Early goals and no handshakes: Ireland beats Israel
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What were the immediate reactions to Ireland's 3‑0 win over Israel?
Next, the repercussions of Ireland's three nil victory over Israel in De Breken in Hungary last night continue to be felt after Saturday's chaotic scenes before the game. FAI President Paul Cook has defended the association's handling of the controversial fixture. As the team prepares for a home game against Austria and the second Israel game at the weekend, John Fallon, football correspondent with the Irish Examiner, who was at the match in Hungary. Uh John, what was the atmosphere like in the stadium?
Yeah, good morning David. Yeah, it was it was an eerie atmosphere, something that I've never experienced myself either. Uh as a fan or as a journalist, uh the stadium in the Brecken is twenty thousand capacity. And while we thought there might have been a thousand or maybe fifteen hundred people there, there was only less than two hundred, uh of which you probably had a hundred and eighty of them, um from Israel. We know that about a dozen Irish fans uh got into the ground, but yeah, you had you had that knot of Israeli fans in one section of the stand and they certainly um made plenty of noise. They let the Irish team know what they told them quite early the moment that they emerged onto the pitch.
For the warm up there was there was boos and cheers and whistles galore. Um so anytime any player was over that side of the pitch taking a throw in or so on, they were very vocal. And unfortunately that became a bit sinister later on with some abuse. uh directed towards Adameda, uh which we might talk about. And that was sort of a uh a a takeaway from the game that the FUE were certainly trying to raise it with UEFA and but because technically they hadn't followed the right procedures on the pitch, uh that won't be the case.
Yeah, is is that as simple as the the the word racist racist wasn't used, that that that they didn't say it was racist abuse specifically?
That's it, yeah. So so we we asked Hamer Hill Grimson after the match about it. He was aware um of it, but apparently what happened, Jason Malumby uh had spoken to the referee well spoken is i i isn't technically correct. He had interacted with the referee as they came off at half time, but because he had put his hand to his ear making making a a gesture around uh sound rather than say the word racism, it wasn't technically accepted by away. FIFA as invoking the procedure because at that point what they're supposed to do is is pull a uh a warning out over the Tanoi mm that if it was to happen again uh it may result in in the teams being t taken off the pitch.
Okay. And before the game the Republic of Ireland players m m made a a kind of a symbolic protest as well.
did, yeah, we were aware of certain protocols which they weren't willing to comply with, such as, you know, uh refusing to shake the hand of the Israeli players, exchange penance, black armbands but the bowing of the head was probably the most symbolic and um that really went out, you know, around Europe and around the world. Um Israel would not have encountered that before.
How did John Fallon describe the eerie atmosphere inside the Debrecen stadium?
Um so that was very much yeah, the talking point.
Uh UEFA di uh uh obviously as you've said, UEFA are not prepared to do anything about racist abuse of an Irish player. Are they likely to punish the Irish players for those uh those actions?
Uh I believe some of the some some of their their um protocols that they missed are are liable to disciplinary procedures. This one about bowing the heads probably comes under a disrepute category, so it is potentially there that they could do so. Uh I would say it's unlikely uh in terms of the range of of of of some of the um activities that they would they would confront.
Yeah, um th a three nil victory in other circumstances we would be talking about the the football, John. Um a three nil victory it's kinda been overshadowed completely, hasn't it?
Oh entirely so. Entirely so. I suppose had the result not gone well, it may have just uh throwing more attention back to the weekends events in terms of the players having that vote on Saturday. But they could say, you know, the match is over now, they have played the match, they've played Israel despite the seven month build up and all the c uh protests that took place back in Dublin.
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