Ireland under-23 manager Pat Fenlon has become the first boss to fall foul of UEFA's blocking of Northern players representing the Republic.
Fenlon wanted to bring Ruairdhi Higgins into his squad to play Slovakia next month.
However, UEFA refused to sanction the move as the Derry City midfielder has no connections with this side of the border.
Rather bizarre that the Belfast Telegraph talks of that mythical “Ireland” team and "this side of the border" (it isn’t really, they’ve nicked verbatim the report from the irish Independent), but still, that’s one mighty interesting development from an organisation who are (apparently/allegedly/ that’s what some bloke down the pub said last week) still looking into this.
I think Lady Justice may well have been already served.
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