Eddy

Democracy everywhere

[Toni Kroos @ToniKroos]

Football won

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Viva España
🇪🇸

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

To be clear, England played defensively/badly after the goal and got punished, but that doesn’t change the fact that another World Cup game, and another set of decisions that helped Argentina.

[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

#England shouldn’t have dropped back after going 1-0 up, but the refereeing of this match was a scandal.

In normal circumstances, #Argentina should have had 2 red cards (1 straight, 2 double-yellow).

Worse still, not one of these fouls triggered VAR intervention. Explain that.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I’m so mad about this and all the other shit Argentina got away with

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

We are all Spain now 🇪🇸

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

Messi? Almost unbeatable.

Messi plus the refs? Completely unbeatable.

#ArgentinaVsSwitzerland #ARGSUI

[Cristiano Ronaldo @Cristiano]

Portugal Sempre

[Ultras Clips @ultras_clips]

Meet Paul Gregory, affectionately known as "Tango," he is a legendary superfan of Sheffield Wednesday and the England national team, famous for travelling to matches shirtless, regardless of the weather.

Besides his passion for football, Paul is campaigning to install life-saving defibrillators in every corner of football stadiums across the UK. The campaign was launched in memory of his later daughter Lauren, who passed away in 2023 👏

[Speed⭐️ @ishowspeedsui]

ronaldo still a goat no matter what 💔🥹
thank you for everything

[Cristiano Junior @Cristianojrpr]

Hoje dói, mas uma derrota nunca vai definir quem tu és. Obrigado por me inspirares todos os dias com a tua força, dedicação e paixão pelo futebol.

Para mim, serás sempre o maior de todos os tempos.

Amo-te. ❤️🇵🇹

[Erling Haaland @Erling]

Well well well 😂

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

The BBC commentators in this Portugal-Croatia game have spent most of the match trashing @Cristiano and saying he should come off. Then he has a brilliant goal narrowly disallowed, and scores a superb penalty. And they’re STILL saying he should do more. Pathetic.

[Eddy @eddy_klibsoc]

@MegynKellyShow @ggreenwald BFF

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Joseph McCarthy quite literally hated America for its freedoms and spent his life policing speech and canceling his enemies.

He then drank himself to death to try to numb the pain of his shame. Of course Matt considers him a hero.

[Kimi Regal @RegalKimi]

After Ronaldo won EURO 2016 while Messi was still without a senior international trophy, a common argument across football media, punditry and mainstream football discourse was that international trophies were not essential to determining individual greatness. Football was said to be a team sport, and a player’s legacy should not be reduced to what he won with his national team.

At the time, Messi had lost four major international finals with Argentina and had even retired from international football after the 2016 Copa América final defeat to Chile.

A few months later, Messi returned. What followed was an unusually busy Copa América schedule. The tournament was played in 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2021, four editions in just six years. Many observers could not help but notice that a player who had repeatedly fallen short was being given more opportunities to win in a short period and rightly so. Eventually, Messi won the 2021 Copa América.

For years, the football world had been told that international trophies were not necessary to be considered the greatest of all time. When Messi lacked an international trophy, the importance of international success was routinely downplayed.

Similarly, when Messi lacked a World Cup, it was not considered essential to being the GOAT. Once he won it in Qatar, however, the World Cup was elevated from being one achievement among many to the achievement that supposedly settled the GOAT debate forever.

To many Ronaldo supporters, this is the clearest example of shifting goalposts in football history. The standards appeared to change at every stage until they aligned perfectly with Messi’s résumé. What was once irrelevant became important. What was important became essential. And once Messi achieved it, the debate was declared over.

In Qatar, Argentina received five penalties during the tournament, a World Cup record for a single team in one edition. Several refereeing decisions involving Argentina remain debated to this day, including Messi’s handball incident against the Netherlands that some believe warranted a second yellow card.

For many critics, these were not isolated incidents but part of a wider pattern they believe has followed Messi throughout his career, where controversial decisions repeatedly seem to fall in his favour. They point to numerous moments over the years where they believe punishments that would have been applied to other players were overlooked when Messi was involved. Some supporters have even argued that similar concerns resurfaced only recently, after another incident in which they believe Messi was fortunate to avoid a red card.

Whether one agrees with that view or not, it has become a significant reason why many Ronaldo supporters remain sceptical of the narrative surrounding Messi’s achievements and the way they are discussed by the football establishment and mainstream media.

For many Ronaldo supporters, the issue has never simply been about preferring one player over another. It is about what they perceive as inconsistent standards. They see achievements weighed differently depending on who accomplished them. They see one player protected from scrutiny while the other is subjected to it at every turn.

That is why many continue to side with Ronaldo. Not because to many he is the greatest to ever kick a ball or he has won every trophy or because he is beyond criticism, but because they believe the standards applied to him have often been harsher than those applied to his greatest rival.

They would rather support a player who loses with his honour intact than celebrate victories they believe are surrounded by unanswered questions.

As José Mourinho once said: “If I have to win in that way, I would be ashamed.”

For them, the issue is not simply who won. It is whether the criteria for greatness remained consistent throughout the debate. In their view, they did not.

[M. Olise @OliseM17]

Ronaldo 🔥🐐

[Rio Ferdinand @rioferdy5]

CRISTIANOOOOO
This is what he Does!!!!
Silencing doubters after the last week, not team player ffs!
Another World Cup, Another Goal 👊🏽⚽️🔥

#FIFAWORLDCUP | #CR7 | #FIFAWORLDCUP2026

[Cristiano Ronaldo @Cristiano]

ESTAMOS AQUI!