Before #FIFA start pumping the propaganda tonight and telling us all how amazing this #WorldCup has been, let’s remember they oversaw:
- highest ticket prices ever and took a cut from resale sites.
- did nothing about Somalian referee and dozens of staff who were banned from entering the US for no legitimate reason.
- stood by as Iran were forced to train outside the US and travel in on match days.
- overturned red cards after phone calls with the president.
- Americanised the beautiful game with hydration (TV) breaks and 25 mins half time in the final
- guided Argentina through the tournament with less travel, VAR support and blatantly turning a blind due to their aggression and foul play.
Pour rappel, la sélection haïtienne 🇭🇹 n'a pas eu le droit de jouer avec un maillot qui rappelait symboliquement la bataille de Vertières décisive avant l'indépendance du pays car la FIFA a jugé que cela était un "message politique"
C'est à la carte ou à la volonté de la Maison Blanche désormais la "politisation" à la FIFA...
Argentina are the only team out of all 48 participants not to have a single VAR intervention against them, despite committing the most fouls in the tournament. Do you even realize how insane that is?
When the perpetrator is a white Christian man and the victim is a brown Sikh woman, funny how all of those details are left out of western media headlines.
This bit about Kobbie Mainoo done pissed me off. Everyone is a body language expert when it comes to Black men. Upbeat personality? Too loud, unprofessional, lacks decorum. Laid back? You're too moody etc.... These tropes are tired and annoying ngl
England has ballers just like France but the english system dnt wanna scout in poorest areas, streets & estates. They also aint got time for kids with attitudes. Man like Olise is English but had to go thru FOUR diff academies. Cherki wudda got dashed out the English system early
Venezuela 🇻🇪
“They Changed My Daughter’s Last Name and Now She’s Gone”
“They are stealing the children… they are taking the children who are found alone.”
A desperate mother says her daughter was rescued after the earthquake, but when she went to claim her, she was allegedly told the child’s last name had been changed. The little girl has since disappeared.
She claims that many children found alone are being taken, with their identities altered.
Will Elon Musk and other MAGA types be tweeting about this former top rightwing politician in the UK who was just found guilty of being a pedophile and whose wife aided and abetted him in those sick sex crimes against children? If not, why not?
Pure racism from the beginning. Why did he call him Tyrone?? Why would they assume he tried to kill his mum when he just arrived??? The police are completely useless.
This is so heartbreaking; He's just a kid. The pain in his voice is evident.
This is institutional racism in action.
Daryl McLune, 16 at the time, was arrested in Wandsworth in July 2021 on suspicion of attempted murder after his mum, Annette McLune, jumped from the roof of their flat in a suicide attempt.
He'd been at his grandma's and cycled home to find his mum critically injured. He was then handcuffed in the street and held for nearly 24 hours, despite not being involved.
Police later found a suicide note and razor blades showing it was self-harm, and he was released without charge. The experience left him with PTSD and affected his schooling.
He later sued the Met Police, and a jury found he was racially discriminated against and treated less fairly than a non-Black boy would have been, awarding him £130,000.
His barrister said it wasn't careful policing, it was a child in crisis being wrongly treated as a suspect, and that discrimination can be unconscious.