A reporter uses his cell phone as he walks past a FIFA logo in front of FIFA headquarters before a press conference of the FIFA Executive Committee in Zurich October 29, 2007. REUTERS/Michael Buholzer
ZURICH (Reuter) - FIFA have reversed their decision to allow Palestine to host Thursday’s World Cup qualifier against Saudi Arabia at home, ordered that it be played on neutral territory and postponed the game until Monday.
FIFA said on Wednesday that their emergency committee, headed by Asian Football Confederation president Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain, had also ordered Palestine's game at home to Malaysia next week to be played elsewhere.
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