Digging daub. Remarkably we’ve found a collapsed 5th/6th century wattle and daub wall at Skipsea. The grooves along it are wattle impressions. An early medieval crafting workshop perhaps. The later Skipsea castle visible in the background. Behold the joy of digging! #Skipsea2024
🚨Thomas Tuchel on England’s World Cup semi-final defeat to Argentina.
🗣️ “I have to say it because everyone watched the same match. The referee and VAR completely lost control of this game. In a World Cup semi-final, mistakes like these are unacceptable. You work four years for moments like this, and then crucial decisions are handled with unbelievable incompetence.”
“The challenge on Anderson? How is that not given? The offside decisions? The fouls ignored? VAR had every angle, every replay, every opportunity to correct obvious errors and they still failed. If technology cannot get the biggest decisions right on the biggest stage, then what exactly is it there for?”
“I don’t want excuses because England also made mistakes, but don’t ask me to stay silent when my players are denied fair decisions. We are told to respect referees, yet who takes responsibility when they get it completely wrong? Nobody. They apologise after the tournament while our dream is already over.”
“This is a World Cup semi-final, not a training match. The standards should be the highest in football, yet tonight they were nowhere near good enough. One bad decision can change history, and England were forced to play against both Argentina and a refereeing performance that simply wasn’t at the required level.”
“Argentina are a fantastic team and they punished our mistakes, but I refuse to pretend the officiating had no impact. It did. The referee and VAR created controversy from the first whistle until the last, and that should embarrass everyone responsible.”
“England leave with heartbreak. Not only because we failed to reach the final, but because every player will always wonder what might have happened if the biggest match of their lives had been officiated properly. That is impossible to accept.”
IT’S NOT AN ANTI-ARGENTINA CAMPAIGN‼️
People are simply asking for a World Cup with no favoritism. A tournament with emotion, fair play, and real football.
Egypt takes the lead? Penalty.
Switzerland equalizes? Red card.
Messi commits similar fouls? No booking.
Simeone commits a foul, gets away with it. Anderson runs into Messi and he’s booked
France, the Netherlands, Croatia… early penalties that completely change the flow of games.
People don’t want special treatment. They just want the same rules applied to everyone.
Ever since Qatar, many fans have felt that Argentina have been playing with a tailwind. This World Cup has done nothing to change that perception.
🚨BREAKING: FIFA President Gianni Infantino will face the FIFA congress at the end of the world cup
He has been summoned into questioning over alleged corruption and favoritism towards Argentina in 2022
“Are you ready for your cinematography lessons?”
Steven Spielberg shuddered.
Quentin Tarantino gulped.
Martin Scorsese quivered.
“Yes House of Commons Camera Operator,” they said in unison.
all the Falklands discourse is crazy when you remember it's basically a British village of 3500 people with 6 pubs/bars between them that all look like this inside
and they listen to the radio at lunchtime to find out what vegetables are back in stock at the shop
In August 2024 Rodri and Álvaro Morata were rightly banned for one match for singing “Gibraltar is Spain”.
Now the Argentine players who celebrated with the “Falklands are Argentine” banner must be barred from the final.