Fight Club was booed when it premiered at the Venice Film Festival (1999)
Edward Norton remembers it “got booed hard.” and organizers walked out.
During the backlash, Brad Pitt turned to Norton and said:
“That’s the best movie I’m ever going to be in.” https://t.co/WV6jzmRAVv
29 years ago today, Liverpool drew in Brann and Robbie Fowler unleashed one of the dirtiest first touches in European football history. Absolute filth. Wash your hands after viewing.
4:18 – Arsenal have the longest time delays before taking corners in the Premier League this season, over 2 hours in total, averaging 4 minutes 18 seconds per match. Delay.
Polymarket has created a market that would monetize a nuclear attack amid increasing concerns that bets are happening among government insiders who can make military decisions.
117 - Arsenal have taken a league-high total of 117 minutes to restart games from corners in the Premier League this season; indeed, they also have the longest average delay of restart from corners (44 seconds). Drained.
3 - Liverpool conceded a 90th-minute winning goal for the third time in the Premier League this season – their most ever in a single campaign in the competition. Heartache.
In a system where the officiating and VAR failed to provide a fair contest, the walk-off served as a manual override.
By stopping the game for 17 minutes, Senegal broke the momentum of bias.
It forced the world to look at the screen. It effectively iced the kicker.
Brahim Díaz’s subsequent missed Panenka is blamed on the delay, but a supporter would say the delay simply restored the natural pressure of the game that the referee’s bias had tried to remove.
Banning Senegal from the World Cup for this would be the ultimate gaslighting by FIFA.
Senegal was the team that had a goal wrongly disallowed. Senegal was the team that faced a dubious last-minute penalty.
To ban the winners of the tournament because they dared to protest a systemic breakdown is essentially FIFA saying: You must sit there and let us take the game from you, or we will destroy your future.
Critics call the walk-off shameful, but the team actually returned and won.
They didn't forfeit; they protested, regrouped under Sadio Mane's leadership, and proved they were the better team by winning in extra time.
A ban would punish a team for a 15-minute protest that they self-corrected, while the refereeing errors that caused the chaos would likely go unpunished.
If FIFA bans Senegal, they aren't protecting integrity; they’re protecting incompetence.
Senegal didn't walk off because they were losing—they walked off because the officiating was an insult to the sport.
They came back, they faced the penalty, and they won on the pitch.
Banning a team for refusing to be robbed is just FIFA admitting they care more about optics than fair play.