Phil Egan

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.

the spectacular games we're looking for probably won't get going to the last 16, but there is still a few decent games to look at.

Obviously, the fact that the opening ceremony, the first game was at the Azteca Stadium, which is the most iconic venue in World Cup history.