🔴⚪️⚽️Mike Patch🔴⚪️🌳🇬🇧

Enjoying life with no regrets while I still can. 30yr Air Force vet

[Michael مايكل منير (ن) @MichaelMeunier]

الفيدو دة الفيفا عمال تستخدم حقوق الملكية الفكرية وتمسحة من مواقع التواصل علشان تمحي آثار الجريمة. انشروا الفيديو في كل مكان قبل ما يختفي. خلوه يوصل لكل الناس فيصعب مسحة.

[The Touchmine | 𝐓 @TouchmineX]

🚨𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Some members of FIFA's Executive Committee are calling for the resignation of President Gianni Infantino and are preparing a lawsuit against him.

This comes after revelations that FIFA allegedly bent the rules to favor a player and a country.

@AlertaNews24

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Been saying this all day

Share - it needs to happen

[Bosnian Football @BosniaNTBall]

Whether it is or isn’t a red to Balogun is now irrelevant. Government interference is a violation of FIFA Article 2 & 15, and the punishment is disqualification and suspension. #FIFAWorldCup

[Dave Holmes @DaveHo1mes]

This is spot on.

There’s going to be a massive fight within football after this summer, and UEFA may end up leading the charge as the only association powerful enough to unseat Infantino.

FIFA need reminding that this game belongs to us, not them.

[Korneel Evers @Korneel_Evers]

Ik snap oprecht niet waarom de Europese landen niet gezamenlijk @FIFAcom verlaten.

Richt een nieuwe bond op. De rest gaat zich echt wel aansluiten hoor.

Gewoon weg bij die corrupte bende.

[🔴⚪️⚽️Mike Patch🔴⚪️🌳🇬🇧 @MPatchitt]

@rioferdy5 @Carra23 Not surprised this dumb ass is supporting the decision. He’ll probably bring race into it at some point too

[Mario @PawlowskiMario]

Hey Florian @balogun , hear me out my brother in football⚽️

this is not about whether the red card was right or wrong anymore. That debate will never end. This is about the integrity of football.

If I were in your boots, I’d refuse to play against Belgium. Not because I think you’re a bad player or because you asked for any of this, i think you are great, but because politics has now entered the game.

A President of the United States publicly intervened, FIFA softened your suspension, and UEFA says FIFA crossed a red line. If you step onto that pitch, fair or unfair, millions of people will forever question whether you should have been there.

Don’t forget that your career is in Europe, the home of the world’s biggest clubs, the highest level of football, and fans who treat this sport almost like a religion. They care deeply about the integrity of the game. If it were me, I wouldn’t risk carrying this controversy for the rest of your career over a single match. One act of principle today could earn more respect than a hundred goals tomorrow.

Be a hero, don’t get branded as a corrupt loser, fans all over the world will remember your choice. Forever. One game can change all your career and life, choose wisely.

[🔴⚪️⚽️Mike Patch🔴⚪️🌳🇬🇧 @MPatchitt]

@SkySportsNews So if every Nation appeals red cards going forward, does that mean that also any red cards previously issued in the tournament can then have Nations asking FIFA for recompense. #GamesGone @FIFAcom

[🔴⚪️⚽️Mike Patch🔴⚪️🌳🇬🇧 @MPatchitt]

@SkySportsNews Don’t lower ourselves to the standard of the Americans. We know the decisions were dubious but let’s just deal with it and move on.

[Forest FanBase 🔴⚪️ @ForestFanBase]

Well that’s cleared it up. They’re corrupt and they can say and do what they like regardless of what they’ve said before. They make up the rules as they go along independently of any concerns for the integrity of the game or themselves as there is none. #fifa #corruption

[🔴⚪️⚽️Mike Patch🔴⚪️🌳🇬🇧 @MPatchitt]

@brianhboyle @nffcCHI Go for it. I think you might be able to carry that off

[🔴⚪️⚽️Mike Patch🔴⚪️🌳🇬🇧 @MPatchitt]

I think Joe Hart is onto something here. I hope #England are taking note.

[🔴⚪️⚽️Mike Patch🔴⚪️🌳🇬🇧 @MPatchitt]

@henrywinter Then when you see players covering their mouths talking to opposition players after the whistle that then is a red card offence. How long before we see a red after the whistle. The world has gone to shit.

[🔴⚪️⚽️Mike Patch🔴⚪️🌳🇬🇧 @MPatchitt]

Finally somebody who gets it.

[Kerry Burgess @KerryBurgess]

I think this girl is onto something. It would clear up the confusion, and hand-egg has a nice ring to it...

[🔴⚪️⚽️Mike Patch🔴⚪️🌳🇬🇧 @MPatchitt]

My admiration for this guy grows almost every day of the World Cup. How much longer will FIFA continue without listening to those who play and have played.

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️NEW: Zlatan Ibrahimović on FIFA’s new mouth-covering red card rule: as Almiron was given a red card for covering his mouth in the game between Paraguay and Turkey

“I have seen football at its highest level, the real football. Not this watered-down version they are serving us now. What happened with Almirón? A straight red card for covering his mouth? This is not football anymore. This is a circus run by bureaucrats in suits who have never felt the fire of the pitch.”

“Covering your mouth is now a red card? What is this, Big Brother on the field? FIFA wants to read lips, punish thoughts before they even become words. Next they will put muzzles on players like dogs. Players cannot even talk, cannot even breathe passion without some VAR robot or referee deciding your emotions are illegal. This is dystopian. Football is dying.”

“This rule was born because some players cry every week. One incident in the Champions League and suddenly the whole world must change. But elbow a man, break his leg, or spit — sometimes you get a yellow and a pat on the back. Two-tier football. Protect the protected, punish the rest. I have played in every league and I have seen it.”

On the softness of the modern game:
“Maradona would be sent off in the tunnel. Roy Keane? He would laugh at the referee and walk off with a smile while the stands burn. Pepe would have collected five reds before half-time. Today? Players are becoming actors, not warriors. They fall, they cry, they hide behind rules. Where is the masculinity? Where is the character? Football is not ballet. It is war. And they are turning it into a polite conversation with red cards as punctuation.”

“I, Zlatan, have scored goals that made stadiums shake and said things that made opponents tremble — without hiding. This generation is being raised soft. If you cannot handle words on the pitch, how will you handle life? FIFA is not protecting football. They are burying it. And one day, the real fans will rise and say: enough. Bring back the game.”

[🔴⚪️⚽️Mike Patch🔴⚪️🌳🇬🇧 @MPatchitt]

@ForestFanBase That’s because the CB’s did not give the ball to him so he can do what he does best. Rice & Anderson were not involved as they should be when you play that formation. Also Kane and Bellingham were often too deep

[🔴⚪️⚽️Mike Patch🔴⚪️🌳🇬🇧 @MPatchitt]

@DaveHo1mes 🤣🤣🤣

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

This is the year when the game of two halves became the game of four quarters. And the greatest sport and event was damaged for fistfuls of dollars. Hydration breaks ruin the game’s flow and frustrates fans and viewers. If hydration breaks were solely about player welfare then they would be linked to the temperature in the stadia. It’s a nonsense having a three-minute break in an air-conditioned arena.

Fifa should long ago have established a working party of coaches, sports scientists, national team doctors and Fifpro to agree a set temperature at kickoff, say 25C, which triggers the breaks. That would prove the breaks were for player welfare. At the moment, and to nobody’s surprise, it is widely accepted that these breaks are for US TV to accommodate commercials. Big bucks for the small screen.

Fifa should have thought more about the effect on games and to fan (and viewer) experience when negotiating. Coaches’ desire for a mid-half tactical time-out masquerading as a drinks stop should be resisted anyway. Games have been played for 150 years without needing such intervention. Coaches can shout instructions. And who says that 22 mins and 67 mins is when a coach needs to intervene anyway. It’s nonsense. It’s about money.

Respected and sane footballing voices from Virgil van Dijk to Mauricio Pochettino have spoken out against the breaks. Fifa should listen to them not appear only to listen to the rustle of dollar bills. It’s important that there is resistance to this from all over. Because if we tolerate this, our TV games could be next. BBC can’t do ads, ITV says it won’t follow its US counterparts. But it has been discussed by TV people. It’ll come one day. #FIFAWorldCup.

[Indianapolis Colts @Colts]

happy birthday @JimIrsay. 💙