Joel Heinrichs 🌾

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[MatchReport @MatchReportH]

🚨🇺🇸 Rio Ferdinand Questions VAR Consistency After Balogun Red Card

“This is where people start questioning VAR because they just want consistency. We all remember the challenge involving Messi against Algeria. Many felt it was worthy of a red card, yet it wasn’t even properly reviewed, and there was no punishment. Now you look at Balogun’s challenge—VAR steps in, the referee goes to the monitor, and suddenly it’s a straight red. That’s the inconsistency that frustrates players, coaches, and supporters.

“Football keeps telling us that VAR is there to make the game fair and ensure every team is treated equally. But when similar incidents are handled completely differently, people naturally begin to wonder what the standard actually is. The laws shouldn’t change depending on the badge on a player’s shirt.

“I’m not saying officials have an easy job, but if you’re going to intervene in one incident, you have to intervene in all of them. Otherwise, you lose trust in the system. The game deserves consistency, the players deserve consistency, and the fans deserve consistency. Right now, it doesn’t feel like everyone is being judged by the same standard.”

#USABIH

[Ben Jacobs @JacobsBen]

Two relatively similar incidents...

Flo Balogun: red card.
Lionel Messi: unpunished.

[Joel Heinrichs 🌾 @Joeldog50]

VAR has no credibility to me! #VAR

[TeeJee🇵🇹 @TeeJeeUtd]

🚨 Jamie Carragher weighs in on Folarin Balogun’s controversial red card in USA vs Bosnia and Herzegovina, comparing it to Messi’s challenge against Algeria:

🗣️ “This is exactly the kind of decision that makes you question what VAR is actually for. Balogun gets sent off in a World Cup knockout game for what looks like an accidental coming-together, yet Messi does something very similar against Algeria and it’s waved away like it never happened.”

“Football fans have eyes. We all saw the Messi challenge — studs up, contact on the back of the leg — and nothing. Then Balogun gets the full VAR treatment and a straight red. How is that consistent? It’s not.”

“What annoys me most is the lack of any clear standard. If that’s a red for Balogun, then it has to be a red for Messi too. You can’t have one rule for the biggest names in the game and another for everyone else. That’s not refereeing, that’s favouritism.”

“The USA are in a World Cup knockout match, they lose their main striker to a decision like this, and people are left scratching their heads wondering why the same level of scrutiny wasn’t applied to Messi. It’s frustrating for the neutral, never mind the American fans.”

“VAR was brought in to clean the game up and make things fairer. Right now it’s doing the opposite — it’s creating more arguments, more confusion, and more suspicion that certain players are getting special treatment.”

“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the laws have to be applied the same way to every single player on the pitch. If you’re going to be ultra-strict with Balogun in a massive game, then you better be ultra-strict with Messi as well. Otherwise the whole thing loses all credibility.”

“Big stars have always had an easier ride in some ways, but with VAR in the game now there’s no excuse for this level of inconsistency. Nights like this just make supporters lose faith in the whole system.”

“If football wants people to respect the decisions, then every challenge has to be judged by the same standard — whether it’s Folarin Balogun, Lionel Messi or any other player. Anything less and VAR is doing more harm than good.”

[Banter FC @TheFCBanter]

Not even a foul for Messi:

Straight red card for Balogun:

[Shedyfooty @Shedyfooty]

Hey @Grok, can you explain why Messi didn't receive a red card for this challenge, while Balogun was shown a straight red for what appears to be a very similar foul?

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

Messi didn’t get a red card for this.

But, Balogun got a red card.

Make it make sense, FIFA…

[Anne Rogers @anne__rogers]

This is Salvador Perez's 137th career home run at Kauffman Stadium. That's the most ever hit in the 54-year history of this ballpark, breaking a tie with George Brett.

And make it 313 career home runs for Salvy... four away from tying Brett for the franchise record (317).

[Kansas City Royals @Royals]

Flippin' unreal.

[Joel Heinrichs 🌾 @Joeldog50]

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[NASCAR Sammy @NASCARSammy]

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[Anne Rogers @anne__rogers]

Salvador Perez 🚀

9th home run of the season
312th of his career, five shy of tying George Brett for the franchise record (317)
136th career home run at Kauffman Stadium, matching Brett for the most in the history of this ballpark

[Joel Heinrichs 🌾 @Joeldog50]

@MLB @HayleyLewis_ @Royals Let's go Royals! Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey!

[MLB @MLB]

These new Kansas City Royals City Connects are clean 😮‍💨

We are giving away a new Royals City Connect jersey just for you! Repost and reply for your chance to win!

[Joel Heinrichs 🌾 @Joeldog50]

#Mustard baby!

[Sasquatch Vinnie @SasquatchVinnie]

First Hot Dog Derby of the Year! What a comeback!
Mustard 1-0
Ketchup 0-1
Relish 0-1

[Joel Heinrichs 🌾 @Joeldog50]

@Stanimal032 Praying for all of these 🙏

[Joel Heinrichs 🌾 @Joeldog50]

@SpireMotorsport @Mc_Driver @Daniel_SuarezG @CarsonHocevar @Freeway_Ins @KatzCoffee @Chilis Congrats on the Top 5 finish!

[Spire Motorsports @SpireMotorsport]

A great points day for @Mc_Driver.

[D. Scott Fritchen @DScottFritchen]

Kansas State running back Darren Sproles weighed 187 pounds, ran a 4.49, benched 225 pounds 23 times and had a 33-inch vertical at the 2005 NFL Combine.

He also measured 5 foot 6 inches.

They said he was too short.

Now Darren belongs in the NFL Hall of Fame. #NFLCombine

[Joel Heinrichs 🌾 @Joeldog50]

@Thekstatefan Anthony Beane baby! Oh yeah I loved that guy! "Mr. Clutch".

[Joel Heinrichs 🌾 @Joeldog50]

👀 @TheMike816

[ESPN Insights @ESPNInsights]

P.J. Haggerty and Nate Johnson become the 5th pair of teammates in Big 12 history to score 30+ PTS in a game 🔥