In 2023, Indonesia were stripped of the under-20 World Cup for refusing to allow the Israeli team entry.
Fifa's justification then was the vague "due to the current circumstances".
Quite a contrast to the hardline "FIFA is not involved in host immigration processes" now.
A six-minute VAR delay with 25 replays to decide which of the multiple set-piece wrestling manoeuvres was clearly and obviously worthy of punishment. A fittingly decisive moment for the 2025-26 Premier League season.
Unai Emery is probably going to win the Europa League with Sevilla, Villarreal and Aston Villa.
That’s like some kind of Football Manager save goal to succeed with all the teams with “Villa” in.
6 - Liverpool have now scored six 90th-minute winners against Everton in the Premier League - the most one side has against a single opponent in the competition's history. Bragging.
1 - Since 2017-18, Mohamed Salah ranks 1st in the Premier League for:
Goals (189)
Assists (92)
Open Play Chances Created (534)
Shots (1,104)
Shots on Target (480)
Touches in the Opposition Box (2,717)
Relentless.
281 - Mohamed Salah has 189 goals and 92 assists in 310 Premier League appearances for Liverpool, the most goals and assists combined any player has for a single club in Premier League history. King.
Can't celebrate goals because they'll find a way to rule them out. Can't celebrate tournament wins because they might be overturned months later. Can't believe things play out fairly because of financial cheating.
Litigation rules. The actual football is now largely irrelevant.
Activists at the Louvre hung a framed Reuters photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor slumped in the back of a car leaving a police station on the day of his arrest
Infantino, president of FIFA and member of the IOC (International Olympic Committee).
The same IOC that requires athletes to refrain from political expressions during competitions and that disqualified Ukrainian athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych for commemorating his fallen teammates
FIFA president Gianni Infantino in 2022: "Please do not allow football to be dragged into every ideological or political battle that exists."
Infantino in 2026, at the inaugural Board of Peace meeting hosted by US President Donald Trump.