This picture will always be a reference point for us.
Mbappé, for example, won the World Cup. But when it came to Messi, he knew where the line was. He never tried to manufacture a moment against him or speak disrespectfully about him.
But this guy? I genuinely wonder where all this confidence comes from.
Has he achieved something extraordinary with his club? Barcelona have dominated Real Madrid repeatedly, and for the last 2 seasons he’s ended up empty-handed, while Spain also outclassed England at the Euros.
Has he won a Ballon d’Or? A Golden Boot? Anything?
Or does he play for a club that used to dominate Messi?
Messi practically spent 16 years tormenting Real Madrid. He scored 26 goals against them alone.
Yet somehow he thought provoking the greatest player in football history was a good idea.
In the end, he got his answer on the pitch.
Dan Burn, Jordan Henderson, Djed Spence, Jarell Quansah, John Stones, Anthony Gordon, Noni Madueke.
Harry Maguire, Luke Shaw, Lewis Hall, Adam Wharton, Jarrod Bowen, Morgan Gibbs-White & Cole Palmer.
I know which group of players I would have picked. We knew it back then too.
As an Iranian, I expected this one coming…
Iran just told FIFA to cancel any LGBTQ+ ceremonies for their “Pride Match” against Egypt in Seattle.
The same regime that executes people for being gay.
The same regime that murdered +40k innocent people in 2 days.
The same regime that Iranians are trying to get rid of.
But sure, keep defending them because “Israel bad, USA bad.”
Sorry, LGBTQ community… turns out the terrorist regime you were low-key supporting, hates you.
The blinders were strong on this one.
It's rare for imagery this iconic to emerge organically.
It's just a still taken from the body cam of Henry's murder and yet it is so poetic in its composition.
The pale white flesh of Henry's hand, visibly depleted of blood as he is moments away from death, is both contrasted against his dark clothing and illuminated by the rays of the flashlight such that the image takes on the characteristics of a renaissance painting.
Henry's hand is curled into something like fist. It naturally draws comparisons to Black Lives Matter and the "Black Power" Fist iconography, Henry's dying paleness evoking "White Power," the boogeyman we have destroyed our societies attempting to stymie.
But there is no "White Power." Henry is dying. The fist is literally shackled, constrained, and drained of life. It is being "attacked" by the begloved hands, artificial, latex, inhuman, contorted into the shape of a predatory claw. These are literally the arms of the state. The "Systemic Organism." Our ultimate tyrant.
These are not the hands of the individual officers to whom they actually belong, but rather the hands of a system, a meta-organism. Hands following orders that did not come from the minds of the human individuals but rather the Systemic Egregore. Hands operating under explicit instructions to elevate testimony that claims "racism" and to treat all Whites with suspicion as avatars of that "ultimate evil" against which the system has oriented itself.
Except Henry was not evil. He was a victim of this inhuman system. This grotesquely maligned system embodied and visible in the grotesque blue claw clasping him and holding him down as he dies. The system that shackles the dying White "Power."
Henry is Britain. He is the West. We are all dying. We are all bleeding to death shackled by the inhuman systems we live under. And if we continue to be shackled by these systems, we will, like Henry, die.
The total repudiation of these governments are necessary to make any change. Incremental improvements are entirely insufficient. The time to be ungovernable is now.
Regime change is necessary. Remigration is necessary. The mass rejection of the status quo and its systems is necessary.
Revolution is necessary.
@TalkingWolves It’s not Edwards, it’s fosun and the players we’ve got Krejci Joao Gomes Andre Santi Bueno who are decent/good the rest are wank it’s a miracle he’s even got a win with the bunch we’ve got never mind 3
Canada - utterly fucked
Britain - soooo utterly fucked
Australia - so insanely fucked
France - so so sooo fucked
Germany - totally fucked
Belgium - beyond fucked
Spain - fucked
Portugal - fucked
Norway - fucked
Sweden - fucked
Any guess as to why?
Fosun have ripped a hole out of the last bit of life from this football club.
Ridiculous sponsor.
Tacky Sudu kit.
Sold the team.
Fans priced out.
Fosun sitting on all the profit from the above.
How’s that for constructive criticism?
#wwfc