hasso

football fanatic - Jackaroo king

[hasso @jackaroking]

@BarcaTimes Sell him man why is this going on so long ffs

[hasso @jackaroking]

@chiamakaafc Raheem Sterling

[All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 @AlbicelesteTalk]

🚨 Leo Messi has been named the Best Player of the World Cup 2026 by following media outlets:

- The Athletic
- IFFHS
- Sky Sports
- The Guardian
- beIN Sports
- FOX Sports
- ESPN
- Sports Illustrated
- Goal com
- Yahoo Sports
- Bleacher Report
- CBS Sports
- The Daily Star
- Tribuna com

🇪🇸 Rodri has only been named by one outlet which is the official one, FIFA.

[hasso @jackaroking]

@yekaball Cherki

[hasso @jackaroking]

@UTDIMole Raktic, Xavi was subbed in

[m🕷️ @pedrizard]

Apparently making 3 out of 6 World Cup finals and winning 1 of them is more embarrassing than making 0 out of 6 World Cup finals. Strange world we live in

[All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 @AlbicelesteTalk]

In the last four World Cup finals, only two runners-up stayed on the pitch until the trophy presentation: Argentina in 2014 and Argentina in 2026.

Not Croatia, Not France. Did anyone say anything during that time? No, because that wouldn't get clicks.

Guess which country is now being criticized and accused of disrespecting the winners simply for going over to acknowledge their own fans? Argentina, of course.

[J. 🇭🇷 @JosipFCB93]

This whole thing is especially hilarious to me because if the roles were reversed and Cucurella asked the ref to give a red card to Messi after covering his mouth, people would talk about Messi getting away with it and the rules not applying to him.

[All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 @AlbicelesteTalk]

Thank you for everything.

Dropping one of the best World Cup campaigns at the age of 39.

Greatest sportsman of all time.

Greatest player in history of the sport.

[The Beautiful Game 🇨🇦 @BeautifulGameJS]

If they’re English, it’s brawn, physicality & grit.

If it’s anyone else, it’s dirty tricks, against the spirit of the game, & another excuse of why they lost.

Pathetic.

[Rafael Hernández @RafaelH117]

Mbappé and Bellingham with consecutive trophyless seasons, meeting in a match to decide who's a little bit less of a loser. Well deserved.

[Footy Xtra HQ @footyxtraHQ]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Joe Cole: "Messi’s first time playing against England? Well, we’re going to put him to sleep. We’re going to put him to sleep. Yeah, 100%

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Troy Deeney: "I think we’ll BATTER Argentina. We’ll win at least 2–0, comfortably.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 John Terry: “Argentina DOESN'T worry me. I don’t look at Argentina and think they’re better than us. Player for player, we’re BETTER than Argentina."

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ian Wright: "I think we will BEAT Argentina. The way they play and how narrow they are. I think we are going to block them and break them”

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Gary Neville: "With the centre backs they have, I can't see us not scoring at least 2 goals. We're faster, quicker, we've got a BETTER squad."

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

FFS

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

This has been a Tuchel tactical masterclass. Take us home, Thomas! 👊👊👊👊

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Is Messi playing?

[Vusi.Mz🦉 @YouDunnoVusi]

It was at this point Messi realised he had to lock in😭😭😭😭

[Pain.𝕏 @GBarca_]

Community Notes keeps doing our job for us, we don’t even have to argue anymore

[Marvin the Paranoid Android @Boboye_Ak]

Every single Argentinian “referee controversy” is just “why are you following the rules and harshing the vibe?”

[Appie Culé @appiecule]

I’m going to take my time with this one. If you’re busy, bookmark it and come back later.

Do you know the biggest problem with Cristiano Ronaldo? It isn’t that he never won the World Cup. It’s that he spent years telling everyone what separates legends, only to change the standards once he couldn’t reach them himself.

After winning Euro 2016, Ronaldo made it clear that winning a major international trophy was what completed a player’s legacy. At the time, Messi had just lost another international final and was going through the toughest period of his career. Those comments only added to the narrative that Messi could never be the greatest because he hadn’t won with Argentina. For years, that became the standard. Messi was called a bottler, while Ronaldo was praised as the player who had proved himself internationally.

Nobody wanted to hear about context. Nobody cared that Messi had dragged Argentina to a World Cup final in 2014 with a squad many considered weaker than the Portugal teams Ronaldo has had over the last decade. The only thing that mattered was that Ronaldo had won a major trophy with his country, and Messi hadn’t.

Then Messi won the Copa América. Suddenly, the goalposts moved. We were told one Euro was worth more than multiple Copa América titles because South America supposedly wasn’t competitive enough. That became the new excuse.

Then Messi won the World Cup. The excuses changed again. It was “fixed.” It was “scripted.” Then came, “A career can’t be defined by seven games.” Funny how nobody was saying that before the tournament, when many believed it would finally be Ronaldo’s chance to win it.

Now Portugal have been eliminated from the World Cup, and Ronaldo posts about Euro 2016 again. That’s what I find ironic. When international trophies favored Ronaldo, they were the ultimate measure of greatness. When Messi caught up, people started ranking competitions differently. When Messi surpassed him by winning the biggest trophy in football, suddenly the World Cup wasn’t supposed to define a career anymore.

That’s the contradiction.

The difference between Messi and Ronaldo was never just about goals, assists, or trophies. It’s about consistency. Messi never needed to diminish Ronaldo’s achievements to elevate his own, nor did he ask football to change its standards because they no longer favored him. He simply kept playing until he won everything there was to win.

League titles. Champions Leagues. Ballons d’Or. Golden Boots. Copa América. Finalissima. World Cup. Every major trophy that was ever used against him eventually became part of his legacy.

Cristiano Ronaldo will always be one of the greatest footballers to ever play the game. But this is exactly why I believe Messi is the greatest. He didn’t ask football to rewrite the standards.

He met every single one of them.

[Siavoush Fallahi @SiavoushF]

It’s crazy to see all of this anger and all of these conspiracies for what was essentially the correct decisions