An impressive array of Fleet Carriers that our faction have deployed over the last couple of days.
The artists at @EliteDangerous have put in a lot of detail here
#EliteDangerous#RFOV
🚨🗣️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.”
@7pickett75@danjo_elo@JHFootballAgent Where's the integrity gone at Southampton? Blaming the team that were switched on enough to catch you, when you should be asking questions about the kind of people involved in running your club... 🤔
@JustSaints_ Tonda eckert this season:
Lost 2 out of 10 first games
Lost 4-0 to the guy who had promotion gift wrapped to him
Made a mockery of his own club and ruined a young interns career
Lies on TV that he doesn’t cheat
Mauled by the tigers twice in one season
@DelIngram15182 It was your lot who cheated your fans out of a play off final Del, not us. Bit of perspective does wonders, come back to this later and you'll see
@untypicalboro Agreed, 100%, we must keep Helberg and build a team worthy of him, but could that have been done in January? It feels as though we had the chance and passed it up