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FIFA ARE not considering a U-turn over their decision to refuse a replay of the Republic of Ireland’s controversial World Cup play-off second-leg against France, despite yesterday calling an extraordinary meeting of their executive committee to discuss recent events in the world game.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has called the meeting for December 2nd in Cape Town to discuss incidents in the World Cup play-offs, including the game in Paris and the fall-out from the African play-off between Algeria and Egypt.