FOOTBALL DAILY: Stop The Game protests grow louder
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Welcome along to Friday's Football Daily, I'm David Wilson. Coming up today, Ireland beat Qatar, but the Stop the Game protest takes centre stage. St Patrick's Athletic travel to Talat to take on Shamrock Rovers, but can Stephen Kenny's side take down the champions? And Argentina name their World Cup squad as Lionel Messi gets ready to play in his sixth tournament. But first today the Republic of Ireland bet Qatar 1-0 at the Aviva Stadium last night thanks to an early headed goal from Nathan Collins. Jack Moylan crossed in for the captain to score just after 6 minutes but Hamerhal Grimsonside couldn't add the all important second goal to kill off the game. Moylan was shown a red card for a high challenge and a Jessam Gabber by Northern Irish referee Jamie Robinson just before the half time break.
Qatar themselves were reduced to 10 men, with sub Al-Muaz Ali being given his marching orders after he tussled with and then felled Jason Malumby off the ball. However, the biggest story of the night was the game being disrupted twice in the first half by the throwing of tennis balls onto the pitch. Supporters opposed to the decision to fulfil the upcoming fixtures with Israel in the UEFA Nations League voiced their frustrations also. After the game, speaking to our own Ben Symes, head coach Hamer Hall-Grimson said that he respected the decision of the supporters to protest.
Yeah, I've said what I think. So everybody knows my standing in this. If Russia is banned, then I don't see the difference why Israel shouldn't be banned. I'm on record saying that, so I stand to that. fact saying that I need to think and I'm here to think about the football side of things. Boycotting a game for me would be wrong because we will be giving them gifts. We will be giving them gifts. We will be giving them six points. We will be giving them 6-0 in goal difference. So they would qualify from the group probably
What was the outcome of the Republic of Ireland vs Qatar match?
gives them a great chance of qualifying for the Euros that is played here in Ireland. So instead, we probably would go down to League C in the Nations League. Future national teams will suffer for that. So I say we should... give everything to win Israel. That's our answer as footballers, to win the game. And if the nation should be so good to help us with that, to win that game, that is just my stand. I need to think about the football side of it.
Whilst on Friday mornings off the ball breakfast, Shane Hannan, Dara Smith-Nocton and Enda Call discussed how the players have been put in a difficult situation.
In 1971, an ad came out in America. It featured a Native American and all the trash that was being left in the national parks in America and across America. And the tagline of it was, people start pollution, people can stop it. It was funded by Keep America Beautiful. Do you know who funded Keep America Beautiful? I don't. Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and other companies that made the exact plastic that was polluting the place that these ads were talking about. In 2004, the idea of a carbon footprint was born. Do you know who came up with the idea of a carbon footprint? I don't. British Petroleum, the second largest private oil company in the world. And the idea behind it was to, again, place the blame on the individual.
And I see very, very similar stuff happening here with the Israel situation. To an extent, I don't blame the FAI as much as I do UFM FIFA, but they are... breaking their own rules by allowing Israel to continue to play international football. They are leaving this up to the individual. I studied history and politics in college and I'm growing extremely concerned about the presence of certain people in football and sport in general. I've never seen something so horrible been made so normal.
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