It's actually a whole lot easier to go down the route which thousands of fans from all backgrounds are following right now, which is just go to the match and enjoy the bloody football.
I've posted it here before, but people have got to realise that not only is it physically impossible to come to one single arrangement which suits absolutely everybody re. flags and anthems and all the other peripheral issues, but (imo), it is not actually even desirable, since to attempt to do so would only be to hold the game hostage to purely political considerations, so that all that it takes is for one disaffected or mischievous or extremist party to complain that they are dissatisfied/outraged/discriminated against, for the "arrangements" to fall apart.
Instead, we presently have a set-up which is recognised by all neutral observers such as FIFA and UEFA as being tolerably acceptable to all reasonable people, so that no football fan need be deterred from supporting the team for reasons of race, colour, religion etc
That is not the same as saying that everyone "enjoys" or agrees with all of these issues as being perfectly to their liking (personally, I would like to see GSTQ replaced by a distinctively NI anthem for example); however the key term is "reasonable".
And for anyone who wishes to see what actually happens at a match at Windsor Park, they will find that the audience is made up of people of all backgrounds, none of whom has been deterred by reason of that background, but all of whom are there merely to watch 11 guys from their own wee part of the world take on 11 guys from some other part of the world.
Sometimes this experience is desperate (Iceland) and sometimes it is glorious (Spain), but no-one says these days that they wouldn't go back because they couldn't stomach a two minute anthem before the kick-off, or the fact that some of the fans were waving different flags from that which hangs from the lamppost outside their house.
Which is what "Football For All" is all about - simply, it is for all those Northern Ireland fans who want to support Northern Ireland. If some other people don't wish to do so, for whatever reason or none, that is their prerogative.
In the meantime, the rest of us will just get on with watching the bloody game...
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