Peter Meffe

@Prominent_Bryan Where is the Red Line in VAR frame? Did you erase it?

Some soccer purists will say only American noobs want this to change but that's not true. I have watched soccer weekly all my life and I think this shouldn't be offside. It just isn't what the original intent of the law was Bring on the Wenger offside!

@RonaldoW7_ Nope 👎

Ronaldo’s goal was onside. They added 18 minutes of stoppage time, giving Croatia every opportunity to score. But sure… FIFA “rigged” it for Ronaldo. 😂😂😂

Two hundred and fifty years ago, 56 men gathered in Philadelphia and committed treason against the most powerful empire on Earth. Representing 13 colonies, they were landowners, entrepreneurs, politicians and others who had become gripped by new ideas flowing from Enlightenment thinkers and Christian teaching. Those convictions led them to start a war no sane person believed they could win — and what happened inside the Pennsylvania State House did not just create a nation. It helped create the political world we still live in today.

@a5medv Guy was off side period!

هدف كرواتيا الملغي بداعي التسلل بالامس كانت الكرة في الاساس عائدة من مدافع البرتغال كرواتيا سُرقت، اكبر فضيحة في تاريخ كاس العالم الحديث

@AfricaFirsts Nope

We are all supporting Cape Verde 🇨🇻 against Argentina today. Aren't we?

@l3d1c Drama 🎭 It’s fine!

FIFA's chip in the ball and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

@schadjoe Why?

What offside would be and not be if Arsène Wenger, FIFA's chief of global football development, gets his way. The change effectively means there has to be daylight between attacker and defender for an offside offense. Otherwise, all those goals count.

@l3d1c Why is everyone talking about this both ways? Nothing changes the reality that the Croatian player was completely offside whomever the ball last touched!

🇭🇷 Croatia got eliminated from the World Cup by a closed-source sensor. FIFA says the Kinexon chip in the Trionda "proved" Matanović touched the ball. Absolute disgrace. What actually happened: they ran signal processing over 500Hz IMU data from a 14-gram sensor and isolated a supposed contact spike from thousands of noisy samples dominated by bladder harmonics, panel flex, spin wobble and stadium micro-tremors, then nullified one of the most dramatic World Cup equalizers in history via spectral analysis of what is essentially glorified noise. Oh, and it gets better. They moved the chip this year. Back in 2022, it used to hang suspended in the center of the ball. Now it's glued into the sidewall of ONE panel, with counterweights stuffed into the other three so the ball doesn't fly like a shopping cart. So sensitivity now depends on which side of the ball the "contact" happens relative to the sensor. Totally fine basis for ending a nation's tournament. An IMU measures acceleration. Somewhere in a proprietary pipeline, a threshold decides which acceleration counts as "touch." That threshold is unpublished. The false positive rate is unpublished. The calibration data is unpublished. The patents are literally still in their secrecy window. And FIFA owns the raw data, so nobody can independently audit the trace that ended Modrić's last World Cup. And we're all supposed to accept a "heartbeat graphic" on the broadcast as if that settles anything. Since we sadly all know you won't ever admit your crimes or remove this technology for good, at least open source the detection pipeline, @FIFAcom! Publish the thresholds, the error rates, the raw IMU trace from last night. If the tech is right, transparency costs nothing, right?

@Lemonbriz @joe_warmington The game has a soul for certain, it’s called Fair Play… And on that note it means The Right Call by the officials is in order! How they get there is not the issue but making the correct decision is! If you don’t have rules the result is war and that’s why sports were created!

🚨 Luka Modrić on Croatia’s controversial last-minute disallowed goal against Portugal: 🗣️ “This is football. Not a courtroom, not a lab where we freeze every frame and argue over centimetres. Tonight we gave everything against a very good Portugal team. We were still fighting deep into stoppage time. The boys kept believing, kept pushing, and when that ball went in through Josko we thought we had it — equaliser, extra time, everything still possible. Then VAR comes in and takes it away because of a touch earlier in the move. I respect the officials, I really do. But the rule is clear and obvious error. Was this one? These little things, these marginal calls where players are fighting for every inch… that’s football. That’s what defenders and attackers do every single day. If we start ruling out goals like that in the last seconds because of a split-second touch or a shoulder or a toe, then what are we left with? The game loses its soul. The emotion, the chaos, the moments that make people fall in love with football — they get taken away by technology that was only supposed to fix the obvious mistakes. We accept that sometimes the ball doesn’t go your way. We’ve done it our whole careers. But when the decision feels like it rewrites the last chapter of the match instead of just correcting something clear, it hurts. Not just us in the dressing room, but everyone who was watching and living every second with us. Portugal deserved to go through, they’re a strong side and they showed it. But nights like this make you wonder where the game is heading. We play with our hearts, we fight until the whistle, and then one review decides everything. That’s not protecting football anymore. That’s changing it into something else.”

@smyyguy That is not the real VAR offside picture! Regardless the offside rule states hands and arms are not counted in offside rulings.

feels like a pretty dumb rule if its a penalty when the attacking player is in a more athletic position and has both feet onside

@PabloViruega That’s not the rules! It was offside according to fifa rules!

Esta toma es clara donde el #20 de Croacia no toca el balón, no cambia la dirección del balón, quien SI lo toca es #13 de Portugal por lo que no había offside …. ¿Qué opinan?

@Yam_Nivek 🤣

@ShaziGoalie It’s completely worth it so the haphazard politicians don’t spend it on their ridiculous wasteful personal agenda that does nothing for the people!

Toronto taxpayers are spending roughly $380M to host 6 World Cup matches. That's about $64M per game. Tonight's Portugal 🇵🇹 vs. Croatia 🇭🇷 match is likely Cristiano Ronaldo's final World Cup appearance in Toronto and still has resale tickets listed for $2,300 to $7,500+. Is this one match worth $64M to taxpayers?

@UtdMaI Nothing other than being a better football player!

If Kylian Mbappé wins another FIFA World Cup, he’ll have more World Cups than Lionel Messi. Cristiano Ronaldo already has more UEFA Champions League titles than Messi. So serious question: what exactly does Messi have over the other GOAT contenders? And please don’t say Ballon d’Or…. ending a GOAT debate with journalist votes is hilarious. 😭

@MatchReportH Idiot! It was important call to both treats not just yours! Btw if you could see that as off side then thank goodness you have no input! I was rooting for US and even I can say it’s correct call!

🚨🇺🇸 Tim Howard: “That Goal Should Have Stood!” “I’ve watched the replay several times, and I just don’t think Christian Pulisic is offside. If you slow it down and look at the best angle, ‘Captain America’ is nowhere near as far ahead as people are making out. For me, that’s a legitimate goal. “The assistant made the call in real time, but these are exactly the moments VAR is supposed to get right. If there’s any doubt at all, the benefit has to go to the attacker. I don’t see clear evidence that Pulisic is offside, and without that certainty, you cannot take away such an important goal. “These are World Cup knockout games where every decision carries enormous weight. Disallowing a goal like that changes the entire complexion of the match. From what I’ve seen, the United States should be celebrating a second goal, not debating another controversial VAR decision. Captain America did everything right—I believe that goal should have stood.” #USABIH

Okay, who did this?

@ShaneRyanHere No it’s not… not an opponent in sight bro!

72nd minute, Bellingham covers his mouth with his hand, which is an automatic red card now under FIFA rules. Not called. One of the biggest missed calls in World Cup history potentially. The Hand (to Mouth) of God

@MadelnCanada Are you on coke?

Should the Toronto Raptors go out and get LeBron James to come play with Kawhi Leonard? 🇨🇦

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