🚨🎙️ Roy Keane on Messi’s career ending tackle overlooked by VAR and the referee ;
🗣️”After the match yesterday all you see is Messi’s praises everywhere, the hype, the headlines, the hat-trick talk. Yeah, maybe he deserves some of it — the lad can still play.
But no one wants to say the truth. No one wants to address what went wrong yesterday.
That challenge was an absolute disgrace. Late, studs up, straight into the Achilles — career-ending territory. On any other player, anywhere else, it’s a straight red card and you’re marching off before half-time. But not when it’s Messi.
The referee bottles it, VAR takes a quick look and says ‘nah, carry on lad.’ Give me a break!
This is the World Cup, the biggest stage in the game. This is where the rules are supposed to mean something. Not bent, not softened, not ignored because of the name on the back of the jersey. Players have been sent off for half as much in this tournament. Where’s the consistency? Do the laws of the game suddenly not apply when it’s Lionel Messi?
This is why the game’s gone soft. Big names get protected, the rest get crucified. Absolute joke of officiating on the greatest stage of all.”
@1927Creany@henrysaye Spot on there mate I don’t buy the we were the better team - yeah we had more of the ball but it means nothing. Bosnia deserved the draw and could have won it with chances they had .
@mjccfc@Savigma I like some of the stuff he’s brought to the team and he’s had to blood new players. He can speak well but I feel less said is sometimes better in big games like this.
@henrysaye I’ve said it for a while that they’ve improved more or less every player at the club. Not come in asking for certain types of players to be bought (bar a few). Turned a losing squad into a winning one too. Top job.