‘It’s horrible football to play against’: Conan Noonan on Waterford’s remarkable turnaround
Every football team must come to some kind of compromise between the individual and the collective, and Conan Noonan is emblematic of the productive settlement negotiated by Graham Coughlan at Waterford.
The Blues face Derry City on Sunday in a first FAI Cup final appearance in 22 years. The game is an exclamation point at the end of a season in which they improbably avoided relegation under Coughlan’s watch.


