Ben Symes
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first heard Jan 2026
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That FIFA committee back in March, they effectively threw UEFA themselves under the bus.
The exact quotes are, the IFA's conduct has brought football into disrepute and has tarnished the reputation of football in this region and beyond.
Therefore, is there not a case for the FAI to go at UEFA through the same channels?
I know FIFA didn't end up punishing them
There's two separate committees.
But is that not kind of a channel laid bare for the FAI to go at UEFA and say, you are not following up with your own statutes here and us as administrators are going to call you up on that?
Because people will turn around and say there is a clear avenue there to go through the litigation and you haven't gone through that.
Can I ask, you made a comment yesterday about unilateral boycotts and you said that you don't believe that they achieve anything.
Do you not accept that there needs to be one person to kind of start and go out there and make this happen?
And if the FAI were to actually go forward and say, no, we are boycotting and actually make that stand instead of just talk, that other nations might actually follow it.
Do you feel like you have been I won't say the words thrown under the bus but do you feel like you've been kind of left by UEFA left a little bit on your own and not supported by them in this
You've effectively shielded UEFA and taken the brunt of the criticism upon yourselves.
That's
You spoke about kind of being in UEFA and being in a member group and you have to respect that.
I mean, people just say you're in a member group in terms of FIFA and you have elected to go against the current FIFA president.
So there's kind of a clear kind of switch up there where in UEFA you're saying you're part of a member group and have to respect the wider views of the group.
But then in FIFA, you are going against the president.
in terms of when you spoke about UEFA, you spoke about being a member state and being part of a collective.
You are part of a collective in FIFA as well and you elected to go against some of the collective.
So is there not a case then in UEFA to go against the collective and really take a stand on this?
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