🚨🎙️New: Zlatan Ibrahimović on FIFA’s new mouth-covering rule:
“Almirón gets a red. Bellingham gets nothing. Same rule, different treatment”:
“I don’t understand football anymore. FIFA tells us there is a new rule: cover your mouth during a confrontation and you can be sent off. Fine. A rule is a rule. But when the same World Cup gives us two similar situations and only one player pays the price, people are going to ask questions.
“I don’t understand football anymore. FIFA tells us there is a new rule: cover your mouth during a confrontation and you can be sent off. Fine. A rule is a rule. But when the same World Cup gives us two similar situations and only one player pays the price, people are going to ask questions.
When the law is a spider’s web, the small flies get trapped while the big ones tear straight through it. Every new football rule is sold as justice, but justice that changes shirts depending on who wears it stops looking like justice at all.
Football fans are not blind. They see a Real Madrid superstar and England’s golden boy getting the benefit of every doubt, while smaller nations get punished before they can even explain themselves. The badge on your chest should not be a shield against the laws of the game.
And please don’t tell me VAR sees everything. VAR can spot a blade of grass being offside from 50 cameras, but suddenly develops tunnel vision when certain players are involved. It’s amazing how technology becomes a microscope for some teams and a blindfold for others.
The danger isn’t the red card. The danger is the message. If supporters start believing that England, Europe, and football’s biggest brands play by a different set of rules, then trust in the competition starts collapsing like a house built on sand.
Football was supposed to be the world’s game. Now many fans feel it’s becoming a VIP club. The stars sit in first class while everyone else is told to follow the rules from economy.
If the gesture deserves a red card, then give it every time. If it doesn’t, then stop pretending. Because selective justice is the quickest way to kill fair play. And when fair play dies, football becomes nothing more than a blockbuster movie where the ending is already protected.”
Genuine question: am I going insane? That Konsa tackle on Adu* is the most red card penalty red card foul that has ever taken place and it's like nobody is talking about it. Did I miss something
Miguel Almirón covered his mouth and was shown a red card, plus an additional one-match suspension. ❌🇵🇾
Meanwhile, Jude Bellingham covered his mouth against Ghana but walked away without a red. 🤔🏴
Same action, different outcomes… interesting debate on consistency in decision-making at this World Cup.
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I said it real time last night this was a penalty, I found it mind blowing the commentary team just pretended it didn’t happen. We got away with one last night, its as clear a pen as you’ll see. #england
I said it real time last night this was a penalty, I found it mind blowing the commentary team just pretended it didn’t happen. We got away with one last night, its as clear a pen as you’ll see. #england