Stephen Henderson is sure to spark some debate with these comments on Ireland’s footballing culture.
While everyone’s gaze has been firmly fixed on the goings on in France with the national team, the Cobh Ramblers boss is focusing on the entire landscape of Ireland’s football culture from the domestic league system all the way up to the tippy top.
Henderson’s Cobh Ramblers defeated Athlone Town on Friday, a club whose finances have seen better days. However, they aren’t the only Irish club struggling at the moment and Henderson pointed that out by admitting that his club can’t fill their own stadium.
He soldiers on though, because he genuinely cares about the state of the League of Ireland and developing young talent, a passion he believes is absent from certain people in positions of power in the Irish scene.
Twitter is about opinions & thoughts . Here are mine based on my experience of football in this country .
— 🇮🇪Stephen Henderson☘️ (@stevehendo07) June 26, 2016
@HOTSHOTZ2 nobody in a position to do so really really cares about football in this country of ours .
— Stephen Henderson (@HOTSHOTZ2) June 26, 2016
@HOTSHOTZ2 we have incredible people with a passion & desire to make a difference, isolated & ignored because they actually care
— Stephen Henderson (@HOTSHOTZ2) June 26, 2016
@HOTSHOTZ2 90% of those incredible Irish people in France are there for fun & rightly so , that’s why we had 5k tickets
— Stephen Henderson (@HOTSHOTZ2) June 26, 2016
@HOTSHOTZ2 we can’t fill our own stadium
— Stephen Henderson (@HOTSHOTZ2) June 26, 2016
@HOTSHOTZ2 we can’t fill our own stadium
— Stephen Henderson (@HOTSHOTZ2) June 26, 2016
@HOTSHOTZ2 we have no plan we have no direction regardless of the bullshit we are fed .
— Stephen Henderson (@HOTSHOTZ2) June 26, 2016
@HOTSHOTZ2 the worse thing that has happened us , is getting this far , because everything is great now . #bolix
— Stephen Henderson (@HOTSHOTZ2) June 26, 2016
@HOTSHOTZ2 for the majority of people who don’t know Cobh is down the bottom of our country .
— Stephen Henderson (@HOTSHOTZ2) June 26, 2016
@HOTSHOTZ2 I and the lads who work with me will try and do our best for the young players down here , because we care & want to .
— Stephen Henderson (@HOTSHOTZ2) June 26, 2016
@HOTSHOTZ2 I personally , failed my A licence on 2 occasions because I did not agree with elements of what I was told .
— Stephen Henderson (@HOTSHOTZ2) June 26, 2016
@HOTSHOTZ2 I passed the 3rd time when I “pretended” to give a bolix what I was been told .
— Stephen Henderson (@HOTSHOTZ2) June 26, 2016
@HOTSHOTZ2 we are potentially a great football nation regardless of our size but only when we get people involved who genuinely care
— Stephen Henderson (@HOTSHOTZ2) June 26, 2016
@HOTSHOTZ2 we have a Dutch man with no clue of Irish culture dictating a plan not suited to our race .
— Stephen Henderson (@HOTSHOTZ2) June 26, 2016
@HOTSHOTZ2 yet our national team manager plays completely different to our “development ” plan . WTF.
— Stephen Henderson (@HOTSHOTZ2) June 26, 2016
@HOTSHOTZ2 I was personally charged for bringing the game into disrepute because I aired the need for “rest “as part of our Dev curriculum
— Stephen Henderson (@HOTSHOTZ2) June 26, 2016
@HOTSHOTZ2 Roy keane is a genius for saying same thing ?
— Stephen Henderson (@HOTSHOTZ2) June 26, 2016
@HOTSHOTZ2 last night in Athlone was heartbreaking. People who probably supporting the club 4 decades looking through a fucking gate .
— Stephen Henderson (@HOTSHOTZ2) June 26, 2016
@HOTSHOTZ2 people with passion & a love for LoI football looking tru a gate wanting but unable to drive their team their club on.
— Stephen Henderson (@HOTSHOTZ2) June 26, 2016
@HOTSHOTZ2 it’s a fucking disgrace .
— Stephen Henderson (@HOTSHOTZ2) June 26, 2016
@HOTSHOTZ2 I sincerely apologise for my language but if broke my heart to see this happening in our league to our people even if we won
— Stephen Henderson (@HOTSHOTZ2) June 26, 2016
