🚨🗣️NEW: Zlatan Ibrahimović on FIFA’s new mouth-covering red card rule: as Almiron was given a red card for covering his mouth in the game between Paraguay and Turkey
“I have seen football at its highest level, the real football. Not this watered-down version they are serving us now. What happened with Almirón? A straight red card for covering his mouth? This is not football anymore. This is a circus run by bureaucrats in suits who have never felt the fire of the pitch.”
“Covering your mouth is now a red card? What is this, Big Brother on the field? FIFA wants to read lips, punish thoughts before they even become words. Next they will put muzzles on players like dogs. Players cannot even talk, cannot even breathe passion without some VAR robot or referee deciding your emotions are illegal. This is dystopian. Football is dying.”
“This rule was born because some players cry every week. One incident in the Champions League and suddenly the whole world must change. But elbow a man, break his leg, or spit — sometimes you get a yellow and a pat on the back. Two-tier football. Protect the protected, punish the rest. I have played in every league and I have seen it.”
On the softness of the modern game:
“Maradona would be sent off in the tunnel. Roy Keane? He would laugh at the referee and walk off with a smile while the stands burn. Pepe would have collected five reds before half-time. Today? Players are becoming actors, not warriors. They fall, they cry, they hide behind rules. Where is the masculinity? Where is the character? Football is not ballet. It is war. And they are turning it into a polite conversation with red cards as punctuation.”
“I, Zlatan, have scored goals that made stadiums shake and said things that made opponents tremble — without hiding. This generation is being raised soft. If you cannot handle words on the pitch, how will you handle life? FIFA is not protecting football. They are burying it. And one day, the real fans will rise and say: enough. Bring back the game.”
Official trailer for ‘MÉXICO 86’ starring Mexican actor, Diego Luna.
A chaotic story that follows Martín de la Torre, the man who found a way to rise to the top and bring the 1986 World Cup to Mexico by any means necessary.
On Netflix, June 5. 🎬🍿
I can’t stress this enough. GET OUT OF YOUR HOMETOWN. Even if it’s not forever. Move. Travel. See the world. There is more to life than the same 10 people and the same 2 bars.
🚨🇯🇵 JAPAN UNVEILS NEW ANTI-ISLAM LAWS
Halal - BANNED
Large Mosques - BANNED
Call to prayer - BANNED
Praying in the street - BANNED
They've basically said Islam is not welcome in Japan
Go home
Zohran Mamdani has won the race to become the next mayor of New York City.
Mr Mamdani - who will be the first Muslim, first South Asian, and youngest person in a century to be elected as the famous city's mayor - used a victory speech to throw down the gauntlet to Donald Trump.
California has passed a law that bans excessively loud commercials on streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu, and Prime Video.
Starting July 1, 2026, ads must match the average volume of the show or movie they accompany.
Spotify will now allow free users to search and instantly play any track they want.
Prior to this update, non-paying users would have to shuffle through songs to reach the track they wanted to hear.
Another great Netflix production and broadcast team.
Jon Anik was amazing. Andre Ward flawless as usual.
Only oddity was Max Kellerman saying the same scripted narrative 108 times.