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[Marc Cucurella @cucurella3]

Thank you 💙

[JM @jmRMCF]

🚨💣 BREAKING: Enzo Fernández has said YES to Real Madrid

The only problem is Real Madrid hasn’t asked him anything.

[Ian Darke @IanDarke]

Justice done. Spain the only team trying to win that final. Argentina , until very late, were content to niggle and frustrate and play for penalties. Paid the penalty for such a negative approach. Ugly game with disgraceful scenes at the end. Spain worthy champions.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

We are all Spain now 🇪🇸

[Chicago Fire FC @ChicagoFire]

Good morning, Chicago 😎🇵🇱

[Chicago Fire FC @ChicagoFire]

All smiles entering the facility 😄

[Tom Bogert @tombogert]

So, VAR steps in to give Embolo a second yellow because the referee made the wrong decision in the first place to book Paredes? If it was just a foul, not a yellow, it’s not reviewable.

Pure insanity. Game’s gone. Less VAR man. For the love of god

[Tactical Manager @ManagerTactical]

If Argentina 🇦🇷 defeats Switzerland 🇨🇭 today they will become the 1st nation in World Cup history to reach the semifinals without facing a single top 15 ranked opponent.

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

BREAKING: The Egyptian FA have released a statement claiming they "cannot remain silent regarding the referee decisions" following their defeat to Argentina in the World Cup 🚨

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

There is no conclusive proof. But the circumstantial evidence that there is pro-Argentina bias in FIFA affecting the World Cup:

1) In the group stage opener against Algeria, Messi caught Aïssa Mandi with a studs-up challenge on the Achilles and escaped any card. FIFA later admitted the VAR officials got it wrong and sanctioned them.

2) The inconsistency became undeniable when the United States' Folarin Balogun was sent off in the Round of 32 for a near-identical foot-on-ankle challenge on Bosnia's Tarik Muharemović. Pundits directly compared the red card to Messi's uncarded foul on Mandi.

3) In the 2026 Round of 32 against Cape Verde, referee Drew Fischer did not enforce the tournament's new rule requiring an injured player to remain off the pitch after treatment. He waited for Argentina's Nicolás Tagliafico to return before allowing a Cape Verde corner. Several uncalled fouls in that game also went Argentina's way.

4) Today against Egypt, with Egypt leading 1-0, Mostafa Ziko finished off a long breakaway to make it 2-0. VAR sent Letexier to the monitor and the goal was disallowed for a Marwan Attia shirt-pull on Lisandro Martínez that occurred roughly 20 seconds earlier and nearly the full length of the pitch from goal.

5) Neutral officiating experts, not just Egyptian fans, called the decision wrong. Former FIFA referee Mark Clattenburg said he did not believe it was a foul and did not believe VAR should have intervened at all, adding that the call was inconsistent with the physical contact referees had allowed all tournament.

6) The winning sequence produced a second grievance. In the buildup to Enzo Fernández's stoppage-time winner, Egypt appealed for a penalty on a Salah challenge and for an Alexis Mac Allister shirt-pull, and VAR checked neither. Hassan cited the unreviewed Mac Allister pull directly in his post-match remarks.

7) The 2026 grievances land on top of a 2022 record In Qatar, Argentina were awarded five penalties, the most ever by a team in a single World Cup edition, with Messi taking all five. That same tournament, Messi handled the ball against the Netherlands in the quarterfinal and escaped a yellow card.

8) FIFA has appointed an all-Argentine crew, led by Facundo Tello, for Thursday's France–Morocco quarterfinal, the tournament's first all-same-country panel.

9) Comments attributed to Infantino after an Argentina match were widely discussed as suggesting bias toward Argentina before he later clarified them, and a deep Messi run drives far more global viewership and revenue than one without him. This establishes incentive.

FIFA cannot be trusted. Egypt was robbed. Argentina are coasting to another title under FIFA protection.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

Either the rule is mild contact is to be expected and so Egypt’s goal is valid and this is not a penalty OR all contact leads to a foul, in which case this is a penalty and Egypt’s goal was invalid.

The rule can’t be “a foul is whatever fills Gianni Infantino’s pockets more”

[David Ornside @David_Ornside]

🚨🗣 Egypt's Coach Hossam Hassan couldn't control himself after full-time:

"I will say what's on my mind regardless of the consequence, this was clearly a rigged match and the whole world saw it"

"And I want to say one more thing, if they want them [Argentina] to win so bad, why call everyone to come and participate?"

[amadí @amadoit__]

no card?

[WolfRMFC @WolfRMFC]

I haven’t seen rigging like this since the last time Argentina won the world cup.

[Dax McCarty @DaxMcCarty11]

I’m not quite at the level of the “games gone” choir yet, but I’m getting dangerously close. Let’s just scrap refs all together and have a robot overlord call every single thing exactly to the letter of the law. That’s where we are headed.

[🥤 @TheImmortalKop]

That is never a foul in a millions years. Absolutely fucking disgusting, one of the biggest injustices football has ever seen

[Bas @Bas]

FIFA corruption on full display.

[Dale Johnson @DaleJohnsonBBC]

Egypt's disallowed goal was completely against how this tournament has been refereed.

You can't have a light touch where you don't give fouls for minimal contact and then rule out a goal through VAR for a very minimal hold of the shirt.

#ARGEGY