Aidan Fitzmaurice: How can you ‘trust the process’ when the process resembles a farce?

FAI director of football Marc Canham, left, and chairman of the FAI international and high performance committee Packie Bonner. Photo: Ben McShane / Sportsfile

Aidan Fitzmaurice

Trust the process.

A phrase that’s greedily attached itself to sport in recent years. Plucked from TED talks by clueless hucksters and loved by the LinkedIn crowd, it’s the most meaningless three-word sentence.