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Front of the queue you said mate. How are they at the front of the queue ?
Who decided Irish players could play for Ireland, was it the FAI?
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Would FIFA allow a united Ireland team? Are there any other international football teams that represent two different jurisdictions in a single team?
Also, we are not breaking any FIFA rules and are quite entitled to play guys from the six counties. So Iāve no idea why you are moaning about this.
I thought they didnāt take their seats just so they could get a head start in queuing?
Itās entirely a reaction to the moaning about the Irish rugby team.
Walters really is a fantastic fella.
Heās a warriorā¦wasnt a penalty though.
That Harry Arter is a horrible cunt. Floppy hair, Tory loving, English prick.
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Walters really should have played McGeady in.
Duffy didnāt need to lead with the elbow.
2 points dropped.
Great bit of stuff from Walters to get the goal though.
Serbia and Montenegro played together for a while
Indeed, but that was due to the countries splitting up. Weāve also had similar entities like the representation of Czechs and Slovaks and the Commonwealth of Independent States etc.
What Iām specifically asking @GeoffreyBoycott is if there is any precedent for two places from separate jurisdictions being allowed by FIFA to form a united team.
Yes there is a precedent. Politically and at a jurisdictional level the Irish Free State came into existence in December 1922. The partitionist FAIFS (now known as the FAI) was founded in Dublin in 1921 notwithstanding the fact that the IFA founded in 1880 represented all of the island. The FAI partitionist team didnāt play its first international until the summer Olympics of 1924 in Paris. The Ireland team that competed in the home internationals of 1922/23 and 1923/24 represented the whole island of Ireland, the two political jurisdictions on the island, notwithstanding the partition of the island.
FIFA is not in any case bound by the borders of sovereign states.
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Not a precedent at all. Youāre going back nearly 100 years and still making an arse of it.
He has more than oneā¦
You might want to refer to back to the question who initially asked.
I have provided an answer and cited an example. A team representing two separate political jurisdictions on the island was allowed to form a united Ireland team in 1923 and 1924 to compete in the Home Championship notwithstanding the partition of the island of Ireland in December 1922. You donāt like the answer that Iāve given you so youāre now trying to move the goalposts and impose a statute of limitations on the question you initially asked.
Not a precedent ffs. FIFA has been known to allow this to happen when countries are splitting up or dissolving as weāve previously established.