.@realDonaldTrump, do the right thing. Executive order for complete and total physical removal of Balogun's red card.
We'll worry about the courts later.
🚨 Zlatan Ibrahimović on the inconsistency of VAR after Folarin Balogun’s red card compared to the earlier Lionel Messi challenge against Algeria:
🗣️ “Now we see the inconsistency. One player is protected, another is exposed. That is the biggest problem in football today.”
“If Balogun’s challenge is a straight red card, then people have every right to ask why similar incidents are judged differently. The rules should not change depending on the name on the back of the shirt.”
“This decision exposes the rigidity of VAR, but also its inconsistency. VAR was introduced to remove controversy, yet too often it creates even bigger arguments.”
“Football cannot have two standards—one for the biggest stars and another for everyone else. Either the law is the law, or it means nothing.”
“The fans don’t ask for perfection. They ask for consistency. They want to know that every player, whether it’s Messi, Balogun or anyone else, is judged by exactly the same standard.”
“When supporters start questioning whether reputation influences decisions, that’s dangerous for the credibility of the game. Trust in officiating disappears.”
“VAR should make football fairer, not make people wonder why identical situations end with completely different outcomes. That’s the conversation everyone will be having after this.”
@libsoftiktok You know when you see random shit on X/Twitter that seems to be so outrageous that you have to calm down and then go check to find out if it’s actually true before overreacting and freaking out… welp… holy shit. This is straight up EVIL shit.
@UtdForever7@ManUtd There’s no way we can extend Luke Shaw, he’s already lost the ability to overlap consistently and that was only playing 1 game a week. Plus, Martinez and Fernandez… we can’t sell either and can’t extend either long term - so value and transfer fees are difficult to plan.
@Scott_Pert 7 years ago they were selling Manchester United kits at EPCOT at Disney World. If we bought players to start winning big trophies again, we’d be the 2nd biggest club in the world almost immediately.