Munster Council chairman Sean Fogarty has slammed the FAI for displaying 'arrogance' ahead of next year's soccer internationals in Croke Park. The Tipperary man, who will run for the GAA presidency in 2008, has taken issue with suggestions that the FAI needed between two and three weeks to prepare the stadium to their own specification ahead of the historic European championship qualifier against Wales on March 24. But with the All-Ireland club finals taking place at Croke Park on March 17, they will only be given one week to get ready for the Welsh clash, and Fogarty feels they should be glad to get that period. "There has been a lot of talking about how they need a 'clean stadium' a few weeks before those matches (against Wales and Slovakia) to ensure their own match-day environment. Well, that's our call and no-one else's," he blasted. "If we need our stadium there is nothing that can be done about it. I don't know, ever since permission was given to the FAI there has been a lot of talk, a lot of photo opportunities at Croke Park and there is an air of triumphalism about the whole thing. "Let them not forget that they are on our patch." Tweet

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