Thank you for showing us what it means to believe 🩵🇲🇼
The most incredible story in sports and it continues next year at the World Cup. We are beyond proud of you, Temwa & Malawi 🫶
Jason Arday has been found dead.
The obsessive media focus on this one man - as if it was one of the biggest scandals in history - was disproportionate beyond belief.
Push notifications, top headlines, constant investigations.
And now he is dead.
Let me say this very directly.
Football does not belong to investors. It belongs to the people who fill the stands and who stand on the touchline week in, week out, rain or shine.
The World Cup is not a product. It is the greatest competition in world sport, and it was never anyone's to sell. Dress the deal up however you like. Once you have sold a piece of it, you have sold out.
Football belongs to the fans. It always has, and it always will.
0 - Since the introduction of yellow and red cards at the 1970 edition, no player has ever received a red card and gone on to play in his team's next match at the FIFA World Cup.
Unprecedented.
@JohnBennettBBC Under the previous CAF qualifying format there were only five World Cup places. Even if Cape Verde had won their group, they’d still have faced a two-legged playoff against another group winner(potentially Morocco or Senegal) for a place at the World Cup.
The new format helped.