“When VAR can rewind the play from five minutes ago just to disallow an Egyptian goal, but refuses to check a blatant foul on Salah in the 93rd minute, the game is dead.” #FIFA
🚨🗣️ José Mourinho on the Repeated Argentina World Cup Controversies
"I look at what happened with the Folarin Balogun red card being magically suspended after politics got involved, and I look at how Egypt was completely robbed in the Round of 16 against them, and I just have to smile. All of this started in the very first week of the tournament when Lionel Messi was allowed to escape a clear red card against Algeria. When you set a precedent that the rules do not apply to certain teams, you lose all control. We are seeing it match after match. It is a recurring script."
"Some people are calling it a scandal, but a scandal is something unexpected. For me? This is just normal now. We witnessed the system protecting them throughout the group stages, we saw it against Cape Verde, and we saw it again when Mohamed Salah was denied a clear penalty while Cristian Romero stayed on the pitch after a horrific tackle. You can put the tournament in America, in Mexico, in Canada, it doesn't matter. The geographic location changes, but the hands pulling the strings stay exactly the same. It is a cinematic production."
"If you are a smaller nation playing in this World Cup, you have to accept that you start the match 1-0 down before a ball is even kicked. Egypt played beautiful football, they went 2-0 up, and they still couldn't win because you cannot defeat a referee who is determined to look the other way. When VAR can rewind the play from five minutes ago just to disallow an Egyptian goal, but refuses to check a blatant foul on Salah in the 93rd minute, the game is dead. The integrity is completely gone."
Quisieron que fuera reconocido y recordado como el mejor futbolista de todos lo tiempos, pero lograron que el mundo lo repudie y vea en él la corrupción personificada. Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini pasará a la historia como la prueba fehaciente de que la pelota sí se mancha.
For those who don't know what is happening:
The US violated the MoU by opening another shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz from the Omani side
According to the MoU, the shipping lanes in the strait should remain under Iran’s control, which means what America did was a violation of the MoU
Iran then targeted ships that tried to pass through the Omani side
The US responded by attacking Iran and later announced that the MoU and the ceasefire were over
Now Iran is attacking US military bases across the region
One thing to keep in mind is that the Strait of Hormuz is one of Iran’s main strategic leverage points, and Iran says it will not allow the US to take control of it under any circumstances
I posted this a few minutes into the Cape Verde game.
It is not just the Egypt match - it has been obvious every Argentina match.
Rewatch the Cape Verde game with the same scrutiny on the decisions.
🚨 𝗘𝗫𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗩𝗘: The controversy refuses to die.
• Algeria filed a complaint.
• Egypt filed a complaint.
• The European Parliament is demanding an investigation into the FIFA president.
• Garry Kasparov spoke about the scandal.
• José Mourinho spoke about the scandal.
• Jamie Carragher spoke about the scandal.
• Alan Shearer spoke about the scandal.
• Rio Ferdinand spoke about the scandal.
• Roy Keane spoke about the scandal.
Whether people agree or not, the perception that Argentina have been favored is no longer coming from just one fanbase—it's now part of a much wider debate.
Imagine the significance of what Donald Trump said about the Golan!
The President of the United States effectively reaffirmed Israel's occupation and annexation of the Golan Heights while Abu Mohammad al-Julani sat beside him without a single objection, not even a reminder that the Golan is occupied Syrian territory.
Silence at a moment like this is state policy.
When the U.S. president declares the Golan to be Israeli territory and the self-proclaimed "President of Syria" says nothing, the world is bound to interpret that silence as acceptance of the status quo.
They abstained from a vote to save starving Cubans?
Something is fundamentally wrong with @AlboMP and his government.
Australia, how did Labor get to this point?
Ahead of today's game, Egypt coach Hossam Hassan appealed to the world to "let the Palestinian people live." Israel responds by killing the head of public relations for the Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza:
I thought the West were the good guys?! 🤯
My visit to the Karaj B1 bridge, a critical piece of civilian infrastructure destroyed by US airstrikes in the recent illegal aggression against Iran.
The attack massacred eight Iranians and injured 95 others.
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