jessica lees

[Nuel @LfcNuel]

🚨🗣️ José Mourinho on the Repeated Argentina World Cup Controversies

"I look at what happened with the Folarin Balogun red card being magically suspended after politics got involved, and I look at how Egypt was completely robbed in the Round of 16 against them, and I just have to smile. All of this started in the very first week of the tournament when Lionel Messi was allowed to escape a clear red card against Algeria. When you set a precedent that the rules do not apply to certain teams, you lose all control. We are seeing it match after match. It is a recurring script."

"Some people are calling it a scandal, but a scandal is something unexpected. For me? This is just normal now. We witnessed the system protecting them throughout the group stages, we saw it against Cape Verde, and we saw it again when Mohamed Salah was denied a clear penalty while Cristian Romero stayed on the pitch after a horrific tackle. You can put the tournament in America, in Mexico, in Canada, it doesn't matter. The geographic location changes, but the hands pulling the strings stay exactly the same. It is a cinematic production."

"If you are a smaller nation playing in this World Cup, you have to accept that you start the match 1-0 down before a ball is even kicked. Egypt played beautiful football, they went 2-0 up, and they still couldn't win because you cannot defeat a referee who is determined to look the other way. When VAR can rewind the play from five minutes ago just to disallow an Egyptian goal, but refuses to check a blatant foul on Salah in the 93rd minute, the game is dead. The integrity is completely gone."

[jessica lees @jjesslees]

@jesuistouareg And now France v Morocco has a full Argentinian ref group

[ⴰⵀⴰⵣ 🇩🇿 @jesuistouareg]

Argentina literally hasn’t faced a single top 10 team since the cup started, and just barely beat Cape Verde & Egypt with the help of the referees. They can only win when the fixers are working hard to help

[🌋 @hum_dunkin]

I delayed the inevitable with my focus on the underdogs. Revolutions over. Its time to get behind Mbapoleon

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Nobody can explain why Egypt head coach Hossam Hassan was shown a yellow card after making FIFA's official "No to Racism" gesture by crossing his arms in an X shape.

What's the point of having an anti-racism gesture if you're just going to book people for using it?

[loboto-b @piacetri]

TO MY FELLOW AUSTRALIANS:

[Transporter 🇳🇵 @GuyFawk15833163]

Sabe quando minha opinião em relação ao Messi como pessoa mudou?

Quando percebi q ele sabe e ouve os xingamentos racistas da torcida Argentina e nunca, nunca usou a influência dele pra pedir pra parar. Ele é um cara q teria essa moral. O único da Argentina q teria. Nunca o fez.

[Ahmedõv @a5medv]

المقطع الاكثر حذفًا في تويتر من امبارح

المقطع ده الفيفا بتطارده بحقوق النشر من امبارح وكل اللي بينشره بيتقفله حسابه او المقطع ينحذف

ده باختصار ملخص الاخطاء التحكيمية امبارح وملخص المدعرة اللي عملها الحكم القذر ضد مصر

اتفرجوا بعينكم … ظلم بيّن وسرقة

[jessica lees @jjesslees]

@SethCarterrr @piacetri You need to learn about the history and treatment of African teams by FIFA if you want to weigh in on this matter with proper context

[loboto-b @piacetri]

australians cheering for argentina over egypt just cuz they knocked us out of the cup are DUMB bandwagoners who don’t understand how evil argentina is

[Paul Howard @AkaPaulHoward]

This is my favourite insane take of this World Cup so far.

[Enin 👀 @MariamEleenin]

صوره ايقونيه ♥️

[10 @Kylian]

What Egypt should have done today.

[kim jong deux… @fabiodeuxbeer]

Something spiritually sick about Australians who move to the USA instead of Europe

[🦅 @Donfigo_]

That fifa corruption documentary gonna hit like crack when everything’s all set and done

[jordan peterson's favourite postmodern neo-marxist @herzbollah]

The introduction of VAR into soccer tournments is actually a great example of how introducing technologies that are meant to better surveil for the sake of better arbitrating and enforcing the rules end up emboldening and strengthening pre-existing abusers and usurpers of power.

[Goatbappe🪐 @kyksthetic]

Those 78 minutes when Argentina were out of the World Cup…

[Nizar_Gaza_🇵🇸 @nizar_almasre]

They killed him because he had prepared areas that were full of garbage, cleaned them up, and set up a large screen and chairs, making the area suitable so that the people of Gaza could watch the Egypt-Argentina match, to have some joy, to be like the people of the rest of the world. However, the occupation refused this and assassinated him.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

People are upset about the World Cup because instead of bringing the world together it’s another reminder of how unjust the world is.

It’s not a conspiracy. A Somali referee was denied entry to the U.S., that’s a fact. The U.S. tried to swap Iran for Italy, and then mistreated the team, that’s a fact. The U.S. president made a call to reverse a red card for an American player, that’s a fact…

From discrimination and over-priced tickets, to commercial breaks and VAR issues, many people who have watched and enjoyed the World Cup since childhood are more than disappointed. The whole tournament was tainted from the beginning, starting with a fake peace prize to gratify the host country.