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🚨Ole Gunnar Solskjær on Norway’s disallowed goal against England after Torbjørn Heggem’s finish:
🗣️ “Norway have been cheated. I don’t say that lightly, but I genuinely don’t understand how that goal has been disallowed.
I watched the replay several times, and I don’t see enough contact from Erling Haaland on Anderson to justify cancelling the goal. Football is a physical game. Players are allowed to compete for position. If we’re going to disallow goals for every slight touch, then we’ll be ruling out goals every weekend.
Haaland didn’t push him with excessive force, he didn’t pull him back and he certainly didn’t do enough to make Anderson fall the way he did. For me, Anderson goes down far too easily, and the referee has rewarded it.
The most frustrating part is that Torbjørn Heggem did everything right. He stayed focused, finished the move brilliantly and should be celebrating one of the biggest goals of his career. Instead, the conversation is about a decision that, in my opinion, is simply wrong.
VAR is supposed to correct clear and obvious mistakes, not create controversy where there wasn’t any. I don’t believe this was a clear foul. I believe it was two players competing physically, which is something we’ve seen in football for decades.
These decisions change matches. At 2–1, England are under enormous pressure. Instead, Norway have a perfectly good goal taken away, and that is incredibly difficult to accept. If that’s enough contact to disallow a goal, then football is becoming impossible for centre-forwards. In my opinion, Norway deserved that goal, and they’ve every right to feel extremely disappointed.”
🚨🗣️New: Zlatan Ibrahimovic on England’s equalizer through Bellingham against Norway should not have stood:
“I don’t care if it’s the 1st minute or the 90th minute. The laws are the laws. If the ball hits a camera cable and the trajectory changes, that is outside interference. The referee is supposed to stop play immediately.”
“People keep talking about Bellingham’s finish. Fine. It was a good finish. But the question is: should the attack have even continued? According to the rules, no.”
“Football cannot become a game where we ignore the law because the goal looks spectacular. If Norway scored the same goal against England, there would be outrage everywhere.”
“You cannot tell players to respect the Laws of the Game and then ignore them when it’s convenient. If the ball was affected by the cable, the correct restart is a dropped ball. No attack. No equalizer. No debate.”
Harry Kane confirms he played golf with Donald Trump: "We played about 18 months ago. He invited me to play when I was down in Palm Beach. It was a pretty surreal experience just to meet him and play golf with him"
Bei aller Liebe, aber diese WM ist doch zu Ende. In dem Moment, wo ein Staatschef auf den ausführenden Verband eines Turniers einwirkt, um rote Karten rückgängig zu machen, ist das Spiel doch einfach im Eimer. Trump zerstört alles, was er berührt …
🚨🗣️ José Mourinho on FIFA overturning Folarin Balogun's red card following Donald Trump's intervention:
"Everyone is acting so shocked today. Everyone is crying about politics and Donald Trump making phone calls to Gianni Infantino to change the rules. But why are we surprised? The integrity of this tournament was thrown in the trash in the very first week.
All this started when FIFA let Lionel Messi escape a clear red card for a studs-up challenge. When you decide that the rules do not apply to the poster boy, you open the door for everyone else. If the referee's monitor can be ignored for Argentina's captain to protect the brand, why can't a suspension be ignored for the United States President?
Folarin Balogun gets a red card, Trump makes a call, and suddenly FIFA finds a magic 'Article 27' to let him play against Belgium. It is a circus. We are no longer watching a World Cup, we are watching a political reality show where the rulebook is just a suggestion based on who you are and who is watching."