After 231 long days of rumors, lies and wishing for a successor to Stephen Kenny and we finally have one.

Out of the blue today, The FAI announced that Heimir Hallgrímsson is to become the new Republic of Ireland senior men’s manager

Marc Canham called him their ‘number one candidate’ but we’ve heard that before.

Hallgrímsson  himself said it was an honour to be given the job and spoke about having a ‘young and exciting team that has genuine potential’

An exciting unexpected appointment, or the FAI scraping the proverbial barrel – this is 5 in 5.