Roddy Collins has been handed a whopping €1,500 fine and has been banned from the dugout for SIX matches by the FAI, for comments made in a recent Irish Daily Star column.

The Waterford United manager was up in front of the association's disciplinary committee on Monday, where he was grilled about his remarks.

Waterford United have since released a statement regarding the punishment.


Collins is thought to have been handed three separate punishments of €500 and two games each.

The former Bohemians and Derry City boss will appeal the ruling tomorrow.

Here are some excerpts from the column, to which FAI bigwigs took grave offence:

“There is no security here. Figures came out over the weekend showing that the average annual wage for a player in League Two is around three times higher than in the League of Ireland.

“Yet people argue that a move to the bottom two tiers in English football is a sideways, or even a backwards move?”

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“It's not an industry, it's something that people are addicted to, often to their own detriment. They gives their lives to Irish football and get very little in return.


“And when they pass on, their role will be filled by someone else with the same passion. That's not progressive.”

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“There are a lot of very good people involved in Irish football. And thank God, because without them we would have no league to launch on Wednesday.

“The game here is f**ked without good people who get nothing in return only stress and abuse, and without the players and the phenomenal effort they put in.

“It would be lost without the supporters and voluntary workers, everyone who tries their hardest to make it happen.

“Outside of that it's a shambles.”