Jim Boyce
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"James Richard Wesley Boyce" Order of the British Empire/OBE is a current Vice-President of FIFA. He was the president of Northern Ireland's football organising body, the Irish Football Association/IFA, from 1995 to 2007.

Boyce played for Ballymena Cricket Club during the 1970s. He was team captain between 1974 and 1978.

Boyce is a supporter of Cliftonville F.C. where he was Chairman until 1998.

Boyce was one of a number of FIFA officials to call for the publication of the Garcia Report into allegations of corruption surrounding Russia and Qatar's bids for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups.

He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to football in Northern Ireland.

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Hopefully we will have a meeting with the British associations and this item will be top of the agenda.

It's a terrific honor to be associated with this business. It makes all of us feel a sense of history as we work with this living product.

There are major problems with the terms and we have given them until this weekend to respond.

Unless it is a lucrative offer, we are not interested in playing.

I'm confident with some education, kids will do just fine. It's up to parents and educators to help them become aware.

It didn't hit me right away. I had to have someone else kind of take a garbage can cover, hit me on the head and say, ?Did you realize what just happened?' It was the first time an American company had won that category.

I just wish I had a way of hearing what these walls could tell us. There's a lot of history in this product.

As I said at tonight's meeting, no final decision has been made.

I appeal to my colleagues in England, Scotland and Wales to give serious thought to this matter.