Arturo Vidal on the officiating controversies in Bayern Munich vs PSG across both legs, explaining why Bayern were “robbed” and breaks down the rules behind every controversial incident:
🗣️ “Everyone saw it. Don’t gaslight football fans and pretend this was ‘just bad luck’ for Bayern. Over two legs, the officiating was a complete disgrace. A club fights for 180 minutes at the highest level and then everything gets decided by inconsistency, politics, and fear of making decisions against PSG. People are tired of pretending this is normal.
First leg, Alphonso Davies handball. Explain to me how that is a penalty? The ball deflects off his thigh first and then hits the arm from close range. According to IFAB guidance, deflections at close distance with no reaction time are NOT supposed to be punished the same way as deliberate handballs. But suddenly VAR jumps in to help PSG? That decision changed the momentum of the tie immediately. If that’s a penalty, then defenders should just cut their arms off before entering the box.
Then in the Return leg, with Kane offside incident. This one is unbelievable. The assistant referee raises the flag early and the referee blows immediately before the attack even finishes. Modern officiating instructions are crystal clear:
if it’s tight, LET THE PLAY CONTINUE and check afterward with VAR. Everybody saw the replay, Kane was onside. Bayern were through on goal and the referee killed the attack because he guessed. Guessed! At this level! You cannot do that in a Champions League semifinal unless you are terrified of one team progressing.
And then Nuno Mendes. Already on a yellow card, clearly handles the ball to stop Bayern’s attack. By the laws of the game, stopping a promising attack with deliberate handball is a yellow card offense. So where is the second yellow? Where? Instead Bayern somehow concede a free-kick? Football fans are not blind. If that’s Bayern doing it against PSG, the red card comes out in two seconds.
Now let’s talk about João Neves’ handball in the box. This is where the corruption screams at you. The ball hits the arm inside the penalty area after the clearance situation and suddenly VAR disappears. No review, no consistency, nothing.
And then Luis Díaz gets booked for protesting after obvious contact that gets ignored. Imagine the arrogance. Players are getting punished for asking referees to do their jobs correctly. Instead of reviewing the challenge, they silence the complaint with a yellow card. That’s modern football now, don’t question the officials, even when they are deciding the tie.
Bayern didn’t lose this tie on football alone. They lost it to cowardly officiating, selective VAR intervention, and political favoritism. Europe should be furious because today it’s Bayern, tomorrow it’s another club outside the protected circle. The Champions League is supposed to be about merit, not about who has the strongest connections behind closed doors.”
In Koduvally, Kerala (90%+ Muslim), a small BJP march with tricolour flags gets shouted down & chased away by IUML-Congress mob.Demography is destiny.
Same India, different rules based on numbers.
Not the night we believed in yesterday. These games come down to moments and unfortunately over the two legs we didn’t take enough of ours. Proud to be part of this team and club, the disappointment will be with us for a while but we have to stay focused on finishing the season strong with a final still to play. Thanks for the support as always and can’t wait to see the fans in Berlin!
The toxic Mumbai management and Hardik Pandya have completely broken my GOAT from inside It’s so painful to watch him like this. 💔
He is Surely missing his captain Rohit !!
An entire generation of men was repeatedly told "gender is a social construct" only for them to have the rug pulled out from under them because of their gender which the law has evidently decided is very much not a social construct.
And then you ask what's radicalizing them.
There is no such thing as Islamophobia @sardesairajdeep.
A phobia is an irrational fear. It is NOT irrational to fear Islam, an ideology that explicitly calls for the killing of all non-Muslims. How can you sit back and watch the Islamic massacre and raping of Hindus and defend the Pakistani invaders in your country who wish to make India a Muslim country?
Don’t you have any sense of national pride and a desire to preserve your country as majority Hindu?
You do not have a strong survival instinct.
🚨 WOW! Charlie Kirk NAILED IT when this woman tried defending Islam. We miss him.
WOMAN: I'm worried about Islamophobia!
KIRK: Are you Muslim?
WOMAN: Yes.
KIRK: What is the best model for a Muslim country? Do you enjoy not having to cover yourself in public?
WOMAN: Yeah, I guess.
KIRK: So you don't like Islam very much, then? Because majority of Islamic countries would require you to have full garb in public.
WOMAN: That's not fair to say that.
KIRK: You literally could not dress like this in the streets of Riyadh, as a woman. This is way too provocative, way too much skin. You, as a woman, you don't have freedom of speech, you can't run for public office, you can't own property.
"Islam is against Western values, it's incompatible with Western values, and we in the West actually think you should have the rights that you have right now, to speak, and to be able to show, you know, the skin you show here, and, you know, be able to have a happy life!"
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Hindus go to Ajmer Sharif, no Temple Pujari objects to it. Muslim lady visited Mahakal and Clerics are issuing Fatwa. Guess who is intolerant as per our liberals 🤡🤡🤡
The top Religions in America and the number of terrorist attacks and plots foiled in the last 50 years:
1. Christianity (~63%): 0
2. Unaffiliated (~29%): 0
3. Judaism (~2%): 0
4. Hinduism (~1%): 0
5. Buddhism (~1%): 0
6. Islam (~1%): 140
Not compatible.