Bombshell day at the World Cup
🔺President Trump called Fifa president Gianni Infantino asking to review Balogun red card
🔺Trump thanks Fifa for “reversing a great injustice”
🔺 In submission to FIFA, US Soccer’s legal team’s case centred around challenging use of slow motion instant replay in decision to send off #USMNT striker
🔺 Belgian FA could take matter to CAS. Investigating all options to “protect the fundamental principles of fair play in our sport”. Say “astonished” by decision
🔺 Rudi Garcia: “I didn’t know that July 5 was equal to April 1 at FIFA. We’re not defending the national team or the federation, we are defending football, its ethics and history”
🔺Gary Neville: “It absolutely stinks”/Ian Wright: “It is shameful”
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Carmelo Anthony explains why a $100,000,000 contract doesn’t make professional athletes rich for life
“$100 million… let’s not get that twisted.”
“It’s not really $100 million.”
“You’re taking 50% to 60% off the top.”
“So that $10 million becomes $5 million.”
“Then you’ve got taxes in every state you play in.”
“You’ve got a house.”
“You’re taking care of your mom.”
“You’ve got a 4% agent fee.”
“You’re not working with $10 million anymore, you’re working with $5 million.”
“That drastic lifestyle change is what messes a lot of athletes up mentally.”
“You’ve got to budget how you pay your mortgage.”
“You’ve got to budget your food.”
“$100 million is not $100 million.”
“You’re not even seeing 50% of that money.”
BLOCKBUSTER: The Boston Celtics have agreed to trade Jaylen Brown to the Philadelphia 76ers for Paul George, two first-round picks and two second-round picks, sources tell ESPN.
🚨 BREAKING:
Manchester United had a DIRECT contact with Marcus Rashford’s camp in the last 24 hours and both parties OPEN doors to restarting the process to reintegrate the player into the squad.
United would be happy to have him as part of the squad for pre-season and then see what happens later on in the market.
#MUFC [@FabrizioRomano]
Elon Musk reveals the moment his son Saxon left an entire sushi restaurant speechless
"I was living in L.A., and I took my older boys out for lunch to Sugarfish, which is a very kind of uptight sushi restaurant. In fact, on the menu of the restaurant, it says, do not ask for soy sauce, because the chef has put the right amount of soy sauce."
"So, like, extremely strict sushi restaurant. And so the waiter is going around asking everyone what they want and then it comes to Saxon and Saxon says I'll have a cheeseburger."
"And the waiter takes a moment to recover because no one ever asked for a cheeseburger at this very strict sushi restaurant. It took him like 30 seconds to realize he'd just been asked for a cheeseburger, because you're not even allowed to ask for soy sauce."
"So then when he finally recovered, he said, we don't have cheeseburgers. And Saxon goes at the top of his voice, what? Like, what kind of restaurant doesn't have cheeseburgers? He says, fine, I'll have a hamburger."
I don't really get the "it's so hard to travel right after you play" argument. NBA teams travel after games all the time, and they don't get six days off between games.
South Korean fans weren’t allowed to take their bottle of tequila beyond the first checkpoint going into the stadium, so they necked the lot of it alongside Mexicans who were there to watch the game.
That’s the World Cup spirit we all know and love. 😂❤️
Mikel Arteta says he has watched back every penalty that has been awarded in this season's Champions League.
The Arsenal manager was unhappy with the referee's decision to not award a penalty after Noni Madueke went down in the box in extra-time.
🚨🔵🔴 Total agreement reached between Anthony Gordon and Barcelona on personal terms.
Barcelona are in direct, official talks with Newcastle to close the deal club-to-club.
Barça want to get the deal done quickly to anticipate PL clubs and Bayern, still active behind scenes.