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If I'm the USMNT, I'm not even writing a lengthy appeal to FIFA to get Balogun's red card revoked. I'm just sending these two pictures with the caption: "????"
🚨🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo with his second Man of the Match Award of this World Cup.
How can they do this?! A short video on Tottenham Hotspur’s spending. #THFC
@OkaforDavidChu1 @VitorSouza44150 Bayern currently > 2010 AC Milan
If I were FIFA, I’d think very carefully about what happens to haughty Europeans who try to impose rules we don’t like on us without our consent on our home soil around July 4th.
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
Troy Deeney absuloutely spot on questioning Matheus Fernandese mentality ! [@talkSPORT ]
Bro everybody of African descent please withdraw your kid or future kid from future education and put train them as a goalkeeper
Next season I go dey present Mateus Fernandes you go dey present Xhaka 😭😭😭
Is this even real or some AI shit bro wtf?
🤩 "De Zerbi is a lucky boy." 👀 "Tottenham are not in the participation business." Simon Jordan explains why Sandro Tonali has agreed to join Spurs and what it means for Roberto De Zerbi's side.
Offsides is precisely why Americans could give a fuck about soccer. Lamest rule in all of sports.
You cannot - in a once-every-four-years competition - that is largely a single elimination tournament - make a team play 10 on 11 after a red card, and then remove that team’s offending player for the next game. You just cannot, for ANY reason… let alone a silly, unintentional ‘infraction’ like tonight’s. Not when fans care, root, and spend this much. It ruins the product. And also invites corruption among referees.
Admittedly, I’m new to futbol, but offsides seems to be a silly rule. You penalize one team because their opponent failed to keep a player back far enough to properly defend their goal??? 🤔 Make it make sense.
