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[Dale Johnson @DaleJohnsonBBC]

Fifa bans England's Jarell Quansah for two games, meaning he misses Norway and a potential semi-final.

Quansah was sent off for serious foul play.

US striker Folarin Balogun, who was sent off for serious foul play, got one game which was suspended for 12 months...

[Jeffrey Boadi @jeffreyboadi_]

Here’s what I’ve realised about the American athlete discourse in the World Cup:

A lot of people who weren’t around for USA ‘94 have seen in the last few weeks that football is by far and away the biggest and best sport in the world - nothing comes close.

But the US being really average at it compared to European nations upsets them, so it’s been a case of doing mental gymnastics to try and prove that they could be elite if the Russell Westbrooks and LeBron James’ of this world played from a young age.

It just doesn’t work like that - athleticism only gets you so far when a highly technical sport like football is played in the brain first.

Some of the best players in the history of the game don’t even look remotely athletic - yet you can’t get near them.

My American friends: I promise you it’s okay that people from other parts of the world are better than you at something 😬

[Kevin Van Valkenburg @KVanValkenburg]

Soccer twitter is great, I am sad I wasn't plugged into it previously. Fav a few tweets, share a few dumb opinions, and now my timeline is like:

Russell Westbrook and DK Metcalf could defeat Brazil's current squad with 6 months of training, particularly since Brazil is no longer a team of creative Catholic heathens; also the Americans have 11 Erling Haalands in every mid-size Ohio town but many of them will never make it because they have to pay club fees so they're instead forced to play power forward in the MAC, and America's loudest soccer voice is like "Shareholders see this as a good return on an investment, if you disagree you are woke."

[Matt Cameron @MCameron008]

I’m gonna try to stop myself from arguing with the “America’s best athletes played soccer” crowd. Not because it isn’t a worthy topic, but because their lack of understanding, as to the components of an elite soccer player, can’t be bridged in a tweet.

[Alfie | HITC Sevens @HITCSevens]

It’s always amusing how some American hyper-capitalists will present things which are completely normal and uncontroversial everywhere else in the world as sadly being total impossibilities in the US.

[daniel @DanielLacey35]

@DannyParkins the only people who had him in the conversation were americans,to every one else its obvious hes just a guy

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

All the American libs and leftists who were like "Actually its okay for Trump to do horrible corruption to have Balogun play"

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Ishaya_]

To summarise this thread: Europeans passively accept unfairness, while the American spirit refuses to let an injustice go uncorrected.😅

Watching Americans frame the LITERAL geopolitical blackmail of FIFA as a proud, patriotic stand for justice is incredible.

They are weaponising state power to cheat, & then writing poetic essays about their moral superiority.🫠

It's the exact same geopolitical narcissism that allows them to obliterate a country for natural resources, & then demand global sympathy via a 3-hour Oscar-winning film about the psychological toll it took on their patriotic invading army.

[Megan Feringa @megan_feringa]

genuinely depressing the slew of fellow American journalists (+ colleagues) contorting themselves into shameless knots to insist that overt corruption is an act of profound patriotism bc it benefits them, if you can’t have shame at least have the dignity to not be so tone deaf

[relo @shawnvsflair]

still laughing at those leftists who turned into MAGA supporters for a day by aligning themselves with trump’s interference just for the USMNT to get their pants pulled down on the world’s biggest stage

[Jason Reid @JasonReidx]

Over the past few days, stuff like this has been so instructive in highlighting just how deep the rot of American exceptionalism is.

[daniel @DanielLacey35]

@getnickwright @USMNT the probem is the guy thats been given the tag as a superstar is just a guy if he was from a lot of countries,in fact i dont think he would even get in the squad for many of the top nations .if soccer had a club superstar he would be sitting at home watching tv

[daniel @DanielLacey35]

@FTFonFS1 @getnickwright this was corruption and i dont think you would have felt the same if this was relating to a NBA or NFL Teams i have seen you speak out about these types of things with other sports

[James Kelly @JamesKelly]

The only huge cultural difference I'm seeing is that "internationals" are keen on the rules applying equally to all, while Americans want the rules set aside at the first sign of inconvenience to their own side.

[Annemarie Dray @AnnemarieDray]

Really do not care what gymnastics you try to justify this: the President of a competing country made THREE calls to intervene and ask FIFA to overturn a footballing decision. This is corruption in its’ purest form. Period.

[ESPN Podcasts @espnpodcasts]

"They've made a mockery of this World Cup. ... I don't know how [Gianni Infantino] can look at himself in the mirror and think, 'Yeah I did the right thing here, it's okay.' ... You can not change rules halfway through a tournament."

On the latest episode of The Gab & Juls Show, @Marcotti and @LaurensJulien discuss the controversy surrounding Folarin Balogun's availability against Belgium.

[Allie ✞ @allie__voss]

I’m constantly telling myself “No one notices the small weird things I do!!!” and then I come on this website full of people doing exactly that

[Shizukou😈🕹️ Retro Gamer @Shizukougames]

I try to avoid politics where I can, but this needs your attention!

The government is planning to change recommendations on YouTube to cater towards broadcasters over users

Please voice your opinions on the survey link in the main tweet 👇

[Zigzaglawyer 🎭Team Mystery @Zigzaglawyer]

Can't imagine why they'd want to do that..

[Tomos Doran 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 @portraitinflesh]

I was never a Burnham fan, but my heart sank below sea level when I saw his answer on HS2, i.e. blaming the fiasco on central planners not caring *enough* about local concerns. Not only is that the *precise* opposite of the problem, it bodes poorly for his approach to government.