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[BenW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🍿🎬⛏️ @Ben_W_]

@Lea_EFC Rhymes with shunt!

[BenW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🍿🎬⛏️ @Ben_W_]

@HACKETTREF Fifa weren't expecting Egypt to score Two goals. Infantino started hitting the button in despair to signal the ref. Then the game started to change. The ref missed numerous fouls and cards for The Argies who have had only one booking all tournament. Open your eyes Keith.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

There is no conclusive proof. But the circumstantial evidence that there is pro-Argentina bias in FIFA affecting the World Cup:

1) In the group stage opener against Algeria, Messi caught Aïssa Mandi with a studs-up challenge on the Achilles and escaped any card. FIFA later admitted the VAR officials got it wrong and sanctioned them.

2) The inconsistency became undeniable when the United States' Folarin Balogun was sent off in the Round of 32 for a near-identical foot-on-ankle challenge on Bosnia's Tarik Muharemović. Pundits directly compared the red card to Messi's uncarded foul on Mandi.

3) In the 2026 Round of 32 against Cape Verde, referee Drew Fischer did not enforce the tournament's new rule requiring an injured player to remain off the pitch after treatment. He waited for Argentina's Nicolás Tagliafico to return before allowing a Cape Verde corner. Several uncalled fouls in that game also went Argentina's way.

4) Today against Egypt, with Egypt leading 1-0, Mostafa Ziko finished off a long breakaway to make it 2-0. VAR sent Letexier to the monitor and the goal was disallowed for a Marwan Attia shirt-pull on Lisandro Martínez that occurred roughly 20 seconds earlier and nearly the full length of the pitch from goal.

5) Neutral officiating experts, not just Egyptian fans, called the decision wrong. Former FIFA referee Mark Clattenburg said he did not believe it was a foul and did not believe VAR should have intervened at all, adding that the call was inconsistent with the physical contact referees had allowed all tournament.

6) The winning sequence produced a second grievance. In the buildup to Enzo Fernández's stoppage-time winner, Egypt appealed for a penalty on a Salah challenge and for an Alexis Mac Allister shirt-pull, and VAR checked neither. Hassan cited the unreviewed Mac Allister pull directly in his post-match remarks.

7) The 2026 grievances land on top of a 2022 record In Qatar, Argentina were awarded five penalties, the most ever by a team in a single World Cup edition, with Messi taking all five. That same tournament, Messi handled the ball against the Netherlands in the quarterfinal and escaped a yellow card.

8) FIFA has appointed an all-Argentine crew, led by Facundo Tello, for Thursday's France–Morocco quarterfinal, the tournament's first all-same-country panel.

9) Comments attributed to Infantino after an Argentina match were widely discussed as suggesting bias toward Argentina before he later clarified them, and a deep Messi run drives far more global viewership and revenue than one without him. This establishes incentive.

FIFA cannot be trusted. Egypt was robbed. Argentina are coasting to another title under FIFA protection.

[BenW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🍿🎬⛏️ @Ben_W_]

@FabrizioRomano Messi is a fraud!

[BenW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🍿🎬⛏️ @Ben_W_]

@KylePagan_ 25 years

[BenW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🍿🎬⛏️ @Ben_W_]

@FIFAcom @FIFAWorldCup Corruption!

[BenW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🍿🎬⛏️ @Ben_W_]

If VAR are going to rule out an Egypt goal for a shirt pull then VAR should award a penalty to Egypt for a shirt pull by Argentina. And Mo Salah was caught!

#corruption
#worldcup

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@AkaBateman 🤣

[BenW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🍿🎬⛏️ @Ben_W_]

@mikeradan @CoffeeBlackMD The US is 25 years behind the curve.
Good Luck.

[BenW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🍿🎬⛏️ @Ben_W_]

@nateyamasaki Which is why everyone thought Usain Bolt would make a world class striker?

[BenW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🍿🎬⛏️ @Ben_W_]

@jessicaelgot Make it your no.1 National sport and you'll have a chance. But it will take years and years of development.

[BenW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🍿🎬⛏️ @Ben_W_]

The US does not have a connected "soccer" pyramid with promotion and relegation like the English system.

Instead they rely on a closed franchise model where teams buy into leagues rather than earning their spot through on field performance.

This is the issue this needs fixing

[BenW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🍿🎬⛏️ @Ben_W_]

Looks like Belgium got their tactics spot on.
@USMNT
#worldcup

[BenW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🍿🎬⛏️ @Ben_W_]

@cathsb011 @USMNTTAKES You have absolutely no idea what you're taking about.

[BenW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🍿🎬⛏️ @Ben_W_]

@USMNT @HomeDepot Y'all getting roasted if Belgium knock you out. And by the grace of God I hope they do.

[BenW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🍿🎬⛏️ @Ben_W_]

@samwise_master Oh fuck off!

[BenW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🍿🎬⛏️ @Ben_W_]

@StockRetail So you'll be happy tonight if the score is 1-1 with 30 mins to play and Belgium then have 2 players sent off giving you a massive advantage to score take the win, then for what ever reason a decision is made that the two players can come back on and finish the game.

[BenW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🍿🎬⛏️ @Ben_W_]

@EricLDaugh @CryptoTeca__ USA are just scared because they have an extremely weak bench to cover Balogun if he missed the game.

If you're pulling out tricks to reinstate a player it means you're a one man team.

Belgium have every right to go out and win the game against a weakend team.

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@unusual_whales Who's are the match officials?

[BenW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🍿🎬⛏️ @Ben_W_]

Who's going to be the first Belgium player to stick a reducer on Balogun in the game later?

I think Rudi Garcia's team talk will be pretty self explanatory to his players.

#worldcup