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[Gooner JAY ☔️ @afcjaygooner]

🚨🗣️New: Jamie Carragher reacts to Japan vs. Tunisia stoppage for TV commercials:

“I’ve spent my entire life in this beautiful game — as a player at the highest level, as a fan, and now as someone who analyses it every week — and what unfolded during that Japan versus Tunisia match left me deeply frustrated. The fourth official standing there on the touchline, arm raised high, instructing the referee to hold the restart… not for any injury, not for tactical reasons, and not even primarily for player hydration in that scorching heat. No. It was because the broadcast team hadn’t finished airing all their commercials. That’s not football. That’s a television show pretending to be a World Cup match.

The beautiful game is being strangled by greed. Players are out there in the heat, ready to restart, momentum building like a storm about to break — and we pause everything so the sponsors can cash in. It’s like stopping a symphony mid-crescendo because the advertisers want their jingle heard. Football didn’t conquer the world by turning into American sports with endless timeouts and ad breaks. We had rhythm, flow, and emotion that flowed like a river. Now? It’s dammed up for dollars.

This isn’t about hydration or player welfare anymore — it’s a slippery slope where the soul of the game is sold piece by piece. Fans deserve better. Players deserve better. The referee on that pitch looked like a puppet on strings controlled from some broadcast truck. Enough is enough. We need to protect what made this sport the greatest on Earth before it disappears completely.”

The World Cup should be football’s cathedral. Instead, we’re turning it into a shopping mall with a pitch in the middle.

And here’s the question nobody wants to answer: if the fourth official is waiting for commercials, then who is really running the game? FIFA? The referee? Or the broadcasters?

Because the moment football starts asking advertisers for permission before asking the players, you’ve crossed a line.

The World Cup is supposed to be the showcase of football. Not the showcase of who paid the most for airtime.”

[Corey @Corey_A_Moore]

@LateChallenge Hydration breaks, what that means for the furthermore corporatization of football

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Yes they are!! ♥️❤️❤️❤️

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breaking news A true patriot is shown

Two men dressed as Vegeta and Goku from ‘Dragon Ball’ for the Japan vs Tunisia World Cup match

[Premier League @premierleague]

From @LFC teammates to opponents at the World Cup 🔴

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💦 Marcelo Bielsa speaking 𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗦 about the hydration breaks:

🗣️ Bielsa: "Playing matches in four quarters instead of two halves completely changes that cultural understanding we have of football."

This change of culture does ⁠not add anything and takes away a lot. I will just say that before this decision, football had ​a characteristic, now it has another.

People fall in love with the game because of its characteristics. Of course technology ​like VAR, we commend it and value it.

Technology offers more opportunities. There is another intention for the breaks and the conclusions I'm making here are not really my own. I also echo what I hear as well."

[𝐆𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 @GwillsBlancos]

🚨UPDATE: The FIFA World Cup has just updated their official logo✍🏾

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“Football was popular because the poor were happy to play with a ball. When football turned into dishonest business, that is when the wealthy classes saw an opportunity in it, and since then it no longer belongs to the poor.”

— Marcelo Bielsa

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Happy Birthday, Mo Salah 🇪🇬👑

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The reason Japan fans clean the stadium after each game. Respect. 🤝🇯🇵

[Lewis Hamilton @LewisHamilton]

REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE

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Hi, reds! @LFC

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A proper and deserved Anfield farewell ❤️

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The legendary John Barnes signed for the Reds on this day in 1987 🗓️✨