Ireland face France in Paris tonight and host Holland at Aviva Stadium on Sunday.
Has the fallout from Vera Pauw’s departure inadvertently bought Stephen Kenny time as the senior men’s manager?
And Kenny can certainly help himself by delivering in these games against star-studded France and Holland. Leaving Athens in June, after that dismal 2-1 defeat where Kenny said he ‘didn’t see himself as a coach’ in the team’s performance, his neck was on the chopping block.And at that point, it was widely accepted that Kenny’s time in charge would hinge on the outcome of these September games in Paris and Dublin.
Evan Ferguson’s hat-trick was rightly lauded, but the bulk of the football coverage in print and on the airwaves over the weekend centred on Pauw’s explosive RTE interview. He was left performing that task himself and said yesterday: “It’s a different challenge coming to Paris when you’re missing several players.“It’s a tough group and we knew that but we want to qualify, that's our ambition regardless of how tough the group is.
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