Jade Joseph Jacobs

Footballer#MUFC#Forced to have a day job*PE is home!

[Jade Joseph Jacobs @JJ13Jacobs]

Everybody in this world has something they’re Happy about and something they’re Unhappy about, it’s important to know where to focus your energy!

[TCR. @TeamCRonaldo]

🚨 𝗖𝗥𝗔𝗭𝗬 𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗧: Cristiano Ronaldo is the ONLY Portuguese player in history to win THREE major trophies with the senior national team! 🇵🇹

He never lost a final while captaining his national team.

Before him, Portugal had 0 trophies.
With him as the leader? Three and counting. 🏆🏆🏆

The undisputed king who changed the history of Portugal. 🐐

[Rio Ferdinand @rioferdy5]

Footballs the winner

#fifaworldcup #fifaworldcup

[BallCarrier @BallCarrier_]

South Africa beat Scotland 42-28 to complete their clean sweep of the Six Nations sides in the last 9 months 🧹

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

Always, always, always Jude. 🫲🏾🫱🏾

[grandson @Grandsoncr7]

🚨 Ricardo Quaresma:

“Messi isn’t better than Ronaldo. Ronaldo achieved everything through his talent and hard work. Messi achieved everything through his talent, but also with a lot of help from FIFA and controversial decisions. If Ronaldo had received even half the support Messi did from fifa, he would have won a World Cup too.”

[Gayton McKenzie @GaytonMcK]

🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🙏🙏🙏

[grandson @Grandsoncr7]

🗣️ Hossam Hassan:

“Cristiano Ronaldo is the greatest footballer of all time. His career has been built on hard work, discipline, and has been free from major controversy. For me, I cannot put Messi above him because his career has had several disputed moments. I believe a player involved in cheating and controversies within the sport should not be considered the greatest of all time.”

[Gayton McKenzie @GaytonMcK]

Rest in perfect Peace my Boy 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲

[Goals Side @goalsside]

🚨🚨🎙️| JL Sanchez on Argentina and FIFA: "What happened in Qatar was not enough. Argentina are being helped by FIFA. This needs to stop." 👀

[(fan) Frank 🧠🇾🇪 @FrankEra_]

🚨🎙️ | Javier Hernández on Egypt's disallowed goal against Argentina:

"That was a really SOFT call. The goal SHOULD have stood."

[robertmarawa @robertmarawa]

And we must continue watching a game we once loved!!

Wow!!!🚮🚮

[Gakpo Era 🇳🇱 @Szobo_baller]

Jurgen Klopp 🗣️" Today we have witnessed a game where officials are willing to do anything for one side to win , ruling out that Egypt goal was injustice!"

[MatchReport @MatchReportH]

🚨🇦🇷🇪🇬 DIMITAR BERBATOV: “VAR WAS CREATED FOR NIGHTS LIKE THIS, AND IT FAILED EGYPT”

🗣️ “I have watched football long enough to know that controversy will always exist, but what I struggle to understand is how a match with so many major incidents can leave so many unanswered questions.

The biggest disappointment for me is VAR. We were told VAR would remove clear errors and bring more fairness to the game. Instead, after this match, the debates are even bigger than they would have been without it.

Egypt will look back at this game and feel deeply frustrated. They had a goal ruled out after a lengthy review. They had moments where they felt fouls were ignored. They had appeals that many expected VAR to at least examine more closely.

That is the problem. Fans can accept decisions they disagree with if they believe every incident has been judged equally. What they cannot accept is feeling that some situations receive more attention than others.

The match itself was fantastic, but instead of talking about football, we are talking about referees and VAR. That tells you everything.

For me, VAR failed its biggest test tonight. Not because every decision was necessarily wrong, but because it failed to convince people that justice was served.

Egypt’s disallowed goal will be debated. The incidents before Argentina’s winning goal will be debated. The consistency of the officiating will be debated.

When a match ends and millions of people are still asking the same questions hours later, that is not a success for VAR.

Football deserves transparency. Players deserve clarity. Supporters deserve explanations.

Tonight, Egypt leave the tournament feeling that key moments were taken away from them, and that is a terrible feeling for any nation.”

#ARGEGY

[Chief @Chiefofbridge]

🚨 Roy Keane Rips Into Argentina: They’re Not Playing in the World Cup They’re in the Africa Cup of Nations:

🗣Reporter: Roy Keane, how did you see the first half in the match between Argentina and Egypt? Was there anything special from the Argentina team?

🗣Roy Keane: Look, first of all, I don’t even want to talk about it. That wasn’t a penalty, end of story.

Argentina aren’t playing interesting football at all it’s flat, it’s predictable. Messi misses a penalty and the world moves on, but if that was Ronaldo the whole planet would be in meltdown.

And let’s be honest, Argentina keep getting these African teams in the World Cup. To me, they’re not even playing in the World Cup they’re playing in the Africa Cup of Nations.

[𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐏𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 @OTPipers]

🚨🎙️🗣️: Yaya Toure

“When you look at the reaction and the face of the FIFA president after Messi missed the penalty it didn’t look so bright, I think there’s some kind of agenda going on to keep him in the tournament no matter what.”

(@GuardianSport)

[JustBizarreFooty | B @JBFootyX]

🚨🎙️| Zlatan Ibrahimović on Argentina eliminating Egypt from the World Cup:

🗣️“I’m a big fan of Messi, but let’s be real for once. This feels like pure robbery. Every controversial decision somehow goes Argentina’s way. FIFA keeps acting like they want Messi to lift every trophy possible. At this point, it’s becoming too obvious. Egypt deserved more from that game, but when the biggest football organization in the world has its favorite, what can you do?”

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Pepe on the controversial officiating decisions in Egypt and Argentina game, Messi and Argentina are being favored:

“Today the whole world watched the same match.

Egypt scored a perfectly good goal, celebrated it, earned it, and then VAR suddenly turned into a time machine. They went so far back looking for a reason to disallow it that I thought they were reviewing the pyramids being built.

That is my first question.

If VAR can travel that far into the past to cancel Egypt’s goal, why could it not travel five seconds into the future when Egypt were screaming for penalties?

Funny, no? One team gets forensic investigation. The other gets silence.

Egypt were leading. Egypt were controlling the game. Egypt were making Argentina uncomfortable. Then came the intervention that changed everything.

The disallowed goal.

The moment that shifted the entire momentum of the match.

And after that? Two penalty appeals. Two. Not one. Two opportunities for the officials to show consistency.

Nothing. No urgency. No transparency. No explanation that convinced anybody.

Then Argentina go down the other end and score the winner.

Football is a game of moments. The referee’s team decided which moments deserved attention and which moments deserved to disappear.

People tell me Argentina showed champion mentality. I agree.

But champion mentality and controversial officiating are not mutually exclusive things, Both can exist at the same time. What I cannot accept is the inconsistency.

When Egypt scored, VAR searched every grain of sand in the desert looking for a foul.

When Egypt asked for penalties, suddenly everybody became blind. That is why the Egyptian bench exploded. That is why cards were flying everywhere. That is why millions of fans left the stadium angry instead of simply disappointed.

Because losing to Argentina is one thing. Feeling like the rules changed depending on who benefited is another.

And this is what football fans hate the most. Not defeat. Not mistakes. Selective scrutiny.

The feeling that one decision was examined with a microscope while another was viewed from outer space.

Maybe Argentina would still have won. Maybe they would not. We will never know. Because the game was not allowed to reach its natural conclusion.

Instead, Egypt leave the World Cup with questions.

Questions about the disallowed goal, Questions about the ignored penalty appeals, Questions about consistency, Questions about why VAR looked like a sword against one team and a shield for another.

And when football leaves people talking more about the officials than the players, that is not a victory for the sport.

That is a failure.

Today Egypt lost 3-2 on the scoreboard.

But the debate over what really happened will win headlines for much longer than Argentina’s comeback.”

[Inside Reality Football @RealityLfc]

🚨Wayne Rooney on the false penalty against Egypt vs Argentina.

🗣️“It’s really disappointing to see the VAR keep mute on the decision there, in a crucial game like this and there’s still favorites in the game.”

“A lot of Argentine and Lionel Messi fans won’t like what I’m saying but that’s the fact to be discussed here in today’s game.”

“This shouldn’t have been a penalty but the world and every Egyptian fan is glad after the miss. It’s just so bad to see this happen in to the African nations, especially in a decisive game like this.”

[DREN!! @City_Dren]

🚨 Didier Drogba Blasts VAR Decision in Egypt vs Argentina:

I finally believe Argentina always find the easiest route to progress in the World Cup, and VAR made it obvious tonight.

Thank God VAR didn’t exist in our era. Look at the beautiful run from Hassan and Salah to create that chance - where was the referee then? Was the whistle missing from his hands? He only woke up after they scored.

You could see the reaction from FIFA President Gianni Infantino. I guess he wished he could reverse the second goal by Zizo.

The funny thing is that some fans are already saying Argentina is playing in the African Cup of Nations because they’ve faced mostly African teams since the start of the tournament. But I think yes, they have - and they’re experiencing it well, because Egypt won tonight for me.

Sometimes I blame African teams for not holding onto their leads until the final whistle, but how can they when the referee and VAR always seem to be against them?

We Africans deserve better.

[SethOfficial @UTD_Seth001]

🚨Javier Zanetti on Argentina’s penalty against Egypt:

🗣️ “For me, that is never a penalty.

I’ve watched it several times, and I still don’t understand what the defender is supposed to do differently. There is minimal contact, both players are competing for the ball, and the Egyptian defender doesn’t make a reckless challenge. Football is becoming very dangerous when incidents like that are enough to decide matches.

The referee has to understand the context. This is the World Cup, not a training session. Every little touch inside the box cannot become a penalty. If that’s the standard now, defenders may as well stop tackling altogether because every attacker will be looking for the slightest contact.

I know people will say, ‘There was contact.’ Of course there was. Football is a contact sport. The question isn’t whether there was contact—the question is whether the contact was enough to bring the player down unfairly. In my opinion, it wasn’t. The attacker was already looking for the decision before the challenge was even completed.

I feel for Egypt because they had worked incredibly hard to stay organised against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. To see all that effort threatened by a decision like this is frustrating. These are the moments that leave players and supporters wondering whether football is rewarding good defending or simply rewarding players who know how to sell a situation.

I don’t like seeing games of this magnitude decided by soft penalties. Let the football decide the match. Let quality decide the match. Don’t let a decision like that become the biggest talking point.”