Kenneth Mayers

🇹🇹 #Mufc

[Kenneth Mayers @kennethchioki]

A Thread of some of my favorite edits

[Kejan Haynes @KejanHaynes]

Meanwhile at T&TEC...

[proxy @proxy63s]

Can we start from the fully overly exposed carbon steering wheel.

[🎁 @Valnoon13]

The linesman in the Manchester Derby watching all this play out after he correctly ruled city's goal out for offside😭

[Bristol City FC @BristolCity]

A quite frankly, ludicrous goal from Dom Ballard. 🤯

[Jihan Roberts @shoesbyFIS]

My bredrin missing PLEASE share

[George Jarjour @GeorgeOnTap]

FIFA reportedly offered every member association up to $40 million to vote yes, and $10 million if they voted no. Today, all 55 European nations chose zero.

This afternoon, on an emergency call, every UEFA member approved a boycott of FIFA competitions, men’s and women’s, until the FIFA Forward Enterprise plan dies.

Now run the numbers on what each side is holding.

FIFA’s position: a $20 billion valuation on the new entity, a $4.2 billion raise this year through J.P. Morgan, Thrive as proposed lead investor, and a September 19 vote it needs 106 of 211 members to win. UEFA and Concacaf, which says it was never even informed of the plan, control 96 votes between them. The math was already tight. It just got worse.

UEFA’s position: the product itself. Europe has produced six of the last eight World Cup winners. Spain just won the 2026 tournament, and three of the four semifinalists were European. A World Cup without Spain, France, England and Germany is not a diminished World Cup. It is a different, much cheaper product, and every investor being asked to value this thing at $20 billion knows it.

And the 2030 World Cup is co-hosted by Spain, Portugal and Morocco. Two of the three host nations just voted to boycott the tournament they are hosting. There is no version of that event that survives its own hosts refusing to show up.

Here is why the threat is credible, and why Infantino knows it. In 2021 he proposed a World Cup every two years. UEFA threatened a boycott. FIFA abandoned the plan. This is the second time in five years Europe has pointed the same weapon at the same man, and the first time, it worked without a shot.

So look at what the $40 million offer actually was. FIFA cannot win this vote on the merits against the confederations that produce the product, so it priced the vote instead, aiming the money at the 150 plus smaller associations for whom $40 million is transformative and a European boycott is someone else’s problem. Infantino called it a democratic consultation process. It is a tender offer with a deadline.

The investor math is the part nobody is saying out loud. The $20 billion valuation assumes the World Cup as it exists, with Europe in it. Anyone wiring money into that raise is now buying a tournament that its champion, its finalists and two of its next hosts have publicly refused to play in. The asset changed materially between Tuesday’s announcement and Thursday’s call.

FIFA spent the week trying to sell the World Cup. UEFA spent one afternoon demonstrating who actually owns it.

[The-Rick 🕸️ || District 2 @dherrick_]

Somebody say they will have to give the Hadeeds Tobago when they done with them😭😭😭😭

[head taybrina⸆⸉🩰 @headtaybrina]

mbappe got into that locker room during halftime and slapped everyone across the face then told them to stop embarrassing him

[Zito @_Zeets]

England deciding to turn up and France just wanting to go home

[Ben aka Drawty @BenDrawty]

Spain Man Utd
vs vs
Argentina Wrexham

[. @tosinmm_]

Man Utd preseason match Saturday

We don’t rest, we keep going

[John Bennett @JohnBennettBBC]

We laughed at the time but what I’d give for a Jordan v Austria to be on my tv right now.

Great days.

[G @Gideoomatic]

France and England really went out like punks lmaooooooo dfkm

[Ace🥤 @speeds_c]

From the moment you decide to bring on 3 defenders instead of subbing on the likes of Saka, Rashford, Kobbie to kill the game off shows me what kind of man you are, straight out of the Amorim serial loser playbook, Tuchel you’re a terrorist

[kyle @knicks_tape99]

Go up 1-0 and let Messi spam crosses lmaooooo

[big-goonks @Stefanaj1234]

Maybe the grandchildren are the friends we made along the way

[「Tony Tzolprano 🏆」 @duanepongo]

If you’re thinking about following football after the World Cup, don’t. Protect your mental health and your weekends.

[Mario Schlosser @mariots]

Now that there are only 6 world cup games left, I feel deep remorse that I skipped Jordan - Algeria at 11pm three weeks ago

[Congolesa Rice @judeinlondon]

3 is bigger than 2. Hope this helps.

[. @tosinmm_]

Only rule change we need in football, bring back golden goal.

Golden goal in the social media era would be hilarious and evil.