🚨🗣️New: Thierry Henry reacts to the USA vs Paraguay stoppage for TV commercials:
“I’ve spent my entire life in this beautiful game — as a player at the highest level, as a fan, and now as someone who analyses it every week — and what unfolded during that USA versus Paraguay match left me deeply frustrated. The fourth official standing there on the touchline, arm raised high, instructing the referee to hold the restart… not for any injury, not for tactical reasons, and not even primarily for player hydration in that scorching heat. No. It was because the broadcast team hadn’t finished airing all their commercials. That’s not football. That’s a television show pretending to be a World Cup match.
The beautiful game is being strangled by greed. Players are out there in the heat, ready to restart, momentum building like a storm about to break — and we pause everything so the sponsors can cash in. It’s like stopping a symphony mid-crescendo because the advertisers want their jingle heard. Football didn’t conquer the world by turning into American sports with endless timeouts and ad breaks. We had rhythm, flow, emotion that flowed like a river. Now? It’s dammed up for dollars.
This isn’t about hydration or player welfare anymore — it’s a slippery slope where the soul of the game is sold piece by piece. Fans deserve better. Players deserve better. The referee on that pitch looked like a puppet on strings controlled from some broadcast truck. Enough is enough. We need to protect what made this sport the greatest on Earth before it disappears completely.”
The World Cup should be football’s cathedral. Instead, we’re turning it into a shopping mall with a pitch in the middle.
And here’s the question nobody wants to answer: if the fourth official is waiting for commercials, then who is really running the game? FIFA? The referee? Or the broadcasters?
Because the moment football starts asking advertisers for permission before asking the players, you’ve crossed a line.
The World Cup is supposed to be the showcase of football. Not the showcase of who paid the most for airtime.”
Fizeram me a maior maldade da história. Então não é que fui ao café pedir uma torrada, pão de forma com excelente aspecto, e o gajo me corta as fatias em 2 em vez de 3? Retirou-me a possibilidade de comer as fatias do meio…
Open Letter
To the President of the Russian Federation
From the President of Ukraine
When you came to power in Russia more than 26 years ago, many people in Ukraine viewed you positively. That is how it was. But that is now in the past.
Now, the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians view it positively that our long-range drones paid a visit to the opening of your forum in St. Petersburg, covering a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers. As you know very well, that distance is not the limit of our capabilities.
@trainmaniac@PocasPedro Ainda bem que não são vocês os dois os responsáveis pela diplomacia Portuguesa, que nem percebem o problema que os coentros são 🙄
Born on this day, Memphis Minnie (1897 – 1973), was a blues guitarist, vocalist & songwriter whose recording career lasted for over three decades. She recorded around 200 songs. #blueshistory 🎶'Me And My Chauffeur Blues' (1941)
"Não percam tempo com códigos de ética; basta um preceito simples, o 7° mandamento, não roubarás."
Rui Rocha, para Zé Luís Carneiro, AR, 2 de junho de 2026.
Que Rei, mano👑
Nota: e o 10°, já agora, não cobiçarás as coisas alheias.🥸
For the first time ever, a Ukrainian female tennis player has reached the Roland-Garros semi-final. Marta Kostyuk secured the milestone after defeating fellow Ukrainian Elina Svitolina in the tournament's first-ever all-Ukrainian Grand Slam quarter-final.
This match was already a victory for Ukrainian tennis. Marta continues her remarkable run in Paris, while Elina set a Grand Slam record with her sixth Roland-Garros quarter-final appearance.
The achievement comes after another devastating night of Russian attacks on Ukraine. In her post-match interview, Marta dedicated the win to the Ukrainian people and their resilience.
Thank you to both Marta and Elina for representing Ukraine so skilfully – and glory to Ukraine! 💙💛
@trainmaniac Calma, Olivier
as corridas de três semanas são outro animal
o Eulálio é impressionante por ter conseguido aguentar-se e acabar o Giro a ganhar ao Piganzoli e a todos os outros que estavam atrás dele
não digo que o Seixas não venha a ser um enorme ciclista, mas deixa-o pousar
Jimmy Kimmel: We have the right guaranteed by the Constitution to criticize and satirize our leaders. This is a right that I took for granted until last year when the FCC delivered a very unpleasant surprise. But then I watched as millions of people objected because they refuse to allow our freedoms to be bulldozed like the East Wing of the White House. We will not stand by when comedy and journalism are censored and criminalized.