William D. ||*||

La pace prevede rispetto e riconoscimento reciproci

[Joueurs Belges 🇧🇪 @JoueursBE]

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[deffonottom @Altymcaltalt3]

This red card business is just a microcosm of American cultural viewpoint that any act done by America is an innately righteous act because America does it

An awful despicable culture

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

"Yes, I regularly discuss matters related to the FIFA World Cup with the President of the United States" - And when you were asked to suspend the Genocidal Israeli Regime from football, you said we shouldn't mix football + politics. You Infantino are a corrupt Hypocrite...

[Lars Christensen @MaMoMVPY]

This is basically all wrong. In Europe there still is respect for the rule of law. In the US the rules will be changed by the King when it suits him. And Americans now more or less accept that this is ok.

[Hater Central @TheHateCentral]

Flo Balogun vs Belgium:

0 Goals/Assists
0 Key Passes
0 Dribbles
8 Possessions Lost
Served Suspension on Field

SERVED THE SUSPENSION ON THE FIELD, INTEGRITY. 👏👏👏

[William D. ||*|| @_BillyDwight_]

@MacAlgoTrader As a European, I never want to have my rightfully disqualified best player on the pitch just to try to win in spite of rules. Recent history shows that things are clearly different overseas. Adieu.

[Ataque Futbolero @AtaqueFutbolero]

🤬🇩🇪 Jürgen Klopp, DURÍSIMO contra Gianni Infantino y Donald Trump:

“Estas dos personas, que NO SABEN NADA DE FUTBOL, no deberían meterse en esto.

Fue una tarjeta roja. NO HAY NADA QUE DISCUTIR. Lo lamento por Balogun, porque no fue intencional. Pero es lo que dice el reglamento. 

Si la Casa Blanca realmente intervino, entonces es ABSURDO. El fútbol es nuestro, NO DE ELLOS”

[@MagentaTV]

[Gabriel Lattanzio @GabLattanzio]

Dear American friends. Yes, that's it. We're terrified because your very best player is the fourth best player on the seventh best team in the fourth best league. Has nothing to do with you thinking stepping on an opponent's leg is fine or that your president is a corrupt maniac.

[José Luis Sánchez. Europa/ Europe🇪🇺 @joseluiis]

@ellencarmichael #fifamafia
🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪

[William D. ||*|| @_BillyDwight_]

4-1. Sometimes you are the bug. Make peace with it. Goodbye.

[Ellen Carmichael @ellencarmichael]

The most interesting part of the red card saga isn't the ruling. It's how differently Americans and Europeans process the idea that they might have been wronged.

Europeans are fundamentally different from Americans in one particular way: they expect life to be aggravating and at times unfair. It's just a fact of moving through the world. I joke that in Europe, the customer is always wrong. You didn't read the fine print. The only pharmacy in town is closed every other Tuesday for three hours, and even if the times weren't posted, that's still your problem. Too bad if you want the bill, because the waiter's on his union-mandated half-hour smoke break, and you're just going to have to wait.

To quote the great Mark Knopfler: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. There's something freeing in that. Things are less in your control, so there's less angst in managing your expectations.

In America, things couldn't be more different. We simply can't accept a wrong left unrighted.

The flight attendant sneezed handing you a drink on your one-hour flight? 15,000 frequent flyer miles. Didn't like your appetizer? A replacement is on the way, and the whole course comes off the bill. There's a reason our interstates are lined with trial lawyer billboards.

Europeans have turned complaining into a continental pastime with no expectation that the universe owes them a remedy for their grief. You gripe about the train being late, your friends nod solemnly and everyone goes back to their apéro. In America, we launch a full-blown investigation of the train system, sue the government (and its contractors) that allowed for the tardiness and hold a Congressional hearing on the state of national infrastructure.

So to an objective observer, the red card shouldn't have happened, and VAR was a travesty. To Americans, our star player shouldn't be unfairly banned from a match we couldn't afford to lose for a card he so obviously didn't deserve.

Who cares that FIFA used a little-used reversal to fix it. Who cares that other people are mad about it. We. Were. Wronged. It was unjust. It must be corrected. We would accept nothing less.

Europeans waxing poetic about the sanctity of the game are, of course, talking about a governing body whose last tournament host was decided via confirmed cash bribes — one that imposed dress codes on women, shrugged off widespread allegations of modern slavery and reconfigured the entire tournament calendar to suit the host country. Which is exactly the point. If you've made peace with all of that, at least enough to watch the tournament four years later, a probationary suspension isn't actually a scandal.

Maybe that's the real divide. Over millennia, Europeans have made peace with being the bug. Americans have never once considered it, and apparently, we're not about to start now.

[William D. ||*|| @_BillyDwight_]

@ellencarmichael American mindset is the inability to accept being wrong. Balogun was a crystal clear red card. End of case. And goodbye.

[William D. ||*|| @_BillyDwight_]

@ellencarmichael Now, repeat that without crying

[William D. ||*|| @_BillyDwight_]

@ellencarmichael A pointless large amount of bullshit. But you're American, after all.

[Kara @UTDKarra]

Repost if you think Gianni Infantino is the worst FIFA president ever.

[Joueurs Belges 🇧🇪 @JoueursBE]

Honte à la commune de Bruxelles de ne pas prévoir UNE SEULE fanzone de nuit pour les matchs de la Belgique dans cette coupe du monde.

C’est la coupe du monde bordel.

[William D. ||*|| @_BillyDwight_]

@ZZiliani Condivido al 100% il tuo pensiero. Ci vorrebbe un po' di serietà e di coerenza da parte di tutti. Si tratta di un gioco, ok, ma i giochi funzionano se esistono delle regole. Tanta stima, e spero che almeno tu sia coerente. Ma ancor di più spero che Pochettino abbia una dignità.

[Paolo Ziliani @ZZiliani]

Trump ordina a Infantino di togliere la squalifica al bomber USA Balogun e Infantino obbedisce: è la fine del calcio. D'ora in poi non leggerete qui una sola parola in più sul vergognoso torneo
Se il mondo del calcio fosse una cosa seria, le nazionali ancora in lizza al Mondiale in USA dovrebbero fare le valigie e tornare in patria: invece non succederà e sarà la peggiore della sconfitte

https://t.co/7utxDDIrHe

Sono felice di avere scritto in chiave negativa, e solo in chiave negativa, del Mondiale 2026 prim'ancora che il torneo cominciasse. Ma dopo la baracconata di Trump che ordina a Infantino di togliere la squalifica allo statunitense Balogun e di Infantino che s'inginocchia e risponde obbedisco, avendo la baracconata oltrepassato la soglia minima della decenza per me il torneo non esiste più. Da oggi in avanti non leggerete, sui miei profili, una sola parola in più sull'orripilante circo FIFA: cui auguro che tutto possa andare male.

[William D. ||*|| @_BillyDwight_]

@pisto_gol Condivido al 100% il tuo pensiero. Ci vorrebbe un po' di serietà e di coerenza da parte di tutti. Si tratta di un gioco, ok, ma i giochi funzionano se esistono delle regole. Tanta stima, e spero che almeno tu sia coerente. Ma ancor di più spero che Pochettino abbia una dignità.

[William D. ||*|| @_BillyDwight_]

@MadridSpot @UEFA You must mean Real, right? 😂

[Stefano Barazzetta @stebaraz]

Finirà che i mondiali in Russia e in Qatar saranno più regolari di quelli negli USA.

Ma d'altronde.