Roddy doesn't Kerr about Euro prestige
Wednesday July 01 2009
WE don't know if it is a flash in the pan or whether Irish managers leaving for obscure outer regions of Europe will become the norm, but Roddy Collins certainly seems to see his move to Malta as a step in the right direction.
The former Bohemians boss even had the audacity to not only compare his move to that of Faroe Islands boss Brian Kerr, but to proclaim his the wiser choice.
"Well if the Faroes is good enough for Brian Kerr then Malta is good enough for Roddy Collins," said, eh, Roddy Collins, proving, by way of referring to himself in the third person, that his ego has not been hit by a four-year absence from the game.
"Except he's getting what he deserves, rain 200 days a year and I get sunshine so somebody must be looking down on me!"
We'll break it to Roddy softly, but while he and his new team prepare for the new Maltese Premier League season and the prospect of playing unknown teams like Sliema Wanderers (whose apparently home-grown captain's name, incidentally, has a rather Irish ring to it -- Noel Turner) at the beginning of August, Kerr will have a slightly bigger task.
That's because the Faroe Islands will be hosting France in a World Cup Qualifier.
- Neil Ahern
