The Americans ride into Dundalk tonight for the first time and will hole themselves up at Oriel Park to explain their plans for the most successful club in Ireland in recent years, which they purchased last month from two local businessmen. These people are not like the cowboys who have infiltrated themselves in one or two other famous Irish clubs, but supporters who are expected to flock to the gathering this evening will still have plenty of questions to ask about who the investors are and what they are doing at the club.

Among them is Jordan Gardner, a minority shareholder in Swansea City and a new member of the Dundalk board, who spent part of last week with the manager Stephen Kenny and his