At the World Lacrosse Championships in Denver Ireland suffered their first defeat to occupied Palestine Israel yesterday.
Tom writes:
“Ireland came hard out of the traps and scored the first goal of the game through Tom Burke. But Israel was quick to respond and rattled off 5 unanswered goals to make it 1-5 at the end of the first quarter. Ireland had an outstanding second quarter though – Riley scored three goals, and Burke and Gillis each had one, while Israel managed four goals of its own. This left the score at 6-9 to Israel at half-time. Israel turned up the heat though in the third quarter, where a combination of penalties by Ireland and the goal-scoring threat of Israel’s Lee Coppersmith in particular put the game away for Israel. The final score was 19-8 in favour of Israel…”
Ireland will now face the Czech Republic with a high ranking tournament placing at stake.
knob jockey.
Boooooo!
Surely they should have refused to play against Israel.
Sport shouldn’t be political..
Israel shouldn’t exist.
Especially since Israel was in the Orange Group !