Let me say this very directly.
Football does not belong to investors. It belongs to the people who fill the stands and who stand on the touchline week in, week out, rain or shine.
The World Cup is not a product. It is the greatest competition in world sport, and it was never anyone's to sell. Dress the deal up however you like. Once you have sold a piece of it, you have sold out.
Football belongs to the fans. It always has, and it always will.
"The greatest human, social and cultural event that mankind has witnessed" 👀
FIFA President Gianni Infantino has praised the 2026 World Cup and thanked Donald Trump for his contribution to the tournament 💬
How Inheritance Tax REALLY Works (& how marriage can save you £240,000)
Just a small clip from my ‘the benefits of marriage and how to max it’ @itvMLshow this week, watch the full show on https://t.co/ymM7rlWk1d
Some Scandinavian PMs bike to work or take the subway, the Romanian and Moldovan presidents just go by regular commercial flights. More or less the same goes for most European heads of state.
JD Vance had 14 planes fly in this motorcade and his security detail to Italy:
Now Trump reneges on his previous support for the UK Chagos Islands deal, completely reversing his previous position to attack Keir Starmer (the subtext clearly being that Starmer supports Denmark on Greenland and criticised Trump’s tariffs)
This is essential reading, especially ahead of the PM’s imminent press conference about Trump’s tariff punishment of UK and other countries that are defending Denmark’s and Greenland’s sovereignty. I know what I want to ask Keir Starmer, but what would you ask?
NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”
War is back in vogue and a zeal for war is spreading. The principle established after the Second World War, which prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others, has been completely undermined. #Peace is no longer sought as a gift and a desirable good in itself. Instead, peace is sought through weapons as a condition for asserting one’s own dominion. This gravely threatens the rule of law, which is the foundation of all peaceful civil coexistence.
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