When a ref’s standing waiting for a TV producer to tell him when he's allowed to restart a game, you've stopped running a football tournament & started running an ad break with football in between.
Sad thing is, the Premier League is watching & learning🤦♂️
Polémica en la pausa de hidratación del Alemania-Curazao. Los futbolistas alemanes se apresuraron a reanudar el juego rápidamente después de pasar 1 minutos y 30 segundos, pero el árbitro dijo que esperasen porque no tenía el OK de las televisiones con derechos, que pueden emitir hasta 3 minutos y 30 segundos de anuncios
🏴 En Inglaterra, una periodista fue a un barrio de musulmanes a decir que ellos son PACIFICOS
y al rato apareció una banda de musulmanes a decirles que se vayan porque los iban a matar☠️
País destruido por la agenda 2030.
¡ESTALLA LA PRIMERA POLÉMICA DEL MUNDIAL! 🚨🤯
Lo que muchos advertían desde hace meses parece haberse confirmado: las pausas de hidratación de la FIFA estarían respondiendo más a intereses comerciales que al bienestar de los futbolistas.
La controversia explotó durante el México 🇲🇽 vs Sudáfrica 🇿🇦, cuando el árbitro Wilton Sampaio retrasó la reanudación del partido tras una pausa de hidratación porque Fox Sports seguía emitiendo comerciales.
Lo más insólito llegó después: pese a la espera, la cadena continuó en publicidad y el encuentro se reanudó mientras miles de televidentes seguían viendo anuncios, perdiéndose los primeros segundos de juego en vivo.
¿Pausas para cuidar a los jugadores o para vender más publicidad? 👀
I remember before the USA World Cup in 1994 there was talk that they wanted to split the game into quarters for Ad breaks. It was laughed off by the footballing world. Well they’ve done it in 2026 covertly with the introduction of the water break in each half. Tricked us all.
What an effort from the laddie, Craig Ferguson! He’s just walked from LA to Boston over 3200 miles, raising over £1 million for Mental Health, to finish in time for Scotland’s first game v Haiti. A pleasure to see him complete his walk! 🏴🥾⚽️🇺🇸❤️ #samh
https://t.co/Z3EgdNBlTC
🚨 𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗕𝗟𝗘: During the Mexico-South Africa, the referee was forced to delay the restart after the cooling break because Fox was still showing advertisements. 🤯
The match eventually resumed while the broadcaster was still airing commercials. 🥶
According to reports, the cooling breaks are being used not only for player welfare but also to create additional advertising windows for broadcasters. 😳💰
🗞️ @Romain_Molina
Arsène Wenger:
🗣️ “There was a time we had £90 million turnover and we had to pay back £22 million per year for the stadium. I couldn’t sleep because we had to qualify for the Champions League to pay back the money.”
🗣️ “We had to sell our best players. Other clubs came in with lots of money but we were on the same level from 2007 to 2016.”
This is why so many Arsenal fans will forever defend Wenger.
While rivals were spending freely, Arsenal were carrying the weight of the Emirates project on their backs. Every summer felt like survival. Every top-four finish felt like a trophy. Every season, Wenger had to replace world-class players while keeping Arsenal competitive enough to secure Champions League football.
🔴 Sold stars. 🔴 Balanced the books. 🔴 Built a world-class stadium. 🔴 Kept Arsenal among Europe's elite.
Many managers would've walked away. Wenger stayed and carried the club through its most difficult financial era.
The trophies are part of his legacy. The fact Arsenal emerged from that period stronger, richer, and ready to compete again is the other part.
Without Wenger's sacrifices, there is no Arsenal of today.
🤳🇲🇽 The most tragic moment from the opening match of the World Cup. 😔
Two Mexican fans in the stadium celebrating the goal but not before getting their phones out and making sure to record themselves.
This is just a sad part of modern life and modern fandom. 💔
So,let's have this right.
A Sudanese immigrant sat on a man gauging his eye out and cutting at his throat. In broad daylight.
And Starmer,the man who's responsible for the safety of the citizens of this great nation.His response is to clamp down on social media???
Well,I feel a lot safer already.
We now live in a country where it’s ok to wave your own countries flag at a football match in another country but if you dare do the same in your own country it’s deemed divisive & offensive.
How does that even make any sense.
If I want to fly a flag in my own country then I will damn well do so.
My country, my choice.