Luke Gleaves

[Madrid Sports @MadridSports_]

Los brasileños han podido hacer el mejor resumen posible de la final del Mundial 😭

[Opta Analyst @OptaAnalyst]

Argentina committed 25 fouls against Spain, the most in a World Cup game since ...

Argentina (26) against France in the 2022 World Cup final.

[Peter Dun @pcdv8r]

I'm a huge fan of rules being applied consistently across a tournament.

How is Enzo supposed to know that a tackle like that is going to get a second yellow card when those calls have not been made against Argentina for the whole tournament?

Completely understand his shock.

[Adam Smithy @AdamJSmithy]

Argentina 🇦🇷 this World Cup:

➡️ ONLY team not to have a single VAR intervention against them
➡️ Most - fouls of ANY team
➡️ 0 Red Cards
➡️ Most - Pens awarded
➡️ Most - opponents goals disallowed
➡️ Most - opponents yellow cards
➡️ Least - travel distance

VIVA ESPANA 🇪🇸

[𝐓𝐌 𝐅Ú𝐓𝐁𝐎𝐋 @TMfutbal]

🚨📊 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧: Argentina in the World Cup so far:

• Fouls committed: 88 (most)
• Yellow cards received: 9 (1 every 9.8 fouls)
• Tackles: 141 (most)
• Penalties gifted: 3 (most)
• Opponents booked: 14 (most)
• Red cards received: 0
• Opponents sent off: 1
• Opponents’ goals disallowed: 3 (most)
• Controversial VAR decisions avoided: 10 (most)

Coincidence, or something more? 🤔🇦🇷

[𝐓𝐌 𝐅Ú𝐓𝐁𝐎𝐋 @TMfutbal]

🚨📊 𝗨𝗡𝗕𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗩𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘: Argentina’s World Cup disciplinary record so far:

• Fouls committed: 87 (most)
• Yellow cards received: 6 (least)
• Opponents booked: 14 (most)
• Red cards received: 0
• Opponents sent off: 1
• Opponents’ goals disallowed: 3 (most)
• Controversial VAR incidents avoided: 10 times (most)

Coincidence or something more? 🤔🇦🇷

[Nabaarun Barooah @BarooahNabaarun]

I’ve played MMA for quite a while now. And a back of the head hit (called a rabbit punch) is illegal even in combat sports. Not in football apparently.

[Arturo Villegas @ArturoVill7]

La FIFA prohíbe las manifestaciones políticas por parte de los jugadores, ya sea mediante pulseras, camisetas, mantas o incluso cánticos.

A Rodri y a Morata los suspendieron un partido por cantar “Gibraltar es español” durante la Eurocopa.

Ahora los jugadores de Argentina exhibieron una manta con la leyenda: “Las Malvinas son Argentinas”.

¿Adivinen qué va a pasar?

Absolutamente nada.

[Ramón Cáceres @reymonero]

Cuando Rodri y Morata dijeron “Gibraltar es español” los suspendieron un partido

A Haití le prohibieron jugar con una playera con imágenes de su independencia.

La FIFA prohíbe mezclar política con futbol, aunque no parezca…

Con Argentina se harán de la vista gorda…

[Conor Friedersdorf @conor64]

When I think of "the left" I also think of all the countries where the far left has brought about the economic immiseration of everyone by centrally concentrating power in a way that also makes extreme authoritarian abuses a matter of when, not if.

[Trey @NashvilleTrey]

The rules don’t apply to him. Every other player in the world gets booked for this.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

🇺🇦♠️♥️♣️♦️

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Argentina have an absurdly one-sided VAR record at the World Cup: zero interventions against them and the highest favourable decision rate among the semi-finalists. England have the worst VAR record of the four teams. England will be up against Argentina + VAR in the semi-final.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

This has been a running theme of the Remnant podcast since the first episodes.

[Luke Gleaves @gleaver49]

@ByPatForde @Denver_Marv I mean, FIFA have put in the work to make sure it would happen, so you shouldn't be concerned...

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

The ball hit the FIFA Skycam shortly before England's equalizer vs. Norway.

"We've spoken to Mark Clattenburg, our rules expert, and he said if the ball touches any outside object, then the whistle should go and it should be a dropped-ball." #WorldCup

[𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱 ✯ @UnitedAlex7]

It’s so OBVIOUS.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

It really is amazing: the govt is openly considering using Korean shipyards to build NAVAL DESTROYERS, but it's supposedly a NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT if the Jones Act were reformed so that US companies could buy/use Korean container ships for US-based trade.

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

Hamas - a literal terrorist group - started a war by raping and killing 1,200 people and then lost that bitch.

There are "child" (i.e., under 19, including fighters) casualties on their side largely because the group has a formal strategy of hiding behind non-combatants.

I have NEVER - as a professional academic in ~this field - seen a less sympathetic party to a major conflict.