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[MotorRacingPassion @MotorRacingPas1]

@MV33Racing Shut up!

[MotorRacingPassion @MotorRacingPas1]

@MCGOPLD17 @RepLisaMcClain Who funded this guy? IRAN?

[MotorRacingPassion @MotorRacingPas1]

@RepLisaMcClain Beyond stupid. Has he ever had a job?

[MotorRacingPassion @MotorRacingPas1]

@Washington_Rep @clashreport This is not social democracy, it's typical communism. Will be interesting.

[ᜰ @markklfc]

Thomas Tuchel on England producing their best FIFA World Cup performance in 60 years by finishing 3rd.

🗣️ “People spent months telling me I wasn’t the right man for England. They questioned every decision, every lineup and every tactical change. Today, they can look at the facts. England have just produced their best World Cup campaign in 60 years.”

“They wanted me out after one defeat. They ignored everything we built, the mentality, the discipline and the progress this team made. That’s football everyone talks when you lose, but they go quiet when you prove them wrong.”

“We leave this tournament with a bronze medal, but more importantly, we leave with belief. We beat top teams, we played fearless football and we showed England can compete with anyone in the world.”

“I never doubted these players, even when everyone else did. They responded like warriors. They took the criticism personally and answered it on the pitch, not through interviews or excuses.”

“To everyone who said I wasn’t good enough for this job keep talking. While you were writing us off, we were making history. This is England’s best World Cup performance in six decades, and nobody can erase that. We came here to restore pride, and that’s exactly what we’ve done.”

[grandson @Grandsoncr7]

🗣️ Zlatan Ibrahimović:

“I’m going to be honest here. Even as someone who loves Messi, this World Cup has looked like a tournament prepared for Argentina to win. When I watch other matches and then watch Argentina’s games, it makes me wonder whether the rules are different for Argentina’s players. They don’t play like a team that came to play football; they play as if it’s a karate competition. Yet despite all of that, the referees don’t give them cards.

I have seen so many challenges that deserved yellow or red cards, but the referees refused to show them. For Argentina’s second goal, Messi stepped on Spence, and VAR didn’t review it. Yet against Egypt, VAR disallowed Egypt’s goal for the exact same reason. The same thing has happened in other matches they have played.

I don’t think it’s fair to say this World Cup has been fair because everything points to the fact that they want Argentina to win so badly. It’s very shameful that FIFA has not looked into all of this.”

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Mbappe on France’s 2-0 defeat to Spain:

• Reporter: Kylian, a difficult night for France. A 2-0 defeat in the World Cup semi-final. From the pitch, what did Spain do that made it so difficult for you?

Kylian Mbappe🗣️: First of all, congratulations to Spain. They deserved the victory. It’s frustrating because when you play against a team like that, you spend so much energy chasing the ball that by the time you finally get it, you’re already exhausted. That’s the reality.

• Reporter: You looked isolated for long periods. Was that because France couldn’t find you, or because of the way Spain defended?

Mbappe: It’s both, but mostly because of how Spain play. To be honest, playing Spain today felt almost the same as playing Barcelona. The style is very similar. They are so technically good on the ball that they don’t just keep possession, they suffocate you with it. Every player is comfortable receiving under pressure, every pass has a purpose, and they make the pitch feel twice as big when they have the ball and half as big when you have it.

As a forward, there were moments where I looked around and realized I hadn’t touched the ball for several minutes. Not because my teammates didn’t want to find me, but because Spain simply didn’t let us breathe. They recycle possession so quickly that you spend most of the game defending instead of attacking.

People always talk about goals and individual performances, but sometimes football is decided before you even reach the final third. If you can’t keep the ball, you can’t create chances. Today, they controlled every rhythm of the match, and we never managed to break it.

This hurts because we know we’re better than what we showed, but credit where it’s due. Spain didn’t beat us only with talent, they beat us with patience, technique and personality. Against a team that plays football like that, if you’re even five percent below your level, they make you look ordinary.”

—🎙️Mixed Zone

[Mario @PawlowskiMario]

Great news 🇪🇺vs🇷🇺

Nine countries, (Estonia, Netherlands, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Sweden, Romania, Finland, and Denmark) just proposed to cut off funding to the most corrupt International Olympic Committee (IOC).

[MotorRacingPassion @MotorRacingPas1]

@TeleFootball He is right - punditry and division is the secret sauce of the britsh media - fed by the betting industry.

[Martyn Ziegler @martynziegler]

There are 18 members of FIFA's disciplinary committee but the unprecedented decision to lift Balogun's automatic ban was taken by just one person - the chairman Mohammad Al Kamali of UAE. No one else was consulted.
Full story: https://t.co/DbqEmcPlOT

[ᜰ @markklfc]

Micah Richards on the officiating controversies in Croatia vs Portugal and England vs Norway.

🗣️ “I’ve had enough of this. Football cannot keep changing the rules depending on the match. Either the technology works the same for everyone, or don’t pretend it’s there to protect the game. Right now, the inconsistency is making a mockery of the biggest tournament in football.”

“Against Portugal, Croatia had a crucial goal ruled out because the ball sensor detected a touch. Fine. Then explain to me why, in England vs Norway, we’re told the sensor detected nothing when many people believed the ball had struck the camera cable before Jude Bellingham’s goal. If the ball touched the cable, the game should have been stopped immediately. You can’t have one standard on Tuesday and a completely different one on Wednesday.”

“Then you look at Norway’s disallowed goal. I’ve watched it over and over again. The contact between Haaland and Anderson was minimal. That wasn’t enough to wipe out a goal in a World Cup knockout game. Football is becoming so obsessed with finding reasons to cancel goals that we’re forgetting what real fouls actually look like.”

“How are players supposed to trust the system when nobody seems to know how it’s being applied? One match the technology is treated as absolute truth, the next match it’s apparently ignored. That’s not consistency that’s chaos.”

“Norway have every right to be furious. They didn’t just lose a football match they leave wondering whether the same laws of the game were applied equally. That’s a terrible look for the sport.”

“And don’t tell me people would react the same way if another one of football’s biggest nations had been on the wrong end of these decisions. The outrage would be deafening. FIFA and the officials have serious questions to answer because fans deserve transparency, players deserve consistency and football deserves far better than this.”

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

Israel had a problem, and Germany had a solution. Israel needs more manufacturing capacity for Iron Dome components. Volkswagen, having failed to establish itself as a leader in electric vehicles and bleeding market share to Chinese imports, has capacity to spare. So the two problems found each other: Volkswagen’s management board green-lit converting a production line to defense manufacturing under a deal with Israel’s Rafael, saving thousands of German jobs in the process. A win-win.

Until the Qataris intervened and sank the deal.

Why do the Qataris have a say in what German factories build? Because, according to Bild, the Qatari sovereign wealth fund holds 10.4 percent of Volkswagen’s shares and 17 percent of its voting rights—and it vetoed the deal for one reason: the company slated to manufacture at the plant is Israeli. Qatar spent years funding Israel’s enemies and is now spending its equity blocking Israel from intercepting the missiles it paid for.

Volkswagen confirmed that its Qatari shareholders vetoed the cooperation at the Osnabrück plant but said it would keep seeking partnerships to save the site. Good luck to the 2,300 workers employed there—all facing layoffs by the end of 2027.

The Qataris had help, of course. Peace activists and opposition parties had criticized the conversion from the start, insisting Volkswagen manufacture only for the civilian market—never mind that everyone in Germany has understood for over a year that tens of thousands of jobs are gone without exactly this kind of reform. The protests intensified once the partner turned out to be Israeli, with radical left-wing activists, backed by the Left Party, declaring it “a deal that the German public cannot accept” given Netanyahu’s military activity across the Middle East.

And this is not just about Volkswagen. According to Bild, the $4.2 billion deal for German shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd to acquire Israel’s Zim is also apparently collapsing—and here too, senior Israeli sources point to Gulf money inside the German corporation: the Qatari sovereign wealth fund holds 12.3 percent of Hapag-Lloyd, the Saudi fund another 10.2 percent.

Nor is the creeping problem exclusive to Germany. As FDD’s Natalie Ecanow has documented, the state of 330,000 citizens, half the size of New Jersey, has invested some 400 billion dollars in the United States—roughly 1.2 million dollars per Qatari citizen. From defense and energy to basic infrastructure and manufacturing, the Qatari octopus has slipped its tentacles into countless sectors of the U.S. economy. As the Volkswagen case demonstrates, these investments can pay more than one kind of dividend.

[Eva Bellou @evampellou]

This is a scandal in my eyes.

There is simply no foul by Erling Haaland on Elliot Anderson. Norway’s second goal should have stood. Instead, it’s ruled out. ❌

Fifteen minutes later, Norway hit the post. Sander Berge goes for the rebound with Ezri Konsa on his back, gets dragged down, and it’s a clear penalty. Arguably even a red card. The incident isn’t even reviewed. 🤯

Two huge decisions in a match where World Cup qualification is still on the line.

Credit to Norway for standing tall despite some dreadful officiating tonight. 🇳🇴👏

#NORENG #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup2026 #Norway #England #Haaland #Football

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Deeply saddened by the news of the passing of United States Senator Lindsey Graham. Lindsey was a true defender of freedom and the values that make our world safer.

He visited Ukraine ten times during the years of Russia's full-scale invasion and was here with our people when it was most needed. We remained in constant dialogue, and I will miss our conversations. We met twice in just the past week.

A staunch advocate for bipartisan and bicameral support for Ukraine, in recent weeks, he had been working on important initiatives that could help bring peace closer, including stronger sanctions against Russia. We will always be especially grateful for the recognition of our people and words of admiration for the courage of Ukraine’s defenders.

America and the world have lost a determined leader.

Our condolences go out to Lindsey’s family, loved ones, and everyone who had the privilege of working alongside him.

[Arsenal Reveled @Arsenalreveals]

💣🚨 BREAKING: Declan Rice fought back tears as he reflected on his emotional embrace with Arsenal captain Martin Ødegaard after the quarter-final.

🗣️ Declan Rice:

"When the final whistle went, everything else the score, the rivalry, the countries we represented just faded away. All I could see was my brother standing there with heartbreak in his eyes, and in that moment, my heart broke too."

"We've been through so much together at Arsenal. We've suffered after painful defeats, celebrated unforgettable victories, and pushed each other to become better every single day. He's more than my captain—he's someone I truly look up to. Tonight we wore different shirts, but that will never change what we have."

"I ran straight to him because I wanted him to know he wasn't alone. I wanted him to feel that hug and know how much I care about him."

"Football can be incredibly cruel, but some bonds are stronger than any result. I'm proud of him—not just as a footballer, but as a leader, a fighter, and an incredible person. Before long, we'll be back at the Emirates, standing side by side again and chasing our dreams together."

"Norway until the end for him. England until the end for me. But Arsenal… Arsenal is forever. I love you, Captain. ❤️🤍"

#NORENG #AFC

[BigMoh jr @Koladoskidculer]

🚨 Jurgen Klopp on Sørloth’s wasted chance:

“This is exactly why it’s not always advisable to play with two strikers. Yes, it can work, and when it works it looks brilliant — but there are moments like this that show the risk.

Strikers, by nature, think about goals first. It’s instinct. When you have two of them, there is always that small competition in their minds — ‘I want to score, I want to be the one.’ It’s completely normal, I understand it, I was around strikers my whole life.

But in that situation, 2 against 1, it has to be a goal. This is something every team in the world trains every single day. If that’s a winger in that position, the first thought is usually the pass. That’s the difference.

And look, I also understand the other side — when you have someone like Haaland in your team, of course you want to work for him, you want to score yourself, you want to be part of it. That’s football, that’s emotion.

But chances like this, in a knockout game, you don’t joke with them. You simply cannot.

Imagine Norway go 2–0 up in that moment — the whole game changes. The confidence, the belief, the energy… it explodes. And suddenly England are in real trouble, maybe even questioning everything they planned.

These are the moments that decide big matches. Not tactics on the board — decisions in seconds on the pitch.”

[MotorRacingPassion @MotorRacingPas1]

@Rory_Talks_Ball The antennas receiving the signals from the ball are down on the turf. Probably out of range to receive the signal, hence it did not happen - or plainly lack of understanding how it works.

[MotorRacingPassion @MotorRacingPas1]

@D_Thon Antennene er nede på banen i høyde med gresset. De får ingen signaler fra ballen i den høyden selv om sensoren skulle gi et signal.

[MotorRacingPassion @MotorRacingPas1]

@lbertozzi @KrisLokberg det ser ut som om grunnen til at sensoren i ballen ikke gir noe signal til VAR kan være at den er utenfor "range". Antennene er alle på bakken og senderen i ballen er ikke sterk nok i forhold til høyden over bakken. Skandale! Denne bør du ta videre!

[Rеvеn @RevenRV]

Este burro ha evitado que Noruega esté en semifinales de un mundial.