James Richard Wesley Boyce OBEis a current Vice-President of FIFA. He was the president of Northern Ireland's football organising body, the IFA, from 1995 to 2007... (wikipedia)
Unless it is a lucrative offer, we are not interested in playing.
There are major problems with the terms and we have given them until this weekend to respond.
I appeal to my colleagues in England, Scotland and Wales to give serious thought to this matter,
It didn't hit me right away. I had to have someone else kind of take a garbage can cover, hit me on the head and say, ?Did you realize what just happened?' It was the first time an American company had won that category.
Unfortunately, we cannot agree to their contractual terms over television rights and other issues,
As I said at tonight's meeting, no final decision has been made.
It's a terrific honor to be associated with this business. It makes all of us feel a sense of history as we work with this living product.
I just wish I had a way of hearing what these walls could tell us. There's a lot of history in this product.
I'm confident with some education, kids will do just fine. It's up to parents and educators to help them become aware.
Hopefully we will have a meeting with the British associations and this item will be top of the agenda,