Ireland vs Israel - To play or not to play, that is the question Read OP for Mod Warning

You think FIFA is a functioning association? 🤣

I doubt many people are aware they are using Israeli tech.

But that funding is currently under serious pressure of being severely limited by the EU and others. The UK have just issued the following:

"It also announced that, for the first time, the UK's official guidance would "explicitly advise businesses against economic and financial activity in illegal settlements".

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper told the House of Commons: "We believe that violent settler groups should not be profiting from the land that they have seized from Palestinians."

She added that the Israeli government had "condemned some settler violence, but that rings hollow when there is scant accountability"."

Australia, New Zealand, Norway and many others are implementing similar sanctions.

So, boycotts are ramping at up at increasing speed. All that remains is world sport - that's not too far away.

Without UEFA the FAI have no money. Thats a cold hard fact. 

That is a lie, not a fact.

Ticket sales, kit deals, and TV rights are all still there without UEFA. The GAA do quite okay without UEFA. Without the current UEFA deals there may be less money in the short-term but who's to say that leading the charge in setting up an ethical footballing body wouldn't put the FAI in a better financial position int the long-run since, you know, organisations tend to be more profitable when they're not being skimmed from by corrupt officials or wasting money on gold trinkets to gift to petty tyrants.

You conveniently missed the word "explicitly".

As ever Paddy - you're a great one for twisting words yet shriek and demand apologies when you think people are twisting your own.

I doubt many people are aware they are using Israeli tech.

That's what I posted - it is not a claim - that's an opinion. Most people would get the nuance.

What you also fail to address is the increasing avalanche of Governments rapidly turning their backs on Israel. The lads in FIFA will be watching very closely.

You can scramble, bluster, lie and obfuscate as much as you like but that hole you're digging keeps getting bigger with every post. It's remarkable how you just can't see it.

No UEFA means no matches in UEFA tournaments or qualifiers for same. It doesn't mean we can't host friendlies against other nations, compete in non UEFA associated tournaments or, indeed, continue to have a League of Ireland.

Though that said, if an "ethical footballing body" is pie in the sky nonsense, perhaps the world would be a better place without footballl altogether…