Emergency meeting for FIFA

FIFA have called for an emergency meeting to discuss various incidents that have happend recently in the World Cup play-offs.

Even though a replay is out of the question, the conroversial winner by France versus Ireland will be one of the matters.

Also crowd trouble before and after the sudden death match with Egypt and Algeria will be discussed.

There's also a new match-fixing scandal gathering pace with over 200 suspect matches, plus the Iraqi government has suspended it's FA's work.

The meeting will take place on 2 December in Cape Town, where the executive committee members were already due to meet to decide the seedings of the World Cup group stage draw. The draw will be made on 4 December, as mentioned before.

This kinds of emergency, or as others call it extraordinary, meetings are unusual for FIFA. But even though there's a risk of overshadowing the World Cup draw, no doubt the FIFA have to discuss the for mentioned topics to protect the beautiful game.