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Sat 08 Aug 2008Delaney focused on getting more tickets
INTERNATIONAL NEWSTHE FAI chief executive, John Delaney, has expressed satisfaction with the decision to move next week's game between Georgia and the Republic of Ireland to Mainz and revealed the association has sought to secure more than half the tickets available for the game from its counterpart in Tbilisi.
"I always felt the game would not be played in Georgia and we worked hard in the background with Uefa, Fifa and the Georgian Football Federation (GFF) to get the game moved," Delaney said yesterday.
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