🚨🎙️New: Thierry Henry on FIFA’s new mouth-covering rule:
Almirón gets sent off in the Paraguay & Turkey game. Bellingham gets away in yesterday’s game between Ghana and England. Same rule, different treatment:
Let me be clear: I have always believed in the beauty and integrity of this game, but what we are witnessing with this new FIFA rule is deeply troubling. On paper, it aims to curb unsportsmanlike behavior. In reality, it exposes a system rotten to its core — selective enforcement that protects the privileged and punishes the rest.
Jude Bellingham, covers his mouth while confronting a Jordan Ayew, clashes with the bench, and walks away unscathed. Almiron does the exact same thing? Straight red card. Same tournament, same gesture, polar opposite outcomes. This is ‘rules for thee, but not for me’ in its purest form. Star privilege activated, while smaller nations pay the price.
FIFA and IFAB claim they want to protect the game from insults, yet the rule is applied like a precision scalpel against players from Paraguay or Ghana and like a blunt instrument ignored for European stars. Bellingham can tell the Ghana bench to get lost, engage in confrontations, and still receive the Hollywood treatment.
One English player, a white European star is shielded. Paraguayan and African players? They face harsh punishment for the same actions. FIFA no longer hides its bias: European football sits at the top of the pyramid, and everyone else is beneath it. This isn’t equality; it’s systemic double standards that echo far beyond the pitch.
This hypocrisy is why so many have grown disillusioned with modern football. New rules designed to ‘stop insults’ are weaponized only against non-stars. The little guys get crushed under the weight of the system, while the elites operate above it.
Football is passion, emotion, and raw human fire, the intensity of two players facing off, the words exchanged in the heat of battle. FIFA is turning it into a scripted, sanitized spectacle reserved for the chosen few. One rule for Bellingham and his ilk, another for everyone else. Paraguay loses a key player for ‘hiding words,’ while England escapes consequences for open confrontations. Fair play is not just dead under this regime, it has been executed and buried beneath layers of hypocrisy and selective justice.
Even VAR, meant to bring clarity, plays its part in the farce. It goes for coffee when England needs scrutiny — missed penalties, unpunished reds versus Ghana — but becomes hyper-vigilant the moment someone like Almirón steps forward. Smaller nations get the full weight of the book thrown at them, while the big teams receive the benefit of every doubt.
The game we love deserves better. Until FIFA applies its rules with true impartiality — an iron fist for all, not just the powerless — the soul of football will continue to erode. Fans see through the facade. The players from Africa and South America feel the injustice every time they step on the pitch. And no amount of new regulations can mask the truth: in today’s game, some are far more equal than others.”
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The last week of the season beating the Huns 3-1 with Meadas overhead kick
Ihenaccios last minute penalty against Motherwell
And the the last game of the season wining the Title in the last minutes of the game will go down as the best ending to a season ever absolutely joy!
If this is the end of Daizen Maeda then what a ride it’s been. Never seen a player like him, unlikely to ever see one again. Scorer of one of the best goals we’ve ever seen 2 weeks ago and incredible in the run in and one of the main reasons we’ve won the double. Arigato Daizen 🙌🏼🇯🇵🍀
Congratulations to the players, staff and supporters of Celtic Football Club.
A Scottish record 43rd Scottish Football Association Cup.
A Scottish record 122nd major trophy.
King Charles inherited £650m tax free, gets £125m a year tax free from the tax payer and has an estate worth £22bn that’s never taxed.
But he still needed a 45% pay rise.
Like if he needs a pay cut.
RT if you want the Monarchy gone.
#NotmyKing#AbolishTheMonarchy
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I have contacted SNP leader John Swinney and Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth to congratulate them on their enormous mandates.
For the first time ever, there could be three pro-independence First Ministers across these islands.
More and more people are looking towards a future beyond the constraints of the Union.
I look forward to continuing to build the friendship between the people of our nations, and to working closely with both John and Rhun in the time ahead.