The FAI's Decision to Abandon Ireland's Warm-Up Match With Columbia

The Republic of Ireland manager Vera Powers said her players feared for their bodies during the warm-up match with Columbia that was called off after 20 minutes. The Colombian FA released a statement, said the Irish preferred not to continue and added, we follow the rules of fair play. But it's in a friendly to start kicking lumps out of people when you all want to play the World Cup. Lesha Littlejohn is the twin sister of our talks board colleague, Shabana Hearn. She had been subjected to one previously. So I think the FAI decided, look, this is too risky and abandoned the game and then just played a training match, Ireland A, Ireland B instead