@AsadSiddiiqui @TeraSol18 @KillaKreww On what planet were England lucky? Mexico had a second half non penalty xg of 0.01. Mexico did absolutely nothing with their possession and deserved to lose. 11 vs 11 it wouldn't have been close.
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@UrbanExplorer00
Use this account mostly to follow the news. Football, travel, MMA, cycling. 🏴
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@TeraSol18 @KillaKreww England was lucky that day bro 😹😹
In the 2nd half Mexico dominated the entire game the red card completely changed the game
England was lucky that they got the Penalty
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SteveWillDoIt managed to LOSE $4 MILLION in 1 week from betting on the World Cup and had to sell $1 Million worth of watches after going into DEBT 🤯💀💰
-$1.6 Million on Mexico to beat England
-400K on tickets & flights
-$800K on Cristiano Ronaldo to score vs Spain
-$420K on the USA to beat Belgium
-$400K on Argentina to beat Egypt & Colombia to beat Switzerland
-$250K on Norway to beat England
Total loss: -$3.87 Million
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@scareyjoe Just don't like opposing England especially when I've had a good WC lol
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@UrbanExplorer00 I don't bet much but on a £1 stake I'd be inclined to let it run.
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What would people do with this? Not touching it before France vs Spain as I have both covered plus Mbappe for golden boot. Assuming France qualify with Mbappe scoring and they offer £80> I'm not sure I fancy touching Argentina vs England. Logically we win but FIFA want them.🤔
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@mttjon @nytimes @TheAthleticFC I just don't see who has been good or important enough to justify it. No goalkeepers have been impressive. England and Argentina have awful defences whilst Spain's record is more about possession than defence. France haven't been threatened.
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@UrbanExplorer00 @nytimes @TheAthleticFC I’m just saying that nearly all of these top ten are the goal scorers so it’d be nice to see a bit more a diverse mix here
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From @TheAthleticFC: Ahead of the World Cup semifinals, we have revisited our rankings of the top players at this summer's tournament. What do you think about the top 10? nyti.ms/4wEoj9m
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@mttjon @nytimes @TheAthleticFC None of the top 4 has had a single signature game where they've saved their team and all have made errors even if not punished. I'd love to see a keeper in the running but don't see how it's justifiable this tournament.
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@UrbanExplorer00 @nytimes @TheAthleticFC Given you’ll always remember the mistake which led to a goal then sure but some have had great games too
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@COYSJordan94 Yeah I'd argue he's been more important than any other player in the ko rounds and even better than Mbappe
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@UrbanExplorer00 And Bellingham has got more and more influential.
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Anyone putting Messi above Bellingham clearly hasn't been watching the World Cup and has just ranked based on reputation. Since the group stage Messi has become less and less influential as the opposition got tougher and his age has started to be felt. x.com/nytimes/status…
The New York Times@nytimes
From @TheAthleticFC: Ahead of the World Cup semifinals, we have revisited our rankings of the top players at this summer's tournament. What do you think about the top 10? nyti.ms/4wEoj9m
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Objectively it should be Bellingham vs Mbappe for player of the tournament depending on which country wins it. If neither wins then I guess they have to give it to someone else, but those two have been the best two by a long distance.
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@mttjon @nytimes @TheAthleticFC None of the top teams goalkeepers have been busy/good enough to justify it tbh
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@nytimes @TheAthleticFC Nearly all goal scorers
Needs more balance and a goalkeeper in the top ten
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@YSLStLaurantDon @jamiebennett_r @StanCollymore How many away qualifiers did he do with Norway? Obviously none cos he's not Norwegian or a real fan. Just an attention seeking cunt.
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@jamiebennett_r @StanCollymore nobody’s being shafted. this guy is dedicated to the game. i respect the commitment and his passion for supporting Norway. how is he any worse than the suits that show up to the spernabeu?
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John Smith retweetledi
Saw more and more of these cunts at games. Appeal to the youth apparently and are "vital" to engaging with that audience.
While top cappers Dave, Juan, Dieter, Jean Paul ( apologies for the stereotypical names to make my point) are at home having watched every game in a qualification 4 year cycle.
It's a fucking scandal really, especially as these idiots are getting freebies in corporate at stadiums way beyond ticket only.
EPL Bible@EPLBible
Imagine saving up money all year, budgeting maybe even selling personal things All to be sat in front of a streamer at a World Cup Quarter Final These guys are a cancer to our sport. 🤮
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Whether it affects the performance of their national football team or not, issues like this are the real reason why those fake American born again Christian cults are such a danger to Latin America.
France Résistance@FranceRsistanc1
🚨👁🗨🇧🇷Le principal candidat à la présidence du Brésil, Flávio Bolsonaro, déclare que s'il est élu, il transformera son pays en « royaume d'Israël »🇮🇱 Il affirme que les 120 000 Juifs vivant au Brésil seront mieux pris en charge que ses propres citoyens. x.com/ShadowofEzra/s…
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If you've travelled South America you can spot the difference a mile off. I landed in BA from Bogota before at the same time a flight from Lima. You could see a mile off who was Argentinian, who was Colombian/Ecuadorian and who was Peruvian and who the gringos were.
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Such an ignorant Western viewpoint to see Argentinians and Peruvians as the same ethnicity. Argentinians are mostly Europeans with some native blood. Peruvians are 5ft native Americans with very few white Europeans. Totally different. Like comparing the Japanese to Nepalese.
Melissa Chen@MsMelChen
The World Cup has brutally exposed how shallow the "racial solidarity" framework actually is. Peruvians are openly declaring they'll root for Harry Kane and England in the semi-finals against Argentina because of very specific, very deep historical grudges: Peru backed Argentina during the Falklands conflict decades ago, only to feel betrayed when Argentina supplied arms to Ecuador during the 1995 Cenepa War, plus the ongoing cultural jab of Argentines using "peruano" as a casual insult. In other words, there is absolutely no such thing as "Latino solidarity." The whole construct is promoted by leftists in the West and astroturfed hard on Ivy League campuses by actually ignoring the complexities of history. Shared skin tone and shared language don't magically make you into a brotherhood. Ironically, they promote exactly the same race-only lens championed by race realists on the right. The matchups have been an excellent way to dig deeper into history. I learned for example, that Mexico has zero beef with England because the British sold them arms during their fight for independence from Spain. Turns out fellow Europeans did more to screw each other's colonial empires and decolonize each other than the subjects ever managed. So it's funny when it gets weaponized by today's third worlders. The ruse becomes clear when you see that they only care about colonialism of a *specific* (read: European white) kind. Everyone else from the Ottomans to the Arabs to the Chinese get a pass. Populations mix, empires rise and fall, alliances flip, specific betrayals get remembered for generations, and national identity or even regional club loyalty almost always beats abstract racial essentialism. I've seen people online treat the World Cup like a racial census. Black fans refusing to back any remaining team because they are "white colonizers." White fans abandoning their own squads for having too many non-white players. Cheering for matching melanin levels and broad ancestral categories is just dumb. There is no such thing as black solidarity, Western/white solidarity, and there's CERTAINLY no such thing as Asian solitary (lol) and Latino solidarity. This is all just activist nonsense. Yes people are tribal, but the tribes are usually smaller, older, and more specific than skin color or continent. History is messy, grudge-filled, and gloriously complicated.
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@WhistleBlowerDK @spurscc He didn't commit a yellow card offence and the Paraguayan clearly did so logically it would be checked if this policy outside of the laws of the game really exists
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@UrbanExplorer00 @spurscc How do you know what the yellow card was given for? Was it for the “push”? Or for the confrontational unsporting behavior?
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Putting point A with point C rather sums up your argument. Things have been consistent. It’s understanding the nuances and considerations.
Point B is moot.
John Smith@UrbanExplorer00
Worst things about this World Cup officiating are that there's A: no consistency in decisions B: FIFA are not following their own VAR laws correctly and C: no fans seem to understand the laws and are arguing over irrelevant nonsense. FIFA have totally lost control of everything.
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@WhistleBlowerDK @spurscc Then why was Olise's among others not reviewed? As I wrote in the initial post the inconsistency of refereeing is ridiculous. Best example is watching Morocco v the Netherlands then Morocco v Canada. Completely different refereeing standards and card usage in the same tournament.
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@spurscc @UrbanExplorer00 It wasn’t. It was about card incorrectly shown that was reviewed.
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The woke mob are beyond braindead at times. Not difficult to Google what happened to Argentina's black population. Just because they're poor it doesn't mean they're less of a coloniser than other majority European nations.
Clementamania@Holtamania
Twitter children’s view of Argentina vs an actual Argentinian.
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Imagine being that out of touch. 5k a week charity pay for having near killed himself driving like an idiot. They could've taken action against him for his behaviour given the damage it did to their squad.
Second Tier podcast@secondtierpod
🗣️Michail Antonio on the contract West Ham offered him when he was recovering from his car crash: “Karren Brady told me she’d offer £5k-a-week with the under-21s. I said, 'How can you offer that when the under-21s are on more than that and I’ve been at this club for 10 years?' Her response was, 'Well, they haven’t been in a car crash and shattered their leg." (Via: @FourFourTwo)
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@neugassh Inconsistency is a huge problem. Watch Morocco vs Netherlands then Morocco vs Canada and try telling me they were refereed to the same standards.
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Worst things about this World Cup officiating are that there's A: no consistency in decisions B: FIFA are not following their own VAR laws correctly and C: no fans seem to understand the laws and are arguing over irrelevant nonsense. FIFA have totally lost control of everything.
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@StanCollymore I dunno, the UK media has consistently associated Argentina with the settler colonial project off its coast.
Any anti-colonialism rhetoric is fine for me, especially in sport. So we should instead focus on why Argentina fans can be super racist/Zionist.
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Per FIFA's own rules about political statements in the tournament, why haven't Argentina been sanctioned for repeated singing of songs that could only be described as inflammatory?
I'm not getting into the geopolitics of any land mass anywhere, it's ownership or claims. But DR Congo had to literally change their shirt design because it celebrated independence, so pro players in a dressing room, ahead of what will already be a politically charged environment ( England expects post deleted because of how it could be interpreted, which wasn't my intention) being allowed repeatedly to sing politically motivated songs?
If Republic of Ireland players sang rebel songs v Northern Ireland or vice versa in Dublin, FIFA would step in. Likewise issues with balkan nations in recent years.
So what's different here?
I have lots of Argentine followers so please go not see this as a "English v Argentina" attack, but merely we mostly all agree no politics in football is a good thing? So why no sanction or even warning?
Daily Mail have already gone big on it, the world's largest English language newspaper now, so that video in the dressing room with stoke tension. Unnecessarily so.
If we're serious about no politics in the sporting arena, then it must apply to all.
Sensible, sane feedback welcome.
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John Smith retweetledi
My UFC credential has already been revoked so I’ve got nothing to lose.
Here’s the truth:
Conor & team informed Dana earlier in the week that he had a knee injury.
Dana told them the show MUST go on.
No refunds.
Because of the financial implications McGregor was forced to try.
People inside became aware that McGregor was comprised, and THAT’S why the betting line moved significantly prior to walkouts.
But since in excess of 80% + of the bets AND money legally wagered were on McGregor, this allowed the UFC’s sportsbook partners to win tens of millions in profit from unsuspecting (and uninformed) customers.
Shameful and disgusting business practice for the sake of pure greed, all at the expense of their own fans.
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