This is the kind of thing that was said about the Jews in the 1930s.
It is not hyperbolic to say that degrading an entire culture leads us to a very dark place. Reform are playing with fire right now trying to stop themselves being outflanked by the extremists of Restore.
🇮🇷 Los jugadores de Irán aterrizaron hoy en México con una insignia en su traje con el número 168, en recuerdo de las víctimas de la escuela de Minab, bombardeada por Estados Unidos el pasado 28 de febrero.
Lewis Hamilton says there should be a limit to how much wealth one person can have
"One of the things that I struggle with every day is that there is such a disparity between the wealthy and the poor”
"When you drive around LA there's still so many people living on the streets. You shouldn't be able to have billions"
"I think there should be a limit to how much you can have because there's enough to go around for everyone”
The United States has denied a visa for Iran's national team manager Mehdi Mohammadnabi.
He will be barred entering the U.S. for their the Fifa #WorldCup 2026 matches.
He & others also denied visas will travel to the team camp in Mexico whilst efforts to obtain visas continue.
I’m glad that FIFA decided to reverse this policy and allow water bottles to be brought into World Cup games.
No one should have to fear being priced out of being hydrated, especially fans who are often waiting for hours before a game in extreme heat.
He's another amoral machine politician
An empty suit
Labour has nothing else to offer
It is set up to absorb and neutralise the left and—by doing so—make sure nothing fundamental ever changes in Britain
Félicitations à la FIFA pour avoir attribué la Coupe du Monde à un pays capable de retenir pendant 7 heures un joueur qui n’a jamais fait parler de lui autrement que par ses performances sur le terrain.
Quand le meilleur buteur de l’Irak, qualifié pour le plus grand événement sportif de la planète, peut être traité comme un suspect à son arrivée, difficile de ne pas s’interroger sur l’accueil qui sera réservé à certaines sélections (Iran) et à leurs supporters.
Pendant des années, chaque aspect de l’organisation au Qatar a été scruté, commenté et critiqué. J’espère que les États-Unis feront l’objet du même niveau d’exigence et de la même couverture médiatique.
Bravo, Monsieur Infantino.
Bayern Munich, through head of sport Max Eberl and head coach Vincent Kompany, did indeed establish contact with Rio Ngumoha and his representatives in recent weeks in an attempt to position Bayern Munich as a potential destination for one of English football’s most highly regarded young talents, with those approaches arriving during a period in which the player was frustrated by his limited opportunities under former Liverpool head coach Arne Slot and uncertain whether his pathway to first-team football would immediately accelerate, leading Bayern to receive indications that he could hypothetically be open to a short-term alternative pathway in order to accelerate his development and accumulate valuable senior minutes at a smaller club and in a less demanding league, before eventually returning to Liverpool, the iconic and most decorated institution in English football on Merseyside that he has always regarded as his dream club, as a more complete, experienced and established player.
However, as discussions intensified, Bayern’s representatives made their financial position clear by indicating a valuation in the region of £35 million (€40 million), a figure viewed as so far removed from Liverpool’s internal assessment that serious negotiations never truly materialised, with Liverpool having absolutely no intention of entertaining the sale of one of their most prized academy talents, while those involved increasingly recognised the vast gulf between Bayern’s proposal and Liverpool’s expectations, further reinforced by Ngumoha’s insistence that any hypothetical departure would require mechanisms facilitating a future return to Anfield following his development elsewhere, meaning no personal agreement was ever reached between Bayern Munich and the player as several fundamental conditions surrounding any potential move never aligned, ultimately underlining where his heart remained throughout the process and where he continues to envision his long-term future.
The entire situation furthermore shifted dramatically the moment Arne Slot departed and Andoni Iraola arrived at Liverpool, effectively removing the very foundations upon which Bayern’s hopes had been built as Ngumoha’s outlook changed almost immediately, with the player now believing he has a genuine opportunity to establish himself under the new manager and determined to fight for his place rather than abandon his ambitions at the club he considers his footballing home, leaving Bayern increasingly aware that their chances had diminished significantly and that important discussions between the player and his new head coach would soon take place, a development which in turn ensured that discussions never advanced towards any form of personal agreement, as the player’s focus became centred almost exclusively on earning his opportunity at Liverpool rather than pursuing a move elsewhere.
For Bayern Munich, the outcome of the situation serves as yet another reminder of where the club increasingly finds itself within football’s modern hierarchy, because while Liverpool, Real Madrid, Barcelona and the financial superpowers of the Premier League continue to compete for the sport’s most coveted talents, Bayern are finding themselves pushed further down the food chain and increasingly forced to operate in markets where competition is less fierce and rejection less likely, and with industry figures viewing as unrealistic any scenario involving Liverpool actively pushing Ngumoha out after the arrivals of targets such as Yan Diomande or Bradley Barcola, another target appears destined to join Bayern’s ever-growing collection of missed opportunities, a collection now so extensive that if one were to stack all the rejection letters accumulated over recent transfer windows they would likely form a wall high enough to block out the sun over Munich and cast a permanent shadow across Säbener Straße.
Robbie Keane accepted a job at a club in a country committing genocide, and is now trying to justify it because his mate had a mortgage to pay.
And Rio Ferdinand is giving him the platform to do it. Some people are just heartless.
Andy Burnham says he "can't judge" if the Israeli military's crimes in Gaza are a genocide.
The experts already have.
A UN commission, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and leading rights orgs all agree: it's genocide.
Andy, why won't you call it what it is?
11 days before Iran’s World Cup opener:
• No visas yet approved for players or staff
• Forced to move their camp from USA to Mexico
• A friendly cancelled due to the relocation
This is how the world’s 21st-ranked team is being treated before football’s biggest tournament.