seeing on television.
The point of this exercise was simple enough. Kenny could take off the public mas …
- March 11, 2022
