🚨🇦🇷🇪🇬 Rio Ferdinand: “Football Needs Fairness, Not Different Rules For Different Teams”
🗣️ “I’ve sat here and watched football for many years, both as a player and as a pundit, and what frustrates supporters the most is inconsistency.
When Argentina go down under a challenge, the whistle seems to come immediately. The officials are quick to spot the foul, quick to stop play and quick to protect them. But when Egypt are on the receiving end of similar incidents, suddenly the game is allowed to continue and everyone is told to move on.
That’s the issue people have tonight. Not the result itself, but the lack of consistency in the decision-making.
Then you look at the build-up to Enzo Fernández’s winning goal. Egypt were screaming for a foul, their players were surrounding the referee, and millions watching expected VAR to at least take a proper look at it. Instead, it felt like everyone in the VAR room had gone to sleep.
What exactly is VAR there for if not to review the biggest moments in the biggest matches?
If that incident happened against Argentina at the other end of the pitch, do you honestly believe it wouldn’t have been checked? I find that very difficult to believe. We’ve seen much softer incidents reviewed throughout this tournament.
That’s where the frustration comes from. Fans just want the same standard applied to every team.
And let’s talk about the disciplinary side of the game. Argentina seem to get away with an awful lot. There are challenges that would normally bring yellow cards, yet the referee appears reluctant to reach for his pocket. It’s almost as if officials are afraid of making decisions that might upset Argentina.
When you look at some of Argentina’s matches in this tournament, there have been several moments where opponents felt hard done by. One incident can be debated, two incidents can be debated, but eventually people start noticing a pattern.
Football cannot afford that perception. The integrity of the game depends on supporters believing that every nation is treated equally.
Whether you’re Argentina, Egypt, Brazil, France or anyone else, the laws of the game should not change depending on the badge on your shirt.
The officials tonight had a responsibility to be fair, balanced and brave. Instead, they have left millions of people questioning why some decisions are given so easily for one side while similar incidents involving the other side are ignored.
Football deserves better than that. The players deserve better than that. And the fans certainly deserve better than that.”
#ARGEGY
The robbery against Egypt was even worse than the one against Cape Verde.
It reached the point where the players and coach openly called out Messi and Argentina for the blatant corruption.
En el minuto 43, Nahuel Molina le da una bofetada en la cara sin balón al jugador egipcio.
Ni una sola repetición, ni un comentario en la retransmisión, al menos en RTVE.
Agresión clara y expulsión perdonada.
Why is Messi crying !?! What the fck are you crying for !? Your cheating Bastard of a country has robbed another Nation a chance of a World Cup.
Not even an ounce of shame.
فهور جدا بالمنتخب و الي قدمه و حسام حسن مدرب كبير و بجد الفيفا مافيا كبيرة لاجل المصالح و المكاسب .. حسبي الله و نعم الوكيل و ان شاء الله هنرجع و نحاول مرة تانية نحقق حلم الطفولة
لعيبة مصر لازم تدخل ماتش الارحنتين مقتنعة اننا نقدر نكسب
دى فرقة لعيب واحد
حتى لو اللعيب ده احسن لعيب فى التاريخ مفيش مانع اننا نكسبهم
دخول الماتش ده بعقد نقص او اننا خسرانين مسبقا حيبقى جريمة