The legal proceedings Eileen Gleeson is taking against the Football Association of Ireland were always likely to put Carla Ward in an awkward enough position once asked to comment on them.
Gleeson, after all, is her predecessor in the role as head coach of the Republic of Ireland women’s team and has made accusations of gender discrimination against an association that is Ward’s current employer. And in Gleeson’s view, Ward should be earning the same as men’s coach Heimir Hallgrímsson.
The safest route might have been to offer a “no comment” when she spoke to the media in Abbotstown on Monday, using the fact that it is now a legal matter as a shield, but “you know me by now,
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