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@FutOffsides The idea that the defender did not deliberately play the ball is why everyone thinks FIFA is corrupt as fuck. It was obviously deliberate. It was headed towards his chest and he lowered his head to head it, and did. This interpretation is why people think it's about corruption

✅ Correct VAR intervention in the Portugal vs. Croatia match. ⚽️ The sensor inside the ball detected a slight touch by Matanović when the ball was over his head. 📸 Pašalić was in a clear offside position when this happened. 👉The subsequent touch by the defender is NOT deliberate play and, therefore, doesn't play the Croatian midfielder onside.

@t42222 FIFA's own rulebook says it's only a touch if it changes trajectory or spin and that grazing hair doesn't count. Yet they seem to have installed an ultra sensitive sensor? Also weirdly no sensor blip when the ball literally is headed by the defender.

Everyone going insane in my comments because “the game was decided on a technicality” FIFA decided to put a chip in the ball to objectively show the referee if it was touched or not. You’re mad because they used technology to 100% guarantee it was touched?

@seeyamonday1 @t42222 If it was the other way we'd have seen an entertaining extra time period and get a more conclusive ending.

@t42222 You would be crying if it was the other way. Stop it

Exactly. It was objectively offside. Not up for debate. The technology showed it was OFFSIDE. Do I believe we should have this much tech? No. But that’s what we have. FIFA didn’t want teams winning games unfairly. This is fair, whether you like it or not.

@t42222 Now show the Portuguese player heading the ball after this touch...

@JK_Lundblad @Noahpinion Because immigrants aren't created equal. Some bring wealth with them, some don't. Some create businesses and jobs, others scam and sit around on welfare. It's disingenuous to use one study about one group in one place and generalize it because immigrants are not all equal.

Correct. The arrival of immigrants tends to create more jobs for Americans: best not fall for the Lump of Labor Fallacy. A famous study, for example, examined the effect of the “Mariel Boatlift,” the mass emigration of Cubans to Miami, Florida, in 1980. This event abruptly increased Miami’s labor supply by 7 percent, yet there was no discernible impact on wages or unemployment. Similarly, after the collapse of the USSR, mass migration of Jews into Israel swelled the population by 12 percent with no negative impact on local employment. In fact, the opposite seems true: immigration appears to be positive-sum concerning employment. One study found, for example, that with every one immigrant that arrived in the United States between 1980 and 2000, 1.2 new jobs were created. A study examining the effects of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, for example, found that it depressed the economy of Western US states for generations. The white American laborers, the intended beneficiaries of the Act, were left worse off: the act(s) reduced the growth of the white labor supply in Western states by 28 percent and lowered their occupational income scores.

Immigrants generally don't crowd out American workers

@Verbalfury @CanadasLeafs That he was trying to duck is a retarded take. "Trying to duck" lands perfectly on top of his head. They're professional footballers, they can judge the trajectory of a ball. The ball was too low to duck under but just high enough to head.

@CanadasLeafs The decision hinged on the intent of the touch from Veiga. It looked like he was trying to duck, hence it was ruled unintentional. But obviously fans will have biased interpretations, especially in the moment. This isn’t surprising or new.

This notion that the Croatia - Portugal game had a “controversial” ending is quite ridiculous. The Croat player was not just offside, he was so far behind the Portuguese line, he may have been in a different time zone.

@CanadasLeafs You're retarded. The controversy is that Fifa is counting the ball grazing the attacker's head as "playing" it but not counting the defender literally moving his head underneath to fully head it as "playing" it.

@Piquelme21 Love that Fifa counts it grazing his hair but apparently not the defender literally heading the ball...

A rule is a rule The Croatian player said he felt a small something touch him This is the reason we use technology - everyone would be screaming had it been obvious and missed

@LukasHozda Lisp, Ruby, Smalltalk. Maybe Haskell. Rust is just writing .unwrap() everywhere and setting your CPU on fire.

Rust and Lisp

@ZwebackHD This doesn't matter at all. It's established, it hits the attacker. And then the defender obviously heads it, which should play the attacker onside. But the referee inexplicably decides the defender didn't mean to head it? Excuse me?

Look, I love Croatia. I love Ronaldo but let's get something clear: the call was right. The chip technology in the ball confirmed that the ball hit Croatia #20's head which means Croatia #15 is in an offside position. That's the ONLY thing that matters in the situation. Let's keep enjoying this incredible tournament that gives us so much joy!! 🇵🇹❤️🇭🇷

@Cietauu @onysera1 @FutSheriff The definition of "playing" the ball is the same for attackers and defenders. If the attacker heading the ball is playing it, the defender heading it is also playing in.

@onysera1 @FutSheriff It’s not about playing the ball. Veiga never had possession of the ball so it didn’t reset the offside. Same thing as a gk deflecting a shot onto an offside player and he scores, but it’s still offside. The keeper intentionally “played” the ball but was never in possession if it

I don’t know why people are crying so much. We have the technology to help, and if the chip detected contact with the ball, then it was offside. It’s an incredibly close call and impossible to judge from the images alone, but that’s exactly what the chip is there for. This is from a Messi fan btw

@desconfiad @CroatianSoccer He lowered his head to intentionally head the ball. It is considered making a play on it. The retarded ref just said he was "ducking" out of the way.

@CroatianSoccer If Messi and his team can get calls. Why cant we? Also that is not considered making a play on the ball.

You’re telling us that Veiga didn’t make a play on the ball? Alright.

@Footballtweet 13 for Portugal headed the ball. He even lowered his head to make contact. Him playing the ball plays the Croatian back onside.

The Croatia disallowed goal 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗗: This is the only image that matters. The snicko technology goes off at the exact moment Matanović heads the ball. So the Croatian player DID touch it, and Mario Pašalić was OFFSIDE. 🇭🇷🚩 It was the correct call.

@TheAthleticFC For a supposed football account you should know intent isn't a factor in determining if a foul occurred...

On the basis of the images made available to referee Raphael Claus, the decision to send off USA forward Folarin Balogun is understandable. From the vantage point presented, via slow motion and still images, the threshold of serious foul play is met. This challenge did appear to endanger the safety of an opponent. Those ensconced in FIFA’s refereeing hub may see that as an open and shut case. Yet to most observers and many of those who have played the game, at any level at all, this was a miscarriage of justice. To show the challenge to the referee at a different speed to the incident he originally adjudicated upon is to warp and distort the judgment, removing context from the call. Slowed down, an accidental collision can resemble a premeditated challenge. A bad challenge can become a horror challenge. In the case of Balogun, the freeze frame and slow-motion images eliminated the essential context. This was a simple ball played forward by Antonee Robinson, where two players jostled for position, and as Bosnia and Herzegovina defender Tarik Muharemovic got in front of Balogun, the forward, off balance, landed in an unfortunate — but clearly unintentional manner — on the ankle of his opponent. In football’s history, it has sometimes required major incidents at big international tournaments to accelerate change. FIFA must use Balogun’s injustice as a line in the sand, ending once and for all the unfair and disfiguring use of slow-motion and freeze frames. 📝 @AdamCrafton_ bit.ly/3SFzYGl

@DKlagstad @visegrad24 Yes, the fact he was serious is why it's funny.

@dismalcode @visegrad24 I think he was actually serious But it came off like he was mocking them

Pro-Palestinian activist from Kreuzberg, Germany, performs a newly discovered street ritual using a rug while wearing a keffiyeh.

@Humblewank @ZainSM8 @visegrad24 They understand it, they just pretend not to because they know the west is full of useful idiots.

@ZainSM8 @visegrad24 Nah, Hamas members not children. If you don't want to get killed in a war, don't start a war. Most people know this, islamists have a hard time understanding it.

Exactly 1000 days have now passed since the October 7th Massacre. Thousands of Islamist terrorists and Gazan civilians broke into Israel that day and murdered 1000+ Israelis. One of them was 22-y-old Shani Louk at the Nova Festival. May all the victims rest in peace

@stevemagness So in which sport is stomping on someone's ankle while wearing cleats acceptable? Even in hockey you can't do that and they wear a ton of body armour...

@RealLeafPJ Assimilation is good and how I remember our immigration system being years ago. Now certain groups just live in enclaves, refuse to assimilate and take advantage. We need to go back to a system that's sustainable and create a culture people actually want to assimilate into.

Assimilation is possible, and is better than radical forms of remigration The Canadian identity is bigger than just ethnicity, but one of the values and history that Britain, France, and Indigenous gave us Immigrants who assimilate into Canada are a good thing for our country

@JeffWaddilove Soccer used to not have offside. It led to basically both teams having some players camp near the goal and the ball just being hoofed from side to side with no midfield play. Literally why the rule was invented.

Offsides is precisely why Americans could give a fuck about soccer. Lamest rule in all of sports.