@ACSPARTAN1@GbMoony Jailed for just over the length of a mobile phone contract for what he’s done. Not anywhere near good enough. They need to do more to help the victims and their families. Not good enough.
🚨🗣 Vozinha on Lionel Messi:
"When I am an old man, I will tell my Grandchildren bedtime stories about how their Grandfather played against the greatest player of all time" 🇦🇷🇨🇻
💙Happy 67th Birthday to 'The Conductor', Graham Roberts. He joined #Rangers from Spurs for £450k in 1986, scored 3 goals in 69 games, and won a League Title and League Cup. He ended up being sold for £475k to Chelsea in 1988 after clashing with Manager Graeme Souness.
🚨Zlatan Ibrahimovic on VAR after Croatia’s last-minute equaliser vs Portugal was ruled out:*
This referees are doing everything possible for Ronaldo to win the world cup but they will say Messi is the FIFA boy , This ball was never an Offside because the ball didn't touch the Croatia player , This is pure daylight robbery.
"The referee and VAR have just erased what should have been one of the greatest moments of this World Cup.”
"Let’s be clear: if you’re going to cancel a goal in the 90th minute, the evidence has to be beyond doubt. I’ve watched the incident multiple times, from every angle, and I still don’t see anything conclusive enough to overturn it.”
"If you’re in that VAR room for minutes, pausing, zooming, drawing lines to a shoulder, a boot, a heel… it’s not clear and obvious. And if it’s not clear, the goal must stand. That’s the whole point of VAR.”
"The referee has allowed technology to become the main character. But fans don’t fill stadiums or stay up late to watch a screen. They come for football — for drama, for emotion, for moments you remember forever.”
"Croatia showed real fight. They dug in, they scored late, they thought they’d earned a dramatic equaliser to keep their dream alive. Then one decision ripped it away, and that decision will be argued about for years.”
"This is why confidence in VAR is collapsing. It’s no longer fixing obvious mistakes. It’s hunting millimeters that nobody in the stadium can see with their own eyes. That’s not what football is supposed to be.”
"I feel for those Croatian players more than anything. You celebrate, you believe your World Cup is back on, and then it’s gone in seconds. For me, the referee on the pitch and VAR in the booth both got it wrong.
The only player I truly felt sorry for in today’s Portugal vs. Croatia game was Luka Modrić.
Imagine playing the last World Cup of your career, your team completely outplaying Portugal, creating chance after chance, while you’re still solving difficult situations in midfield at 40 years old.
Then imagine Portugal scoring the winner in the 94th minute, and Croatia scoring twice afterward… only for both goals to be ruled out, including one in the 103rd minute because the ball barely touched a Croatian player’s hair.
The two pictures say it all.
In the first, Modrić looks heartbroken after Portugal scored in the 94th minute. That’s football—it happens.
In the second, after Croatia’s last-second equalizer was ruled out, he was so shocked that he just started laughing like a madman.
Modrić experienced one of the cruelest possible endings to an international career.
The only comfort is that he finished his international journey as the winner of the World Cup Best Player award, a recognition he fully deserved.
Farewell, Luka Modrić. ❤️
I cannot believe we have got to the point where a ball lightly touching the tips of someone’s hair is being measured by a Snickometer in order to disallow a goal.
The ball’s trajectory and spin were not affected at all.
The offside law was created to stop goal-hanging - it was never intended to be an exact science.
It was never created so that one day artificial intelligence could measure toenails offside and use a snicko to check if someone’s touched a ball.
It was created to stop strikers from man-marking goalkeepers all game.
VAR was meant to be reserved for clear and obvious decisions.
We used to understand that football is better and more entertaining when goals are scored.
That meant that for offsides: in case of doubt, the benefit was given to the attacker while in-line was always onside.
Now we’re using 3D generated AI technology to check toes to the millimetre and extreme microphones to measure minuscule decibels with the aim of disallowing goals and ruining football as a spectacle.
Do they ever ask if we want these changes, do they market test any of it?
What an extra time awaited us for the #Portugal v #Croatia game, unfortunately we will never get to see it thanks to the madness that VAR has descended into.
Police officer: “Walk to the fucking car, you dick!”
The professionalism of the British Bobby has fallen through the floor - especially where white people are concerned.
VAR is ripping the soul out of football. Croatia scored an equaliser 13 minutes into injury time against Portugal and then VAR took the goal away and took them out of the World Cup.