DUBLIN (AP) — Ireland's soccer association pushed back its deadline to hire a men's national team coach to September and apologized to fans for the delay on Friday. Ireland, which did not qualify for the upcoming European Championship, had hoped to have a new coach in place by this month after Stephen Kenny's contract wasn't renewed last November. “We recognize that the timelines and deadlines that we’ve previously set have created a sense of expectation and potentially confusion for everyone,”
Comment: As lucrative as FA Cup replays can be, the economic model of lower-league clubs should not be dependent on pot luck
All replays from the first round onward are being abolished.
Chelsea’s ability to regress to a laughing stock in an instant presents a warning as Mauricio Pochettino’s side face Manchester City in the FA Cup semi-finals and return to the scene of the ‘blue billion-pound bottle jobs’