LONDON (Reuters) - Ireland shredded 18,000 match programs containing comments about FIFA by Football Association of Ireland (FAI) chief executive John Delaney ahead of Saturday's Euro 2016 qualifier against Scotland in Dublin.
In the original program, Delaney offered his thoughts on the crisis at world soccer's governing body but the FAI decided to pull them at a reported reprinting cost of 7,000 pounds ($10,890.60).
"John Delaney was entirely unaware of this change to the program. He had already signed off on it and it was approved for printing," the FAI said in statement reported by The Daily Telegraph.