Will Slattery

The FAI are in a tough position.

The stuff you outlined there, it's not the FAI's job to do what they want to do or think they should do.

It's their job to kind of... Protect the game.

Yeah, I know.

To be fair, in the face of what you read out, that sounds...

and very small in the face of you.

And I wouldn't argue with that necessarily, but I suppose trying to play devil's advocate of what they might say as well.

Our job is to ensure football in this country is thriving or ongoing or certainly not really regressing if we really piss off UEFA.

I'm just trying to put myself in the headspace, so I suppose there's a bind there to some degree.

But yeah, it's funny it's kicking off now.

So it's how many months until October?

This is going to be a long...

protracted media process, I feel like.

I expect the game to go ahead still, I think.

But this is a long way out.

My last devil's advocate point, I don't think it's a straightforward decision for the FAI as that letter would point it out.

I don't think.

Obviously, all things being equal, they definitely wouldn't play the game, I think.

That's what they would all think.

But I don't think it's quite as simple as, oh, yeah, you're right, let's just not play it.