Laura Swanbeck

I write about football for a living.⚽ Opinions and views entirely my own.

[Sam Dean @SamJDean]

Norway manager Stale Solbakken with a very strong reponse to Folarin Balogun's red card being suspended.

"It is a big mistake by FIFA. It is not a great conclusion. He got a red card and the VAR concluded that it was a red card. That means you are suspended for one game.

"I think what is really bad about that situation is, if the USA beat Belgium, they will always have that extra thing about it.

"The Belgians will be furious. What about the next red card? What happens there? Will some committee take it away? It’s a bad, bad, bad, bad decision that will hurt the World Cup and the United States."

[Daniel Austin @_Dan_Austin]

Just to be clear, then. FIFA:

1) can't possibly intervene when Iran are forced to move, a referee is denied a visa, or fans are barred from the USA

2) can absolutely intervene when a decision goes against the USA that Donald Trump doesn't like

Smashing. All know where we stand

[James Benge @jamesbenge]

A scandalous decision, FIFA placing its thumb on the scales of the tournament without even feeling compelled to offer a fig leaf of justification. Borderline red cards happen all the time and plenty of teams with more at stake than the USMNT have to just deal with it.

[Adam Keys @adamkeys_]

#Arsenal have sold Leandro Trossard for a fee close to what we paid, after the best years of his career with 36 goals and 34 assists in 174 games. He will go down in history as the player who scored our most important, title winning goal; a true cult hero.

[Washington Spirit @WashSpirit]

BELLA 🤌

[Out of Context Football Manager @nocontextfm1]

The current clubs of this Cape Verde XI:

No club
Columbus Crew
Shamrock Rovers
Al-Bataeh
Trabzonspor
FC Krasnodar
No club
Ludogorets Razgrad
Puskás Akadémia
No club
İstanbul Başakşehir

What we have witnessed tonight against the reigning champions is truly remarkable.

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

The Cape Verde goalscorer love story has just overtaken Taylor Swift’s

[Catherine⭐️⭐️♥️🔴⚪️ @Katie_Scoot]

McCabe: Chelsea badge tap

Stanway: Hold my beer

[Charles Watts @charles_watts]

25 years to the day since I woke up in a hostel in Los Angeles, walked downstairs to the internet room, logged into my email and read this from my Dad.

[big t @pureuranium]

rejecting chelsea and immediately getting “whatever the weather” tattooed before ever even stepping foot on the pitch for us

[Barça Femení @BarcaFem]

✨ Alexia Putellas with Rosalía and Penélope Cruz.

[alex | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @rooskayaa]

July tmr I want one signing announcement to hit every 2 hours from 9am onwards @ArsenalWFC

[OptaJoe @OptaJoe]

0-1 - England have won a FIFA World Cup match after conceding the opening goal for only the second time in their history, also doing so in the 1966 final against Germany (4-2).

Coming.

[Ian Darke @IanDarke]

That really is an amazing stat. England never come from behind to win in World Cup since 1966 final.

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Heading into the World Cup round of 16 like

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

If you're having a bad day because of workplace toxicity, just remember that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has to work with Clarence Thomas.

[Tim Stillman ⭐️⭐️ @timstillman_]

For no reason, Arsenal's squad number history since the launch of the WSL in 2011...

1.Byrne, van Veenendaal, Zinsberger, van Domselaar
2.Houghton, Scott, Veje, Rafaelle, Fox
3.Tracy, Mitchell, Wubben-Moy
4.Ludlow, Kinga, Sampson, F Williams, Arnth, Patten
5.Flaherty, Stoney, Henning, Beattie, Codina

[Charles Watts @charles_watts]

Gabriel vs Haaland in a World Cup knockout game.

That is going to be fun to watch.

🍿🍿🍿

[Tom Ede @TomEde1]

Martin Ødegaard is the second #Arsenal player to score or assist a goal in three consecutive World Cup appearances, after Dennis Bergkamp in 1998

[OptaJoe @OptaJoe]

95:00 - Gabriel Martinelli’s winner for Brazil (95:00) is the latest winning goal in normal time of the knockout stages of the FIFA World Cup on record (since 1966).

Timely.