Phil Egan

So UEFA were never going to step in and say, do you know what, lads, you're right and we won't play this game.

So,

I get people saying, well, we could be the ones to make the stand and maybe others would follow.

I would imagine so as well, yeah.

So you'll have two games behind closed doors, neutral venues, and then that'll...

That would be UEFA, just their way of dealing with it.

This is what it's all about.

It's trying to reduce it and minimise it.

But as I said, this won't go away.

This statement, it's the next phase of this.

We've obviously talked about what are the government going to do about it?

What are the players going to do about it?

What are the FAI going to do about it?

This is just the next phase.

There's going to be more developments, I'd imagine, between now and the 4th of October.

Yeah, there's also within their statement, they obviously have referenced that they were in consultation with the FA and Palestine and how they are understanding in terms of the sporting merits of, you know, the penalties of what might happen if Ireland don't fulfil the fixtures.

And that's something the FAI talked about earlier this year.

They said back in February they were always going to fulfil these fixtures.

There is going to be a lot of games like this.

It probably won't really get going in terms of quality.