Book that bursts John Delaney's FAI bubble deserves champagne treatment | Barry Glendenning
05-Oct-2020 07:00:14 | Guardian
The Irish bestsellers chart is deservedly dominated by an examination of the incredible financial shenanigans at the Football Association of Ireland
Despite grabbing public interest with such force it is currently keeping even the mighty Midas that is Richard Osman off the top of the Irish bestsellers list, on the face of it there is no earthly reason why a book written on the deathly dull subject of football administration should be of particular interest to any right-thinking human being. And yet, here we are.
Little more than a fortnight after its release, Champagne Football: The Rise and Fall of John Delaney and the Football Association of Ireland bestrides the literary charts, already heading for its third print run due to the kind of popular demand that would make a boy wizard blush. Who knew the excruciating and usually tedious minutiae of national sports governance could make for such grim, compelling and often sidesplittingly hilarious reading?
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