Luke Mayer

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️NEW: Thierry Henry on FIFA’s new mouth-covering red card rule: as Almiron was given a red card for covering his mouth in the game between Paraguay and Turkey:

“I understand why football wants to fight discrimination. Nobody disagrees with that. But when you start handing out straight red cards because a player covered his mouth while speaking, you’ve crossed into dangerous territory.

“This is exactly what I feared football was becoming, a game played by robots, policed by suits who’ve never felt the heat of a tackle or the fire of a 50-50. Miguel Almirón gets sent off for covering his mouth? In a World Cup? FIFA calls it progress. I call it the slow death of the sport we love.

Football was built on emotion, confrontation, mind games, personality. Now we’re acting as if every private word exchanged on a pitch is a matter for a courtroom investigation. The game is starting to feel less like football and more like a surveillance project.

The Miguel Almirón incident is exactly why people are uncomfortable. We don’t even know what was said, yet the punishment arrives before the evidence. Since when did covering your mouth become a crime worthy of expulsion? If that’s the standard, we’re no longer judging actions—we’re judging suspicion.

What worries me most is the precedent. Today it’s covering your mouth. Tomorrow what is it? A sarcastic comment? A heated argument? Football has always been a pressure cooker. If you remove every ounce of fire, don’t be surprised when the sport loses part of its soul.

And let’s be honest, would the legends of previous generations survive in this environment? Maradona, Keane, Pepe, half the icons people celebrate today would spend more time explaining themselves to officials than actually playing. The game that once rewarded personality now seems obsessed with policing it.

The irony is that football claims to want authenticity, yet it keeps creating rules that encourage players to become robots. Fans don’t fall in love with robots. They fall in love with characters, rivalries, passion and drama.

This rule may have been created with good intentions, but good intentions don’t automatically make good rules. Right now, it feels like football is trying to put a lid on a boiling pot instead of understanding why it boils in the first place.”

[Simon @USRedTalk]

@TouchlineX It has to be the dumbest rule ever put into the game. You have no idea what he said and if the other player whines it’s a red card. How does that make any sense?

[george @StokeyyG2]

Me sat on my sofa trying to help Cape Verde defend against Spain

[UFC @ufc]

EVERY ROSE HAS ITS THORN 🇺🇸

@Justin_Gaethje defeats Ilia Topuria by TKO, due to Corner Stoppage, to become the NEW undisputed lightweight champion of the world.

[ #UFCWhiteHouse | B2YB @CryptoCom ]

[Luke Mayer @luke7mayer]

This is Wemby’s 2011, his 7 FMVPs will be here in no time

[Luke Mayer @luke7mayer]

Fouling at the end of a Finals game up 3 should be punishable by execution #UnethicalHoops

[Visi0nary @HaliVisi0n]

@ShamsCharania Adam Silver has ruined the NBA, sources tell ESPN

[Onyx @OnyxOdds]

@ShamsCharania Adam Silver after “fixing” tanking in the NBA

[Spurrier Special @SpurriersBurna]

@BleacherReport Not even this will save the tanking ratings. Maybe focus more on the flopping and horrid officiating.

[BINK🎯 @therealbink1]

@BleacherReport Adam Silver is easily the worst commissioner in all of sports

[Gary Parrish @GaryParrishCBS]

Memphis traded Jaren Jackson Jr. for a package that included a 2027 first-round pick from the Jazz that could theoretically be the No. 1 pick. That was part of the trade. And the NBA just undid it less than four months later. Now it can't even be in the top five.

Ridiculous.

[Luke Mayer @luke7mayer]

THE ARSENAL, IS IT ALWAYS THIS EASY!?! @premierleague 🏆

[Luke Mayer @luke7mayer]

Honorable mentions: YNWA, Cold Palmer… thank you but I’ll be taking my talents elsewhere.

Arsenal, I’m sorry I haven’t been part of the heartbreak over the past 20+ years but I’m thrilled to be part of the joy that’s coming… I’ll be taking my talents to The Gooners #AFC #COYG

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

[Luke Mayer @luke7mayer]

NBA is set for a generational foul baiting conference final round

[Covfefe Anon @CovfefeAnon]

"As the size of your group approaches infinity, the price per person approaches zero" - teaching limits at Buffalo Wild Wings

[Barry @BarryOnHere]

The last time the Spurs made the Conference Finals, they had to face Zaza Pachulia.

Now, they take on Lu Dort.

#WatchOutWemby

[Michael Scotto @MikeAScotto]

Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke has passed away at 29 years old. Clarke was a first-round draft pick in 2019 and was an All-Rookie First Team selection. He averaged 10.2 points and 5.5 rebounds in seven NBA seasons for Memphis. Thoughts and prayers to his loved ones 🙏🏼

[Michael Petroski @MicAPetroski]

@MarchMadnessMBB

[Fluka Magic @FlukaMagic]

Lu Dort the moment he sees Luka resting that hammy on the bench

[Luke Mayer @luke7mayer]

Technically speaking, my Lakers-Hawks preseason Finals prediction is still alive. Let’s have a big 2nd half, @CJMcCollum!