Meryem

Equity,Diversity,Inclusion and migration expert. Founder @2SQHMCan ⚽️❤️@ManUtd. Eternelle optimiste. Views are my own. Coeur à gauche 🧡 She/Her/Elle. 🇲🇦🇨🇦

[Hussain Shiyam 🇵🇸❓🎈 @ShiyamHussain]

This is utter bullshit. When Indonesia refused to grant the Israeli under 17 team visa’s for the 2023 U-20 World Cup, FIFA stripped Indonesia’s hosting rights and moved it to Argentina. So @FIFAcom can stop with the lies.

[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.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Our pre-season schedule is set! 🫡

Sat 18 July: Wrexham in Helsinki 🇫🇮
Fri 24 July: Rosenborg in Norway 🇳🇴
Sat 1 Aug: Atleti in Stockholm 🇸🇪
Sat 8 Aug: PSG in Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Wed 12 Aug: Leeds in Dublin 🇮🇪
Sat 15 Aug: AC Milan in Wroclaw 🇵🇱

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

BREAKING: Israeli settlers are attacking the Christian village of Taybeh right now — setting fields on fire, hurling Molotov cocktails at homes, and attempting to set the village gas station ablaze.
https://t.co/QiOAbofNdn

[Ben Jacobs @JacobsBen]

🗣️ Omar Abdulkadir Artan tells @nytimes he had the correct paperwork to enter America.

"I had the right papers and everything. I had the right visa...

"I'm very, very disappointed. I'm just simply a referee who's trying to live his dream, the biggest dream of my life, to come to the World Cup."

[CentreGoals. @centregoals]

🚨🚨| BREAKING: Barcelona have 𝐑𝐔𝐍 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐅𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐒 needed to complete the renovation of Spotify Camp Nou.

Joan Laporta is now set to seek approval from the socios for an extension to the original €1.4 billion financing package in order to finish the project.

[@marca]

[Meryem @MeryemMusic]

@FPLfrasier Pretty sure there is a fishy sponsorship deal with Saudi Arabia that is part of the Gordon deal

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

🚨 Do you understand whats happening with the U.S. World Cup?

Football legend Ian Wright just called it a “World Cup of chaos.”

He’s being polite.

Here’s the INSANE breakdown:

• The most expensive tickets and accommodation in football history. Final tickets hit $8,600. Working class fans entirely priced out..

• African national teams like Senegal treated like criminals on arrival. Shoes off. Bags torn apart. welcomed not with warmth but with humiliation.

• Iran’s squad only permitted to enter and leave on match day.

• Iraq’s striker held and questioned for 7 hours.

• DRC, qualifying for their first World Cup in 52 years, hit with a 21-day quarantine demand over Ebola…. Despite every single player being based in Europe…

• Fans denied. Players denied. Journalists denied.

• One of the BEST REFEREES IN THE WORLD turned away at the airport. Valid documents. Didn’t matter. Wrong ethnicity.

Meanwhile, NINE PEOPLE got shot near England’s World Cup base camp in Kansas City… Days before the tournament begins.

Remember when Qatar hosted the World Cup and the entire Western media ran a four-year moral campaign against it?

Funny how quiet they are now.

Many are calling this the WORST World Cup in history.

The reputational damage will be generational. Thanks Trump.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

And after killing her, they threw Pancake themed parties where they made pancakes celebrating "turning her into a pancake". The Israeli depravity you see on display today is not new. It is not something that started on Oct 7th. It is how the Israeli society has always been!

[Moon Man Utd @Moon_AGD]

Never forget Man Utd scouts recommended Michael Olise to replace Mason Greenwood

But Ten Hag insisted on spending 100M on Antony ..

[عمرو @bt3]

🇺🇸 هكذا يتم استقبال المنتخبات في أمريكا
🇲🇽 هكذا يتم استقبال المنتخبات في المكسيك

[Jεnny @GreekCule]

HOW is a nation that bid to host the World Cup ALLOWED to not admit all the participants in the country? HOW isn't this a PREREQUISITE to let you host the whole thing? What are we even talking about?

[Melissa Reddy @MelissaReddy_]

Gianni Infantino knocked down all the reporting over visa concerns for this World Cup in August 2025: “I think it’s important to clarify this. There is a lot of misconception out there. Everyone will be welcome in Canada, Mexico and the United States for the FIFA World Cup next year.

“There is a process to go through to get visas and so on. This process will be smooth…

“We want to unite the world and we will unite the world next year. The world needs occasions of unity, of bringing teams together, of bringing people together, of bringing fans together... So again everyone will be welcome, be positive and you will see it will be a great, great celebration of the greatest FIFA World Cup ever.”

No, again we are just meant to look the other way and allow this thing we love so much, that we want to enjoy, that we can map our whole lives around, to be used and abused.

Again we are told about unity and inclusion when division, disparity and denial is the reality.

It is a great, great celebration of getting more money whatever it takes, no matter who has to pay the price. The greatest showpiece of allowing - unopposed! - the man who is meant to protect and grow the people’s game into playing celebrity, massaging his own ego and that of heads of state.

The biggest, most expensive, least accessible World Cup ever. The thing we love and all the beautiful pieces of it we’ve lost.

[Mo @husseinkhalifkk]

All the UK journalists, including the bbc who were shouting about how disgraceful the culture of Qatar was in 2022 - where are they now?

[John Wight @JohnWight1]

Even Hitler's Germany did not prevent athletes and officials from entering the country to take part in the 1936 Olympics.

This is pristine racism and @FIFAcom stands disgraced for allowing Trump to disfigure the beautiful game in this way.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Air Canada pilot accused of flying without correct licence https://t.co/xxs4p6t5ba

[Daniel Storey @danielstorey85]

Statement from Omar Artan is far more graceful and reserved than FIFA deserves. It is a stain on this tournament that one of Africa's top officials can be blocked from the biggest month of his career.

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

FIFA issue a release following a week of utterly embarrassing news. What could it be….?

A crypto partner!

[Karin Butler antifascist AF @kaebee23]

WE ARE FUCKING PAYING FOR THIS. Canada is complicit in genocide.

[Cory Le Guen @coryleguen]

Le journaliste @WilliamMolinie n’a pas tweeté une seule fois sur la garde à vue de Bruel où il est entendu pour 13 dossiers.

En revanche, il tweetait chaque heure pendant la garde à vue pour un tweet de Rima Hassan.

Étonnant, non ? (NON) 🤡