To be clear: Whether it is or isn’t a red to Balogun is now irrelevant. Government interference is a violation of FIFA Article 2 & 15, and the punishment is disqualification and suspension. Nepal was suspended.
This is an admission of the violation.
Just to be clear, then. FIFA:
1) can't possibly intervene when Iran are forced to move, a referee is denied a visa, or fans are barred from the USA
2) can absolutely intervene when a decision goes against the USA that Donald Trump doesn't like
Smashing. All know where we stand
First Cristiano Ronaldo, now Folarin Balogun. But when a Somali referee can't get in the country it's "unfortunate" but we should "chill and relax". No qualms with the Iranian team being ferried across the border as soon as possible.
Brazen and shameful
Possible corruption and cheating aside, hilarious that the Trump administration were allegedly pushing hard to reinstate a player who is a literal birthright citizen. His pregnant mother gave birth to him on a visit because the airline wouldn’t let her board her return flight.
DZAYUM.
Look. At. This. Crowd.
It’s been exactly 16 hours since people are coming in and out the Mosala (prayer hall) in Tehran.
And it’s been the most crowded it has ever been right now.
All to bid farewell to our martyred leader, in the biggest funeral ceremony in modern history.
Karoline Leavitt went to an expensive private high school, then worked in the White House immediately out of college, then married a billionaire her daddy's age. What kind of spoon is that?
Elon took $38 billion from US taxpayers to make a bunch of rockets explode while he illegally cut pediatric cancer research, meals on wheels and USAID. He’s the ultimate fraud and parasite.