{"id":666087,"date":"2026-10-26T19:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/666087\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T19:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:22:15","slug":"eng-v-ire-u15-wc-match-abandoned-after-alleged-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/666087\/","title":{"rendered":"Eng v Ire U15 WC match abandoned after alleged racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A match between Republic of Ireland and England at at FIFA&#8217;s new Under-15 World Cup has been abandoned after the English players walked off the field following an allegation of racism.<\/p>\n<p>Footage from the match appears to show England coach Matt Thorpe beckoning his players off the field after a confrontation between one of their players and an Irish opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Words also appeared to be exchanged between the two coaching teams, and the game at the tournament in Azerbaijan was stopped with the Republic of Ireland leading 4-1.<\/p>\n<p>A FIFA spokesperson said: &#8220;FIFA is aware of an incident at the FIFA Under-15 World Cup and Festival match between England and the Republic of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The match was abandoned by the referee following England&#8217;s refusal to continue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The official reports are being gathered, and the matter will be referred to the independent disciplinary committee who will decide in due course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The FAI have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland beat Cambodia in their final group stage match 4-1 to finish ahead of England. The young Lions beat Zimbabwe 2-0 in their final game.<\/p>\n<p>The new tournament is played in an eight-a-side format with smaller pitches and 20 minute halves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A match between Republic of Ireland and England at at FIFA&#8217;s new Under-15 World Cup has been abandoned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-666087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}