Alan Moore (sports administrator)

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Moore (left) with Alec Peters (right) in 2019

Alan Moore (born 1973) is a retired Irish sportsperson, sports journalist and administrator. Originally from Dublin in Ireland, Moore has lived in Russia since 2007,[1] and (as of 2022) was director of the International Affairs Office of the National University of Science and Technology MISiS in Moscow.[2][3] As of 2022, he was secretary of Moscow Shamrocks GAC and public relations officer for Gaelic Games Europe.[4][5]

## Early and personal life

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Moore lived until he was three years old on Dublin's South Circular Road before moving with his family to Corduff in North West Dublin.[6] Growing up in a GAA household,[1] he played for his local club St Brigid's GAA[7] and later for Naomh Moninne H.C. in Dundalk, where he also coached children's teams.[8][9] He later studied in University College Dublin.[2]

He self-published two books titled Danger, Kids! 1 and Danger, Kids! 2.[10][11][12][better source needed]

Moore has two children.[13]

## Academic career

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He is director of the International Office of National University of Science and Technology MISiS[2] and is an associate professor at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation,[14] having previously been director of the RSSU Centre of International Relations[15] and director of the Russian State Social University College from 2017 to 2020.[16]

In 2018 in Moscow, Moore participated in a panel discussion at an international forum on "Human Rights and Social Guarantees in the context of Challenges of the 21st Century: International and National Experience".[17] He was also a representative in 2018 at the "International Forum in Kirov: Inclusive Education in Higher Education Institutions",[18] and has moderated other university forums.[19]

## Sports career

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Moore played a range of sports growing up including soccer for a number of local amateur Dublin clubs including St. Mochta's FC.[20][better source needed] From 1996, he played professionally in Europe, North America and Saudi Arabia.[21][22] As a boxer, Moore featured for Maynooth University and University College Dublin.[19]

He moved into sports management and development where he founded Rugby Club Knin in Knin, Croatia.[23] While there, he organised a rugby union exhibition game in March 2007 in which the Croatia national rugby union team played an Irish "touring barbarians" team.[24] He has worked with a number of international sports people and teams,[25] including Vitalia Diatchenko and Marta Sirotkina.[26] He taught Gaelic football to members of the FC Lokomotiv Moscow youth team in 2016.[27] Moore was development officer and director of Maltese Premier League Club Floriana F.C. from 2008 to 2010.[28][29]

In 2019, Moore was coach of the Russian Native Ladies Gaelic Football at the Renault GAA World Games.[30][31]

## Journalism

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He is a sports journalist,[32] and since 2017 has produced and hosted "Capital Sports" on Capital FM in Moscow.[33] Former tennis player Ekaterina Bychkova co-hosted with Moore in 2017.[34]

His 2013 article, 'The Fear of the Known', discussed doping in tennis.[35]

Moore was quoted in articles in the Sydney Morning Herald and BuzzFeed in which he spoke about match-fixing in tennis.[36][37] He and his work has also appeared on news sources and websites like Off the Ball,[25] Чемпионат (сайт),[38] Sports Daily,[13] RTÉ 2fm,[39] and TRT World.[40]

In the buildup to the FIFA World Cup 2018, Moore decried Russia's lack of quality footballers and feared for their chances on Newstalk.[41] He used his role as a guest of several "radio and TV shows dedicated to the World Cup" to promote the development of the education system at Russian State Social University (RSSU College).[42] In the build up to the 2018 World Cup, he was part of a campaign to prepare visitors to Russia.[43] His "Champ Talks" project was taken to the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center and involved a discussion forum on topics related to sports, education and society.[44][45]

## Controversy

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In September 2020, Moore published an article on backpagefootball.com in which he discussed the misuse of caffeine and other substances as performance-enhancing substances (PEDs).[46] In the article, relying only on an unnamed "source close to the club", Moore claimed that 22 players out of 35 players on the Liverpool F.C. squad were asthmatic.[46] Moore followed-up with a further article, in January 2021, where he alleged that these reputed asthmatic diagnoses allowed Liverpool to obtain "Therpatic Use Exemptions" (TUE) for players to use asthmatic inhalers and thereby bypass sports doping controls.[47] Moore's claims went "viral" and the "wild Liverpool asthma inhaler conspiracy theory" was covered in several sources.[48][49][50] The head of the Exercise Respiratory Clinic at the University of Kent, Professor John Dickinson, disputed the claims that inhaler misuse by a non-asthmatic footballer could lead to improved physical performance. Dickinson joined a BBC podcast titled "Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory" in August 2022.[51] In the podcast, Dickinson and journalist Mike Wendling reviewed Moore's claims. Wendling discussed Moore's social media commentary, describing it as broadly pro-Kremlin and a source of unreliable misinformation. The claim of asthmatic and inhaler misuse by Liverpool F.C. was "debunk[ed]" as "spurious rumours" by the BBC podcast contributors.[52]

In March 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia bombed a children and maternity hospital in Mariupol resulting in at least three deaths, including a child.[5] The Russian embassy in London claimed that footage of a pregnant woman at the scene of the bombing was staged by a beauty blogger. The claim was repeated on Twitter by Moore, who tweeted that "The girl being carried from the rubble is a blogger who came to the hospital for a 'shoot'". In another tweet, Moore referenced "the faked maternity hospital victim" while noting that "this has to be the worst time to want to believe in news reporting". The tweets were subsequently deleted and Moore stated that he did not wish to comment specifically on them, telling The Irish Times that "War has to stop, nobody wants war, nobody should die for oil, for politics . . . War is wrong, people need to start speaking".[5] Moore had previously stated that some Russians were "unhappy" that "Putin took the decision to invade their neighbours".[53]

## References

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1. ^ a b Alan Moore (19 September 2016). "Ирландец, который болеет за "Локомотив"". fclm.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 17 August 2021.
2. ^ a b c "Alan Moore will Manage International Academic Mobility at NUST MISIS". En.misis.ru. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
3. ^ "В ИГУ прошло первое заседание Международной школы преподавателей РКИ". isu.ru (in Russian). Irkutsk State University. 21 March 2022.
4. ^ "Committee". moscowshamrocks. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
5. ^ a b c "GAA officer repeats Russian claims of 'fake' hospital bombing victim". irishtimes.com. Irish Times. 11 March 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
6. ^ Alan Moore (6 February 2021). "WTS 226: Alan Moore". wtspod.com.[better source needed]
7. ^ "Katrina Wagstaff: From Russia with a love of GAA". irishtimes.com. Irish Times. 25 July 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2021. "Alan Moore says: "I grew up playing with St Brigid's, some of the coaches there now were my coaches when I was playing""[better source needed]
8. ^ "Naomh Moninne head to Croatia". The Argus. 9 April 2004.
9. ^ "Gaelic Games : Around The Counties Compiled By Colm O'Donovan". Independent News & Media. 18 February 2004.
10. ^ "Danger, Kids!". Amazon.com. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
11. ^ "Reviews - Danger, Kids! 1 by Alan Patrick". goodreads.com.
12. ^ "Kindle Store - Kindle eBooks - Danger, Kids! 2 Kindle Edition". amazon.com.
13. ^ a b Alan Moore (2017). "Football | Me and Russian football". Sportsdaily.ru. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
14. ^ "Департамент управления бизнесом - Международная научно-практическая конференция "Теория и практика: проблемы и перспективы"". Fa.ru. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
15. ^ "Contacts". en.misis.ru. Retrieved Jan 3, 2021.
16. ^ "Alan Moore shared his thoughts with international media". rgsu.net.
17. ^ "27.11.BROCHURE Program with English translation" (PDF). soc-education.ru. Institute of Continuing Professional Education for Social Workers. 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
18. ^ "The International Forum in Kirov: Inclusive Education in Higher Education Institutions". hedclub.com. Retrieved Jan 3, 2021.
19. ^ a b "Alan Moore (Moderator)". uk-russia-alliance.ru.
20. ^ Alan Moore. "On trial: Inside football's meat market". backpagefootball.com.
21. ^ "Жизнь Нового Спортивного Директора "динамо" Бувача: Причина Ухода От Клоппа, Пиво Для Болельщика И Предложение "зенита"". matchtv.ru. 3 February 2020.
22. ^ "Alan Moore". passportmagazine.ru. Archived from the original on 13 April 2018.
23. ^ "Rugby Club Knin Prepares For Match Against Sisak - Other Sports - Sports - Dalje.com". arhiva.dalje.com.
24. ^ "Knin: Ragbi za Dan sv. Patricka". vecernji.hr (in Croatian). 17 March 2007. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
25. ^ a b Alan Moore (7 January 2021). "The History Of Football In Russia | Irish Influence, Gulags, Stalin And The 'people's Club'". otbsports.com.
26. ^ "Ирландия поднимет российский теннис". RUSSIANIRELAND - Voice of Russian society in Ireland. 20 May 2011.
27. ^ "Мастер-класс от ирландца". fclm.ru. 12 July 2016.
28. ^ "Roddy toasts future with a ball O' Malta". Irish Examiner. 1 July 2009.
29. ^ "Floriana In discussions to sign a Russian striker next month". independent.com.mt. The Malta Independent.
30. ^ "Russian team on GAA World Games". RUSSIANIRELAND - Voice of Russian society in Ireland. 2019-07-23. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
31. ^ "У России есть женская сборная по гэльскому футболу. Объясняем, что это такое и почему это круто!". Sports.ru. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
32. ^ Alan Moore. "Alan Moore - Back Page Football". backpagefootball.com.
33. ^ "Capital Sports". SoundCloud.
34. ^ "Bychkova-Cornet II, Tennis Star Interviews, European Football and Celebration Music". soundcloud.com. 2017.
35. ^ Alan Moore (3 February 2013). "The fear of the known - drugs and matchfixing in football - Back Page Football". backpagefootball.com.
36. ^ "Match-Fixers Targeted Half My Players, Says Tennis Manager". buzzfeednews.com. 15 March 2016.
37. ^ Pearce, Linda (16 March 2016). "Tennis Integrity Unit defends itself against 'Italian Job' match-fixing allegations". The Sydney Morning Herald.
38. ^ Alan Moore. "Алан Мур - Авторы". www.championat.com.
39. ^ "The Boy in Blue, Rangnick's Locomotiv Legacy and Sports Fuel for Winer". rte.ie. 2 December 2021. "Marie is joined by [..] Alan Moore on Rangnick's Locomotiv Legacy"
40. ^ Alan Moore. "Russia 2018: Is Russia ready for the World Cup? - Interview with Alan Moore". Russia 2018: Is Russia ready for the World Cup? - Interview with Alan Moore. Retrieved Jan 3, 2021.
41. ^ Alan Moore. "Team 33 | "It's probably the worst group of players Russia could pick from"". 98fm.com.
42. ^ Alan Moore. "Alan Moore: "We foster and educate, we inspire and support"". en.rgsu.net.
43. ^ Welcome to Russia l РФС ТВ. YouTube. Event occurs at 16:38. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
44. ^ "Директор Колледжа РГСУ Алан Мур - о важности спорта в жизни студентов". rgsu.net (in Russian). 22 March 2018.
45. ^ "Известные спортсмены и тренеры вступят в публичную дискуссию с посетителями Еврейского музея". stmegi.com (in Russian). 17 April 2018.
46. ^ a b "Why Liverpool won't win the Premier League this season". backpagefootball.com. 3 September 2020.
47. ^ "Sure They're All At It – Liverpool in recovery (Part 1)". backpagefootball.com. 15 January 2021.
48. ^ "Ben Davies sparks wild Liverpool asthma inhaler conspiracy theory". thickaccent.com. 8 July 2022.
49. ^ "The Liverpool FC Asthma Conspiracy Theory". worldinsport.com. 12 July 2022.
50. ^ "(Images) Liverpool fans go wild as Ben Davies is 'spotted' carrying an inhaler during pre-season training in Kirkby". empireofthekop.com. 7 July 2022.
51. ^ "Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory". bbc.co.uk. 6 August 2022.
52. ^ "More or Less: Behind the Stats - Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory". bbc.co.uk. 6 August 2020. "We debunk spurious rumours that Liverpool FC use asthma medication to enhance performance"
53. ^ Watters, Andy (4 March 2022). "'People here were in shock when the invasion started,' says Moscow-based GAA stalwart as clubs support Ukraine appeal". irishnews.com. Retrieved 3 April 2022.