FAI looks for successor as Staunton’s brief tenure ends

With one game remaining in the now futile attempt at qualification for next season’s European Championship finals, Staunton and the FAI parted company, we were told, by “mutual agreement”. Which translated means, we decide to sack you and you agree to walk away with a fat compensation check.
Bruised and battered following a series of hugely underwhelming team performances, not to mention an equally bewildering sequence of team selections, Staunton returned to his home in the English midlands about