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[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

Hmmmnn, the things I am hearing about the Argentina v Egypt World Cup game are simply incredible. FIFA never planned to rig it until something incredible happened.

At kickoff, they used the normal World Cup ball. An upset was on the cards. 67th minute, Argentina 0, Egypt 2. Earlier, at 1-0, the Head of FIFA’s Agenda and Marketing Committee, Mr Youare Diputs, had called FIFA President Infantino to say they needed to step in. Infantino told him there was no need, that Messi would rescue the game organically.

Then the game became 2-0, so during the second hydration break, Infantino himself made the call to the Head of the Match Ball Control Centre, Mr Etelpmoc Toidi, to switch to the Magnetic Enhancer Ball (MEB). People don’t know about this ball.

The MEB is the sort of ball that, irrespective of what is being played on the pitch, the FIFA Play Radius Team (PRT) can steer ball movement however they want. Note that they don’t control the players. Only the ball.

In the 79th minute, they made the ball travel from Messi to Romero because they wanted something specific; a Messi assist would help him break the World Cup assist record. Watch Romero’s header again. His head flicked the ball towards the corner flag. The ball went into the net anyway. Watch in slow motion, you will see the ball movement defy physics.

By the 83rd minute, they steered the ball off Messi’s leg and into the net for 2-2. During the celebrations, they removed the MEB because they trusted Argentina to take it from there.

What happened next shocked even FIFA. They had banked on the game going to penalties. But Enzo Fernández, remembering he needed to score to stay in the minds of whoever will rescue him from Chelsea, scored a great goal. I must stress this: that one came off the regular match ball. 3-2. Argentina were home and dry.

So when you hear people say the game was rigged for Messi and Argentina, this is what happened. Someone said, “but it wasn’t rigged when Egypt were 2-0 up.” Well, you know now.

PS: One clarification, specifically for the global avalanche of idiots. I made all of this up, obviously. But if you believed it for even a paragraph, reverse the letters of the officials’ names. That’s you.

[Man of Letters. @Letter_to_Jack]

Messi won the game for Argentina with a masterful performance, yet he is crying at FT. That’s really emotional from the guy who has won it all.

This tells you all about the World Cup. It is the GREATEST SPORTING EVENT IN THE UNIVERSE. NOTHING COMPARES TO IT.

[Alex Goldberg @GoldbergCFC]

IT’S ALWAYS MESSI 🤯

This guy is a fricking alien!

This World Cup, man…

[Eni @EngineerGrinch]

😄

[Morris Monye @Morris_Monye]

See how proud all Messi fans are. He won’t shame his people.

Unlike…

[Morris Monye @Morris_Monye]

Never in doubt.

The Greatest Footballer of All Times.

[🐉 @IamSollo]

Baba was even smiling. Goddamn

[Dr Ola Brown @NaijaFlyingDr]

Long may it continue! It's positive role modelling for young men.

They emulate Kola Karim, Dangote, Tony Elumelu, NOT Hushpuppi or the failed rapper/kickboxxer in Romania accused of trafficking.

['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

If you messaged or rang me here in the last seven weeks but got no reply, I didn’t ignore you. I have been away engaging in the activity that makes me feel the most alive: undercover investigating an impossible story, this time physically draining, mentally tortuous, away from civilisation and without my gadgets.

I will be taking two more months off social media — to consult a physician, get examined by a physiotherapist, possibly speak to a therapist, then get on with writing what is unquestionably my biggest story ever.

See you back online sometime in September.🙏🏾

[‏ً @oluwatxsinn]

“born and bread”

[Eni @EngineerGrinch]

This thing is sweeting me die as they didn’t call up J Pedro

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

I have friends who are older and very fit because of their lifestyle. They don't drink or smoke and exercise daily. They also have the most unfit kids who don't follow their example. This has always worried me as I am raising young children. I have also seen families with hard-working and wealthy parents who raise the laziest and most entitled children.

We always want our children to do better than us, but when and where does this go wrong for most people? I think it comes from the time and attention we personally give our kids and the lapses we allow.

My wife and I are early risers. I have a particular sleep problem I am still trying to solve, but my kids can sleep all day on vacation if you let them. A friend with an older son who had just graduated and was back home, jobless, used to tell me how alarmed he was that the son would go out all night, come back early in the morning, and sleep all day.

I told him then that if he didn't force him to change that habit, he would remain jobless and stay with his parents longer. They eventually forced him to change, and he moved out. He has a job now and struggles a lot. His parents are concerned that he isn't thriving. He is now almost 30, and I think about this all the time. At 25, I was a beast and had started many businesses.

While we want our kids and young adults to experience life on their own terms in a world vastly different from the one we grew up in, we can't help but notice that others whose children were more disciplined are thriving better. One indicator I have seen that correlates with success in younger people is fitness.

A friend’s son started going to the gym regularly, and he even inspired his cousins to do so. I checked on LinkedIn recently, and he is doing exceptionally well as a lawyer and investment banker without any family connections or assistance. His younger cousins, who are looking up to him, are following in his footsteps. I decided to get my kids to spend more time with him.

The role models our children need may be closer to their age than ours. It is why we need to amplify the lifestyles of young, disciplined, and successful people more. Not every person will make it through creative pursuits. I stress this to my kids all the time. There are billions of YouTube channels, but there is only one MrBeast or IShowSpeed.

Social media is highlighting more unrealistic role models than the most useful ones. My daughter is likely one of the most intelligent young children that I know, but because she doesn't want to be seen as a nerd, she is adapting to popular culture to blend in, in a way that scares me. This sometimes affects the way she learns. While I don't want to restrict her now from experiencing the world, I have realized that she needs different role models.

My son’s role models are nerds, and he nerds out in ways that surprise me and it is also worrying. We can be watching a movie, and he goes online to research it and summarise the plot so he can leave to code. He is not experiencing life enough outside the internet.

They will either eventually be ok in a world very different from ours or struggle in a world that becomes worse than ours, without the skills to build personal resilience and strong social skills.

I recently had a personal experience that made me realize I was fortunate to have left home early and to have different role models from my parents. Having a broken home led to different outcomes for my siblings and me, but the fact that I had strong personalities like my mother’s uncle and the uncles I grew up around helped me learn a lot more about life and priorities.

The world is a very complex place, and life is not a bed of roses. While we want the best outcomes for our kids, we have to finally admit that they will learn far more from others than they will ever learn from us. The best thing we can do for them is expose them to the right kind of people early enough, then hope and pray that we didn't misread those people.

[DAMOLA 🏀⚽️ ⚾️🔞 @holardamolar]

Cape Varde Omo Werey, e reach one stage for Extra time, my GOAT leave all those scanning e dey do for attack join defense🙂‍↕️

Koju ma Ribi.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 Leo Messi: “Thanks to this team and these teammates, I can be at another World Cup today and I can keep competing”.

“I know they make an extra effort so that I can keep competing and they do it from the heart because they truly feel it”.

[Mark Essien @markessien]

This is a critical insight. I would NEVER switch our food purchases from our current merchant to some app. There is always one issue or the other. Imagine you need food in the dormitory, and the app refuses to deliver because you have not paid. A vendor will always deliver.

[Mark Amaza @amasonic]

An experience

[tyro @DoubleEph]

Informal unemployment is something like 93% of the working population. So much is just not possible when only a tiny proportion of the populace is formally employed - pensions, mortgages etc. If there’s one thing Nigeria needs less of, it’s informal employment.

But the most telling part of this video is when she says “we have encouraged Nigerians as best as we can”. As I say, things that are career enders elsewhere are just a normal day in Afreekah

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

When you scrap FAAC, you will see the economic power of the North

Then you will realise corn, soybeans and cows are as valuable as oil and gas

The North that should face lithium and silica are chasing “oil-producing” status

The Sarduana built a world-class economy based on groundnuts, tin, and columbite. Today, his legacy holders are chasing NNPC for contracts to import PMS

FAAC is fake life

[Every Movie Plug @everymovieplug]

People who have never watched Game of Thrones will never understand what this scene did to us 8 years ago.

[☕︎︎ @j7zaza]

Football is funny sport. Wdym the one chance we have at seeing Mbappe vs Haaland in the World Cup ends with the entire Norwegian first team being benched for no reason

[𝐚𝐚𝐲ur🍓 @adeay0]

You still don't seem to understand what collective responsibility means. Do you?
Collective responsibility is citizens maintaining an environment that has already been cleaned and properly managed. It means disposing of waste in the appropriate bins, not littering the streets, and not turning drains into dumping sites.

It does not mean asking citizens to come out and clean up years of government failure while still collecting taxes and environmental levies from them.

The government's responsibility is to provide efficient waste collection, maintain drainage systems and keep public spaces clean. The citizens' responsibility is to use those services responsibly.

Calling on citizens to do the job of the government and then branding it as "collective responsibility" is simply shifting responsibility for fvck sake.