MiNT

Liverpool FC, Ohio State Buckeye supporter & some of theBurgh teams. Play Golf and listen to Pearl Jam, Beastie Boys, Janes Addiction, Weezer & Jimmy buffett.

[JustBizarreFooty | B @JBFootyX]

🚨🎙️ Thierry Henry on Portugal vs Croatia:

🗣️ “If you watched that match from start to finish, you saw exactly what was happening. The disallowed goal, the decisions, the way every 50-50 call seemed to go Portugal��s way, it leaves a lot of questions. The VAR and the referee looked unbelievably biased.”

“You cannot convince me that everything we witnessed was normal. It felt like there was a determination to keep Portugal in the competition because they don’t want Cristiano Ronaldo going home. At times, it almost looked as though the tournament had been rigged in Portugal’s favour. Football deserves transparency, not controversy.”

[MiNT @MiNTteefresh]

@JBFootyX Yep. It’s fixed for certain teams. This is where we are now.

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@notlarrysabato You are wrong

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@StanCollymore Same old same old boring England.

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@henrywinter He dived. Looking for it. What a cheating muppet.

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@TMZ Scumbag

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@FabrizioRomano Wait till he plays someone half decent and doesn’t run doesn’t play team ball and see what happens. Disaster coming. All about him. The jagoff

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@MirrorFootball @CrossyDailyStar No. You scored against a Sunday league team.

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@RichEisenShow No team will draft him. Maybe move to Canada to play

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@937theFan Why talk to these circle jerk wankers. Low IQ muppets. Bunch of Jagoffs

[PFT Commenter @PFTCommenter]

Freddys gona end up coaching Michigan basketball

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@Liverpool That seems about right. Definitely King Kenny 1 and Gerrard 2

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@WUTangKids He’s such a wanker. What a muppet.

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@PeteThamel @AdamSchefter Shouldn’t have bet $90k. He knew the rules and this is the price. Time to pay the piper. What a wanker

[Wyndham Clark @Wyndham_Clark]

Can confirm, grape was opened last night 🍇

[Rick Reilly @ReillyRick]

@sam_golf not just rooting against him. actively yelling "you're choking" at him, sometimes BEFORE he swung. it was despicable.

[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.”

[Adi el Grande @icardo8]

🚨🗣️NUEVO: Zlatan Ibrahimović sobre la nueva regla del tarjeta roja por cubrirse la boca de la FIFA: como a Almirón le dieron una tarjeta roja por cubrirse la boca en el partido entre Paraguay y Turquía

“He visto el fútbol en su nivel más alto, el fútbol de verdad. No esta versión diluida que nos están sirviendo ahora. ¿Qué pasó con Almirón? ¿Una tarjeta roja directa por cubrirse la boca? Esto ya no es fútbol. Esto es un circo dirigido por burócratas con traje que nunca han sentido el fuego del campo.”

“¿Cubrirte la boca ahora es tarjeta roja? ¿Qué es esto, Gran Hermano en el campo? La FIFA quiere leer labios, castigar pensamientos antes de que siquiera se conviertan en palabras. Lo próximo será poner bozales a los jugadores como a perros. Los jugadores ni siquiera pueden hablar, ni siquiera respirar pasión sin que algún robot del VAR o árbitro decida que tus emociones son ilegales. Esto es distópico. El fútbol se está muriendo.”

“Esta regla nació porque algunos jugadores lloran cada semana. Un incidente en la Champions League y de repente el mundo entero debe cambiar. Pero da un codazo a un hombre, rómpale la pierna o escúpelo —a veces te dan una amarilla y una palmadita en la espalda. Fútbol de dos niveles. Protege a los protegidos, castiga al resto. He jugado en todas las ligas y lo he visto.”

Sobre la blandura del juego moderno:
“Maradona sería expulsado en el túnel. ¿Roy Keane? Se reiría del árbitro y se iría con una sonrisa mientras las gradas arden. Pepe habría coleccionado cinco rojas antes del medio tiempo. ¿Hoy? Los jugadores se están convirtiendo en actores, no en guerreros. Caen, lloran, se esconden detrás de las reglas. ¿Dónde está la masculinidad? ¿Dónde está el carácter? El fútbol no es ballet. Es guerra. Y lo están convirtiendo en una conversación educada con tarjetas rojas como puntuación.”

“Yo, Zlatan, he marcado goles que hicieron temblar estadios y he dicho cosas que hicieron temblar a los rivales —sin esconderme. Esta generación se está criando blanda. Si no puedes manejar palabras en el campo, ¿cómo manejarás la vida? La FIFA no está protegiendo el fútbol. Lo están enterrando. Y un día, los verdaderos aficionados se levantarán y dirán: basta. Traigan de vuelta el juego.”

[Pat McAfee @PatMcAfeeShow]

COUNTRY ROADS WINNING THE WORLD CUP

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

"Alexi Lalas left us."
Zlatan Ibrahimovic: "America, you're welcome."

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