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[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Does referee case show Fifa has lost control of its own World Cup? https://t.co/BoqbS2vk3N

[Mirror Football @MirrorFootball]

🚨Gianni Infantino has shamelessly aligned football's governing body with Donald Trump's administration and now the 2026 World Cup's legacy could be one of division and disharmony

✍️|@felixkeith

https://t.co/SiePLWLJ5q

[Footy Shirt Sean @FootyShirtSean]

-Shootings near the England camp
-Japan having to move twice due to terrible facilities
-Players and refs can't even get into the country
-The ball doesn't bounce on the pitches
-$150 trains to get to stadiums that aren't fit for purpose

They've had 8 years prep for this 😭

[Lewis Bower @LewisBower2021]

Liverpool U21 goalkeeper Armin Pecsi made his senior international debut this evening for Hungary after coming from the bench in the 61st minute. He kept a clean-sheet.

He is one of 4 Liverpool players aged 21 and under to make their senior national debut this week.

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️ 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Emmanuel Petit on why Didier Deschamps needs to drop Mbappe to the bench and focus France attack for the World Cup on dembele, Olise, Doue and Cherki:

“Didier Deschamps has to make the decision nobody in France dares to make: put Kylian Mbappe on the bench.

People will be shocked, but tell me where he actually fits in this team. He’s not a natural No.9. He’s not a No.10. He doesn’t play like a true left winger anymore and he doesn’t contribute enough defensively to justify playing elsewhere. France have Dembele, Olise, Cherki, Doue, Akliouche, Barcola, players who are more technical, more fluid, and more compatible with each other.

What happened against Northern Ireland yesterday is exactly the problem. Dembele was supposed to be the creative hub, yet he was almost invisible. Why? Because your striker touched the ball three times more than your playmaker while lacking the qualities of a false 9. Mbappe keeps dropping into spaces that belong to others, disrupting the structure instead of improving it.

I can’t criticize Dembele for that performance because he was given an impossible task. He wasn’t bad, but he couldn’t influence the game either. How can your No.10 dictate play when your center-forward constantly occupies the same zones without providing the link-up qualities required?

France today reminds me of Portugal with Cristiano Ronaldo at the end of his career. The team bends itself around one superstar, and the collective suffers. The difference is Ronaldo was almost 40. Mbappe is only 27 and France are already facing the same dilemma.

Look at the chemistry between Olise, Cherki, Doué and Dembélé whenever they combine. The football is faster, cleaner and more unpredictable. Then everything slows down because the entire attack becomes focused on finding Mbappé.

If Deschamps keeps selecting him based on status instead of performance and tactical fit, France won’t win anything. In fact, they could go out much earlier than people expect. Sometimes the biggest problem in a great team isn’t the weakest player, it’s the biggest name.”

YT- Asumsi

[Financial Times @FT]

Fifa’s resale portal currently lists 176,000 tickets for the opening 'group' phase of the competition, when each team plays three others. https://t.co/UebmIHCSVl

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The USA has just withdrawn ALL the World Cup tickets supplied to Iran, meaning that none of their supporters will be able to attend their games.

Donald Trump is banning Referees and banning supporters, he is trying to fix the World Cup.

The USA have to be disqualified.

[Melissa Reddy @MelissaReddy_]

Gianni Infantino in 2017, talking about the bidding process for 2026 with particular reference to the travel bans the US had in place then:

“Teams who qualify for a World Cup need to have access to the country, otherwise there is no World Cup. That is obvious.

“We are now in the process of defining the bid requirements. In the world there are many countries who have bans, travel bans, visa requirements and so on and so forth. It’s obvious when it comes to FIFA competitions, any team, including the supporters and officials of that team, who qualify for a World Cup need to have access to the country, otherwise there is no World Cup.

“The requirements will be clear. And then each country can make up their decision, whether they want to bid or not based on the requirements.”

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

Russia has never attacked the EU.

Not once.

Since the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, we had peace.

Russia sold us cheap gas, traded honestly, and stayed a calm neighbor. No threats. No invasions.

Then Washington’s neocons and London smelled blood. They tried to loot Russia in the chaotic 90s with shock therapy and oligarchs.

When that failed, they turned Ukraine a non-NATO, non-EU country into their proxy battlefield to bleed Russia dry.

Ordinary Ukrainians? Just collateral. Their lives destroyed for American hegemony, more NATO bases, more expensive US LNG for us, and keeping Europe weak and dependent.

Europe was a quiet neighborhood. Russia was the big reliable house next door offering fuel and food.

Than the overseas bully says: “Use the neighbor kid’s yard as a battlefield to smash the strong house. Don’t care about the kid we’ll wave flags.”

Our spineless EU leaders opened the gates, cheered, and cut our own electricity to “punish” Russia.

Now the kid’s yard is ruined, the strong house got tougher, and our neighborhood is paying insane bills.

This isn’t defense. It’s suicide for empire dollars.

Russia didn’t march west!

NATO marched east.

We’re sacrificing Ukrainian lives to keep America on top.

Europe First.

Real energy. Real borders. Real sovereignty.

Stop letting foreign neocons play with our continent.

Russia isn’t the enemy but blind obedience to Washington is.

[Nima Tavallaey Roodsari @NimaTavRood]

So far at the 2026 FIFA Epstein Cup before a ball kicked:
- Senegal & Uzbekistan squads treated like criminals upon arrival given full cavity searches;
- Africa’s best referee sent back to Somalia despite having a diplomatic passport;
- Iraq team photographer sent back despite valid visa;
- AIPS (international sport journalist association) calling on FIFA to sort out unacceptable visa issues of African & Iranian journalists;
- 90% of Moroccan fans with tickets denied entry
- 14 members of Iran backroom staff denied visas

Not a word from Gianni ”today I feel black/gay/disabled etc” Infantino.

[ᜰ 🇦🇷 @markklfc]

Jürgen Klopp on Divock Origi retiring from professional football:

🗣️ “When people talk about great Liverpool players, they often talk about the biggest names, the Ballon d'Or winners, the captains and the superstars who played every single week.

But Divock Origi was different. He created a legacy in a completely different way and became one of the most loved players this club has ever had.

He had a special gift for appearing exactly when Liverpool needed him most and turning impossible moments into unforgettable memories. Somehow, whenever the pressure was at its highest, Divock found a way to make something extraordinary happen.

The goals against Barcelona, the goals against Everton, the Champions League moments — these are not just goals. These are pieces of Liverpool history that supporters will remember for the rest of their lives.

What made Divock special was not just his quality, but his mentality. In modern football, many players become frustrated when they are not starting every week, but he was never like that.

He never complained, never created problems, and never stopped believing that his moment would come. Every single day in training he worked with the same hunger and professionalism.

Some players need to play every week to feel important. Some need constant attention and recognition.

Divock could wait for months, step onto the pitch for ten minutes, and change the course of a season. That mentality is incredibly rare and something every manager dreams of having in a squad.

The dressing room loved him, the supporters adored him, and his teammates trusted him completely because they knew he could deliver when it mattered most.

Football will remember trophies and statistics. Liverpool will remember the man who always seemed to arrive when history needed a hero and when miracles were required.

For me, Divock Origi will always be a Liverpool legend, not because he played the most games, but because he gave Liverpool some of its most unforgettable moments.”

[Matheus Gomes @matheuspggomes]

Esse é o presidente da FIFA entregando o "Prêmio da Paz da FIFA" a Donald Trump, em dezembro de 2025.

6 meses depois, às vésperas da Copa, os EUA já:

- proibiram que a seleção do Irã durma e treine nos EUA;
- interrogaram o principal jogador do Iraque e o fotógrafo oficial da seleção, que foi deportado;
- negaram a entrada e deportaram o principal árbitro africano escolhido pela FIFA para a Copa;

Agora dá pra entender?

A FIFA está de joelhos para Trump e permite que ele transforme a Copa de 2026 numa peça de propaganda do seu governo e da sua ideologia.

A Copa ainda nem começou, é verdade, mas o "fascismo à lá Donald Trump" já mostra tudo que tem de ruim ao mundo.

[𝗕𝗼𝗯𝗯𝘆™ @bobby_role]

Divock Origi has retired from football. This video always gives me goosebumps ❤️

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

In Plato’s Republic, Socrates describes democracy as a dangerous system prone to tyranny, a view later echoed by Aristotle. Democracy, as commonly understood today, was often associated with mob rule.

- "Does democracy destroy itself through its excessive greed for the very good it defines as its highest value?"

- "What good do you mean?"

- "Freedom," I said. "Because, in my view, in a democratic city, you will hear that freedom is the greatest good, and for this reason alone, anyone would want to live there."

- "Yes," he said, "this is said, and very often."

- "But isn’t it," I continued, "precisely this greed for freedom and the neglect of everything else that transforms a democracy into something else, something that eventually prepares the way for tyranny?"

- "How so?" he asked.

- "When a democracy, in its insatiable thirst for freedom, finds itself with reckless leaders acting as poor wine-pourers, they intoxicate the people with an excess of unrestrained liberty. And when the rulers fail to grant even more freedom, they are punished, denounced as corrupt and oligarchic."

- "Yes, indeed, that happens," he agreed.

- "Citizens who still respect authority are scorned as servile and unworthy, while those who behave like rulers, even though they are subjects, are praised both publicly and privately. Doesn’t this excessive freedom inevitably push the democracy to its most extreme state?"

- "How could it not?"

- "And, my friend," I said, "this chaos eventually enters people’s homes - until even the animals become anarchic."

- "What do you mean?" he asked.

- "Well," I said, "fathers begin to act like children, fearing their own sons. Sons treat their fathers as equals, showing neither respect nor fear - so they can be ‘free.’ Foreigners and metics (resident aliens) begin to claim equal rights with citizens. And citizens become indistinguishable from foreigners."

- "That is true," he admitted.

- "And there is even more," I continued. "In such a city, teachers fear their students and try to appease them, while students mock their teachers and disregard their authority. The young demand to be treated as equals to the old, even challenging them in speech and actions. And the elders, seeking to fit in, lower themselves to the level of the youth, engaging in jokes and imitating them, fearing they might seem ‘out of touch’ or ‘tyrannical.’"

- "Absolutely," he agreed.

- "But the height of this abuse of freedom is when slaves demand the same rights as their masters, and women claim absolute equality with men in all things, and vice versa."

Plato's Republic, Book VIII (562b-c, 563b)

- "For unrestrained liberty seems to lead to nothing else but the most extreme slavery, both for the individual and for the city."

- "Of course," he said.

- "Then, by natural consequence, tyranny arises from no other political system than democracy; from unlimited freedom comes the greatest and most brutal form of servitude."

- "That certainly makes sense," he said.

Plato’s Republic (564a)

Unlimited freedoms, when untethered from any shared moral order or reciprocal restraint, devolves inexorably into tyranny through the very mechanisms it claims to liberate. In the absence of limits, liberty mutates into raw license. The strong exploit the weak without consequence, appetites run unchecked, and society fragments into a war of all against all where no one’s rights are truly secure.

Today's democracy is dangerous. Someone can be a traitor, publicly shout that he wants to destroy his own country, kill his political opponents, and replace you racially and culturally because he hates himself, and yet he remains free to harm you and the future of your nation. Today's democracy protects him and may even reward him. When patience finally runs out, the new generations will seek an authoritarian leader. Don't act surprised about what drove them there. It will be the fault of your own impunity and stupidity.

Homer Pavlos

[Divock Origi @DivockOrigi]

My purpose in the game is fulfilled ⭐️

I lived out my childhood dreams, played on the biggest stages, won the biggest trophies. Grateful to God for all of it.

To all my fans, the clubs, my teammates and my family: this will forever be ours. Thank you.

The mission is complete. Now I step into my next calling.

More of the journey to come.

Love,

Divock Origi

[george @StokeyyG2]

Somali referee Omar Artan, who was set to referee at the World Cup, was denied entry to the United States.

He received a diplomatic passport from the Somali embassy but was turned away upon his arrival.

Omar Artan was elected Best African Referee in 2025.

[Polymarket Sports @PolymarketSport]

🚨JUST IN: John McGinn on the World Cup ticket prices:

"I find it sad - people live for the national team, it's their life. Those fans deserve to be there as much as we do”

[Paul🥷 @l4pablo]

“it’s the most ridiculous football moment I’ve ever witnessed.’

Jürgen Klopp reminiscing about that night against Barcelona. The quick-thinking from Trent, the instinctive finish from Divock Origi, and one of the greatest comebacks in Champions League history.

Klopp named it his favourite game as Liverpool manager, and it’s hard to argue really.

[Richard @ricwe123]

When the war in Ukraine is finally over, with half the country dead or maimed, Volodymyr Zelensky has sold out his country and will end up living in Miami with billions of dollars in the bank........

[England @England]

"I'm speechless!" 🦁❤️