Maria 🌊 ⚽⚽⚽🐕🐶🐾

Laddy's Mama. I love my dog 💜
everything Chelsea FC 💙
#firetheucp 🙃
#upthechels

[Maria 🌊 ⚽⚽⚽🐕🐶🐾 @MarOfftherails]

@DoodleNessa Their sense of humor was the best. I'll always remember their dry wit and wisdom ❤️

[Maria 🌊 ⚽⚽⚽🐕🐶🐾 @MarOfftherails]

Spain have to be so careful now. One Spanish eyebrow out of place and Argentina will be given a pen

[Maria 🌊 ⚽⚽⚽🐕🐶🐾 @MarOfftherails]

@DoodleNessa "Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain."
K Gibran

[Maria 🌊 ⚽⚽⚽🐕🐶🐾 @MarOfftherails]

@DoodleNessa I. Have absolutely no words for the depth of your loss and the pain you must be feeling 😭💔

We are weeping with you

[Maria 🌊 ⚽⚽⚽🐕🐶🐾 @MarOfftherails]

@DoodleNessa Sending all the prayers 🙏❤️

[Maria 🌊 ⚽⚽⚽🐕🐶🐾 @MarOfftherails]

@MarlinIsAGoodB1 I'm so sorry Marlin 😢 Woody was lucky to have you as a brother 💔

[Maria 🌊 ⚽⚽⚽🐕🐶🐾 @MarOfftherails]

@MarlinIsAGoodB1 Oh noes sweet Marlin please stay safe indoors ❤️❤️❤️

[Maria 🌊 ⚽⚽⚽🐕🐶🐾 @MarOfftherails]

@fifamedia What are you hiding?

[Maria 🌊 ⚽⚽⚽🐕🐶🐾 @MarOfftherails]

100 percent. The pure heart of the beautiful game is being replaced by var and automation. This is no longer football. It's a video game

[Nico Cantor @Nicocantor1]

I’m not here to discuss whether or not the right call was made. With the tools at the disposal of FIFA referees, they made the correct call.

I’m here to discuss whether or not THIS is upholding the spirit of football.

To the naked eye it’s impossible to tell with absolute certainty whether Matanović (20) touches the ball therefore creating a second action which would deem Pašalić (15) in an offside position. There were countless replays shown and not a single one could determine with unequivocal evidence that Matanović was in contact with the ball.

Then came the “heart beat graph”. The y-axis showing force onto the ball measured by a chip inside the ball. It shows a touch. Where? Hair? Head? Not sure. But if the chip is calibrated correctly, contact exists. As a collective we are forced to blindly trust the technology.

Is this football spirit? Having to agree on something not a single person on Earth could see?

VAR and technology feels like the antithesis to the nature of football. Like a foreign pathogen corrupting the rhythms and flows of a game that is extraordinary.

Football is great because it is imperfect. It pits emotion, determination and skill of 22 players against each other. It forces three referees to make brave judgment calls when margins are razor thin. Of course, human error has produced extreme controversy. Enter VAR.

VAR was introduced to correct the “clear and obvious”. But it has invaded the game and taken control. It’s now rewriting the “microscopic and imperceptible”.

That is not football. Because in the football pre VAR the Croatia goal yesterday would’ve stood. The assistant referee never raised his flag. And we’d be endlessly replaying this goal to search for the Matanović touch we could never truly find.

In our reality, though, Portugal is through. Croatia’s goal was offside.

And in our reality, VAR is holding football hostage. And if we settle for that, the technology will kill football. From experts to former footballers, people that lived and breathed for this sport don’t like it. They see that even with technology, justice fails when VAR was pitched as infallible.

Reform shouldn’t be a thought. It should be a non-negotiable demand from everyone. From former players to current ones. Presidents of federations to managers. As the tide of our world is on the edge of shifting towards a future primarily dictated by artificial intelligence and evolving tech that we might not even comprehend, the time is now.

It’s our only hope.

[Maria 🌊 ⚽⚽⚽🐕🐶🐾 @MarOfftherails]

And now how is that handball not a pen

[Maria 🌊 ⚽⚽⚽🐕🐶🐾 @MarOfftherails]

No way that was a pen

[Maria 🌊 ⚽⚽⚽🐕🐶🐾 @MarOfftherails]

@CFCWasi Love to see it 💙

[Maria 🌊 ⚽⚽⚽🐕🐶🐾 @MarOfftherails]

@DoodleNessa With ❤️

[Maria 🌊 ⚽⚽⚽🐕🐶🐾 @MarOfftherails]

For Nessa, with love
#curlersandpjs #nessa @DoodleNessa

[Maria 🌊 ⚽⚽⚽🐕🐶🐾 @MarOfftherails]

@brfootball Good to see. I will never forget 2010, what he did to Ghana. He's a cheat and doesn't deserve respect

[Maria 🌊 ⚽⚽⚽🐕🐶🐾 @MarOfftherails]

@DoodleNessa You don't need to explain anything. Our hearts are with you.

[Maria 🌊 ⚽⚽⚽🐕🐶🐾 @MarOfftherails]

🙏💔 @DoodleNessa

[Maria 🌊 ⚽⚽⚽🐕🐶🐾 @MarOfftherails]

@TheresaLongo How DARE you? Compassion starts with empathy, and empathy starts with knowing when to shut tf up. This family has shown unimaginable courage in dealing with a heartbreak you clearly can’t comprehend, and you think now is the moment to parade your warped morals? Fuck off

[Maria 🌊 ⚽⚽⚽🐕🐶🐾 @MarOfftherails]

@DoodleNessa Oh my dear frens, I love your adventures and your humor so much. I have no words for the pain you all must be feeling. My heart is with you ❤️🙏 for your courage and love

[Maria 🌊 ⚽⚽⚽🐕🐶🐾 @MarOfftherails]

@CanadianPenny1 You are brave and strong. She will return ❤️