r/coybig • u/Inevitable-Beat-9209 • 7d ago

Media FAI's General Assembly preparing motion to boycott Israel games

https://www.the42.ie/fai-egm-israel-boycott-7053531-May2026/?utm_source=thescore&utm_content=top-stories
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u/lkdubdub 7d ago

I've been of the firm belief for a while now that they won't go ahead. Maybe this will be the tipping point, or it'll be something else, but the opposition has been snowballing for some time 

We may see expulsion from competition or whatever, I'll live with that, and I suspect most of the population would too. 

I also believe we wouldn't stand alone. It's politically very difficult to be seen to act so definitively against Israel in the current environment, but I suspect at least some degree of opposition to facing Israel exists elsewhere too. If we stand up and cancel, even if neither of Kosovo or Austria joins in, there will be support expressed elsewhere 

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u/Powerful-Adagio6446 Troy Parrott 🦜 7d ago

Well we know Austria won’t join in

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u/John__Delaney 7d ago

Austria & Kosovo both won't, but Israel will eventually have to play other teams. The punishment UEFA dish out will decide what happens next imo. I see 2 possible outcomes:

  • UEFA punishment is light, maybe just a forfeit and a fine. In this outcome others like Spain, Norway, Slovenia etc... begin to do the same and Israel's position becomes untenable like Russia

  • UEFA punishment is overly harsh, something like taking our 2028 hosting away and relegation to league C. In this outcome I see UEFA members being incredibly pissed. They'll demand the expulsion vote goes back on the table & israel then get booted out.

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u/spiralism 7d ago

Can see option 1, albeit with the Israelis awarded two wins by walkover. They'd be brazen enough to crow about having "won" afterwards too.

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u/PapaSmurif 7d ago

Give them enough rope.....