Matt Hall

[Matt Hall @MattHall300]

Corrupt to the core #InfantinoOut

[David Ornstein @David_Ornstein]

🚨 FA made strong representation to FIFA that VAR process incorrectly followed on Quansah red card. Cited referee viewing still image 1st when should be realtime replay. Request for mitigation not accepted. Rules state 2-game ban + no appeal @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/RiRpUpIYYr

[Gary Lineker @GaryLineker]

Whatever the result, Farage will always be a dick.

[Real Madrid Fans 🤍 @MadridismoreaI]

VARgentina.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Clarification: Sky News was not at the property at 7.41am. As has already been acknowledged, and as shown in the footage from 10.19am, Sky News was outside a property where Mr Farage was registered to vote at the last election. Sky News did not interact with Mr Farage’s daughter.

On a single occasion, we approached the property without a camera operator, identified ourselves as Sky News, and the adult occupant chose not to engage. We were seeking to contact Mr Farage to ask questions about the gift he accepted from Mr Cottrell. This is a well-established and routine journalistic practice when reporting on matters of legitimate public interest.

The footage clearly demonstrates that Sky News did not “hound” or pursue Mr Farage’s daughter. At no stage did we seek to speak to anyone other than Mr Farage in connection with this story.

[Dale Johnson @DaleJohnsonBBC]

Egypt's disallowed goal was completely against how this tournament has been refereed.

You can't have a light touch where you don't give fouls for minimal contact and then rule out a goal through VAR for a very minimal hold of the shirt.

#ARGEGY

[Melissa Reddy @MelissaReddy_]

An absolute farce. And if you’ve been paying attention, an intervention that would have never come had the goal been scored by Argentina.

[Belgian Red Devils @BelRedDevils]

Overturn this. 🧏‍♂️ #USABEL

[Matt Hall @MattHall300]

What game was he awarded a red card in?

[claybraham lincoln @ClayLaSoul]

Exactly two years ago, UEFA suspended a one-game ban on Jude Bellingham during their literal last tournament. 🤷‍♂️

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

When Sepp Blatter is taking to social media to call out corruption on your watch, it’s probably time to accept that the game’s up.

This is like Fred West critiquing your paving technique.

[Matt Hall @MattHall300]

There are bad takes, there are worse takes and then there is this drivel…

[Geronimo Morgans @GeronimoMorgans]

Mexico were by far the best team on the pitch across both halves. Dominated England in the second half especially after Quansah’s red card. Football is so ruthless and defeats are so hard to swallow but they are going out having made genuine history. Conceded only three goals, suffered only one defeat in the entire tournament and all from a single game, against England. One of the most dominant and cohesive sides in the group stage and Round of 32. Javier Aguirre coached a brilliantly organised, fearless team and deserves every single credit for that. They deserved more but that is football. Props to Mexico for a brilliant game. Props for everything they achieved in this World Cup. Props to every single Mexican player and fan out there. You did yourselves incredibly proud. 🇲🇽

[Rio Ferdinand @rioferdy5]

😂😂😂😂😂

[Yannick Bolasie @YannickBolasie]

All I’ll say is if this was AFCON and they let a man play after he got a red card, the nonsense being said would be crazy

[Matt Hall @MattHall300]

I’ve no idea why this is on my timeline but, this is surely not suggesting that Balogun had a choice about representing England? He’d be absolutely nowhere near an England squad. I would strongly argue he’d be nowhere near starting for Nigeria either with Oshimen around….

[Brittney @Brittbabi]

Balogun is a Nigerian who grew up in London and was born in the United States because some flight attendants decided his mother was too pregnant to fly. He was given the opportunity to represent Nigeria, England, or the United States.

he CHOSE us. and THAT is the most American thing. we’re all immigrants born here, choosing our country with pride every day.

[English Gentleman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇸 @EngGentleman7]

Dear @RonDeSantis,

Mr Governor,

Your sturdy American patriotism is noted and, in its proper place, rather admirable. Yet when the subject turns to history — and the post you answered concerns the venerable age of a British hostelry against the comparative youth of the Republic — precision matters. One does not wish to appear pedantic, but facts will out.

The colonists who took up arms in 1775 did not fight “the English.” They rebelled against the Crown and Parliament of the Kingdom of Great Britain, the state created by the Acts of Union 1707 that joined the kingdoms of England and Scotland under a single sovereign and legislature.

The Declaration of Independence itself addresses grievances against “the present King of Great Britain.” The troops who fired at Lexington and Concord, and later surrendered at Yorktown, marched under the Union Flag and served in His Majesty’s British Army — a force that already included Scottish regiments, Welsh contingents, Irishmen, and hired German auxiliaries. To collapse the whole affair into a quarrel with “the English” is a common but ahistorical shorthand that rather flattens the multinational reality of the British state even then.

As for the familiar assertion that without America the sign above that ancient pub would now read in German, that too invites a moment’s scrutiny.

The Battle of Britain was fought and won by the Royal Air Force in the summer and autumn of 1940, more than a year before the United States entered the war following Pearl Harbor. The Royal Navy kept the sealanes open. While Lend-Lease proved valuable and the later alliance decisive, the claim that America alone preserved British liberty rather overlooks the stand this island nation made when it stood, for a time, very much alone.

One offers these observations in the spirit of transatlantic candour, not contention. Loose history serves neither side well.

Yours in profound contempt for historical imprecision,
A Gentleman from the Old School

#FourthofJuly #America #WWII #Britain #England

[RugbyInsideLine @RugbyInsideLine]

Hey Bill Sweeney,

Time to give Shaun Edwards a call.

Kind regards,

England Rugby fans

[James Ducker @TelegraphDucker]

So there is one rule for Messi and another for everyone else …

Good news for #USMNT is they’re through to the last 16. Bad news is they’ll be without their star striker Folarin Balogun for #Belgium

Similarities to Messi challenge on Algeria’s Mandi in terms of how Balogun’s
studs raked down right achilles of Muharemovic. But his eyes were fixed firmly on ball & that action was the unintended consequence of a collision between two bodies. Red card so harsh. Zero consistency of officiating/VAR application.

No recourse to appeal.

Also, I can’t understand the insistence on slowing down these challenges on review - you end up comparing two different incidents.

⬇️

https://t.co/1xkzFnzOQJ

[Ben Jacobs @JacobsBen]

Two relatively similar incidents...

Flo Balogun: red card.
Lionel Messi: unpunished.

[Pilib De Brún (Phil Brown) @Malachians]

Fair play to Spurs but if Utd did sign those two players, a significant number of your colleagues would be absolutely slaughtering Utd for overpaying and labeling them incompetent

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Kobbie's first #PL goal was one to remember 😮‍💨🤍