the whole "rigged for Argentina" online discourse is a great case study on how the general population is frighteningly easy to manipulate with simple propaganda. and how it's especially effective on the less educated, or "casuals"/"larpers"
jude can post for israel
haaland can talk to idf soldiers
mbappe can support rapists
rapist ronaldo can be idolized
people will defend all of that
but the moment messi outperforms them, hes suddenly a zionist and the villain
Funny how Salah hasn't said a single word about the refs, VAR, or FIFA after the match. Just like no Cape Verde player complained after theirs.
Yet the same accounts flooding the timeline with "the World Cup is rigged for Argentina" were completely silent when Modriฤ openly claimed that VAR and the referees were favouring Portugal.
That tells you everything you need to know. This outrage isn't genuine, it's manufactured. Either by people deliberately pushing an agenda, or new "soccer" fans who've jumped on the latest bandwagon.
Gotta give him credit. From day 1 he's been the most unlikeable, arrogant, delusional, egotistical twat on planet Earth and he kept it that way until his very last footballing breath.
Farewell, you piece of shit.
Palestinian goalkeeper Salim Al-Ashqar has been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.
He leaves behind his wife of 5 months who is expecting their first child.