🚨 BREAKING: According to the NEW RULES, Kylian Mbappé’s penalty should have been retaken.
The rules changed for this season: if the player’s foot is in the air and within the box it still counts as invading the box. @partidazocope
Adding my support here to GC and the other former international captains. I hope the court ordered medical assessment be allowed to run its course, and that family visits continue. I hope Imran Khan is treated with the dignity anyone deserves
In the Indian military, it does not matter who the services' chiefs are since the operational control is with the Prime Minister.
Take operation Sindoor:
1. The Prime Minister gave the name to the operation.
2. The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) headed by the Prime Minister decided the rules of engagement - to hit only terrorists & their infrastructure inside Pakistan. So, the IAF did not carry the right missiles & took the heavy hit.
3. The CCS decided that ceasefire with Pakistan would be sought within 30 minutes of operations.
4. The outcome of the air war on night May 6/7 was not shared with the people of India.
5. The navy keeps talking about the operations it did not do. Thank GOD for this.
There is so much more that for obvious reasons cannot be publicly shared.
What can, however, be said with certainity is that the need for the services to do their basic job of 'war appreciation' had become meaningless since the Prime Minister formalised counter terror as the key operational role of the services in Oct 2014.
Thus, the services' keep talking about preparing for 2047 (Vikshat Bharat).
And keep struggling to raise theatre commands which India does not need. Far too many things to be done before that.
The next government will need an able Prime Minister & his team to make the Indian military professional & fit to fight the modern war.
And of course, the post of CDS should go!
Everyone who witnessed this knows the truth, Madrid was really behind before they signed José Mourinho. Mourinho won them their first Copa del Rey in 18 years, stopped the endless UCL Round of 16 exits, and rebuilt the mentality of the club from top to bottom.
People focus too much on how it ended and forget what he walked into. Real Madrid were psychologically inferior to Barcelona at that time. Pep’s Barca were dominating Europe and humiliating teams weekly, and Madrid looked lost both tactically and mentally.
Mourinho changed the entire atmosphere. He made Madrid believe they could compete again. The intensity, the siege mentality, the physicality, the obsession with winning every duel that version of Madrid laid the foundation for the monster they later became in Europe.
People forget he reached three straight UCL semi-finals with Madrid after years of underachievement. He brought competitiveness back to El Clásico too. Before Mourinho, Barca were beating Madrid almost effortlessly. After Mourinho, every Clásico became a war.
Even players from that era have admitted how much he changed the culture. The winning mentality that later helped Madrid dominate Europe under Carlo Ancelotti didn’t appear from nowhere. Mourinho helped rebuild the spine of that club.
He may not have won the Champions League there, but he restored fear, standards, and belief at Madrid again.