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I mean, if this is the case, Newcastle might as well pump a billion in and in 2041-2042 be in the Championship for one season.
Hardly a deterrent.
🚨 BREAKING: Manchester City are expected to face a HUGE points deduction that would guarantee relegation to the Championship, following guilty verdicts on the vast majority of their 115 financial charges.
A further points deduction next season could keep City in the Championship for at least TWO seasons.
Relegation to League Two is considered unlikely.
[Daily Mail]
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It was confirmed to me this morning by a prominent football journalist informed by a former FAI board member that the UK-based player agency Unique Sports Group (@UniqueSG) threatened the Irish players yesterday that they'd never play for US-owned UK clubs if they refused to play
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Rafah, Palestine.
Rafah had a pop in 2023 of 280,000, approx the same as Cork City.
Like Cork it was over 1000 years old.
It's now gone.
Not a single intact building, football pitch, school or church.
Israel did this.
And today Ireland lines up to play football. 😑
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The players were coerced.
The vote was a fraud.
Courell needs to go today.
"It has been suggested to him that it would be better if he left the squad, which I think is disgraceful"
- Brian Kerr was speaking with Gavin Bazunu this evening.
irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer/…
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"Bazunu has been left brutally isolated, any semblance of squad unity has been utterly sundered, the head coach looks bewildered, fans are already voicing their disgust, and the FAI has been humiliated before the watching world" Irish Times. @FAIreland = Ireland's shame.
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If it is true that someone on the Irish team abused Bazunu, then that individual should never represent us again. Bazunu was representing the Irish people with his principled stand. Anyone opposing him represents something entirely different.
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I think it needs to be clarified what the team were told about possible consequences of not playing this game.
FAI CEO David Courell says a vote took place among the Republic of Ireland squad on whether to fulfil the Nations League fixture against Israel, and a "significant majority" of the players voted to play the game. #RTEsoccer
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This situation has left a seriously bad taste in my mouth. The Irish team has always been something I felt always ‘loved’ you back and is always on the right side of history, but fuck me this has seriously damaged my support of the team. FAI have lost the support of the nation.
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As statements go, Gavin Bazunu’s is as good as it gets really.
Don’t think it’s completely beyond the realms that tomorrow’s game doesn’t happen.
Even if it does, Austria in the Aviva on Thursday won’t be good and next Sunday’s return leg may not seem worth it.
Unfortunately, the FAI are looking increasingly incompetent each passing day.
What a complete mess.
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One of the lowest moments in Irish football history.
A nation that has suffered under it and he can't even say the word....and apologises.
This is pathetic.
This is shameful.
This is wrong on so many levels.
Football has let our nation down and is grovelling to Israel.
Republic of Ireland boss Heimir Hallgrimsson is asked if he regrets saying Israel is commiting genocide #RTEsoccer
This is all so sickening.
Israeli FA statement to start presser: “Football has won. The separation between football and politics must be maintained, any other approach spreads chaos.”
Says IFA (Israel FA) and FAI have stood together to prevent people who wish to turn football into a political arena
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One last 'F*** You' from the FAI to the players by bringing it to a vote.
Not to wash the players of this completely, but I hesitate to imagine the lobbying, pressure and threats that came their way from agents, club owners and FAI officials throughout this shitstorm.
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Any Irish player who refuses to play against Israel and instigates a boycott of these doomed fixtures is going to become a national legend. That's not why they should do it but it's a simple fact. For God sake, #stopthegame #BoycottIsrael
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Kanye West did a song titled Heil Hitler and is currently doing a concert tour, which has included multiple dates at Raymond James stadium in Tampa that has banned Macklemore for saying end the genocide & free Palestine
fucking absurd
Promoters have pulled Macklemore from Ed Sheeran’s tour after he called for a “Free Palestine” on stage:
“We have been notified by venues on the upcoming U.S. tour dates that they will not allow a concert to take place with Macklemore on the lineup”
(rollingstone.com/music/music…)
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This is Ireland's moment. A nation holds its breath. #stopthegame
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The Mayo man in the crowd that went down on his knees crying when the final whistle went in Croke Park just broke me. Sport is just wonderful. Sport means something than transcends generations. The most wonderful scenes.
