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[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: The Royal Belgian Football Association has released a statement in regard to Folarin Balogun being able to play against them.

"The Royal Belgian Football Association (RBFA) is astonished by FIFA's decision to declare suspended United States player Folarin Balogun eligible to play in the USA–Belgium match on Monday, 6 July at 5:00 p.m. (Seattle time)."

"FIFA bases its decision on Article 27 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code. This provision states that the FIFA Disciplinary Committee may decide to suspend the enforcement of a previously imposed disciplinary sanction."

"However, Article 66.4 of the same FIFA Disciplinary Code clearly provides that a red card (sending-off) automatically results in a suspension for the team's next match, as has been the case for all previous red cards issued during this FIFA World Cup."

"Furthermore, and irrespective of the above, the decision is in direct contradiction with the provisions of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Competition Regulations, as set out in Article 10.5:

"If a player or team official is sent off as a result of a direct or indirect red card (second caution), they will automatically be suspended from their team's subsequent match. In addition, further sanctions may be imposed."

"The automatic nature of such a suspension was also explicitly reaffirmed in FIFA World Cup 2026 Circular No. 16, which was distributed to all participating member associations on 12 May 2026."

"The same rule is reiterated at every FIFA World Cup 2026 Match Coordination Meeting prior to each match and is included in all FIFA World Cup 2026 workshop presentations.

"In order to safeguard the legitimate rights of all participating teams and to protect the fundamental principles of fair play in our sport, both at this FIFA World Cup and at future editions of the tournament, the RBFA is investigating all potential options."

[modurham @modurham1]

@elbow112 @PaulPitt1967 RIP.

[modurham @modurham1]

@Jenny_1884 Not totally given up on it but don’t use a lot. Maybe some on my nose. My skin loves the sun, all that vitamin d, I think. I used to get a rash on back of legs in the heat/sun and realised it was the sun tan lotion so don’t use it now.

[modurham @modurham1]

@ALANMYERSMEDIA They do a lot of waffling

[modurham @modurham1]

@prodnose @Holden_fanz @AmandaHolden You wore it better

[Renée Hoenderkamp @DrHoenderkamp]

.@Tobias_Ellwood listened to you say today that people wouldn't mind paying an extra 1p on tax once it was explained that it was for the defence of the country. Well sorry to burst your bubble but in a country with the highest tax rates for decades I will not accept a 0.1p increase until;

* Migrants are stopped
*Houses and allowances and benefits to migrants are scrapped
* Money being spent on things like rainbow flags, pride events, trans ideology teaching etc is scrapped
* net zero is scrapped including the £22bn for carbon captire
* Green levies are removed from my energy bills
* International aid is scrapped

Let me know when all of my wasted money is clawed back and we can talk...

[Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick]

Can anybody from Burnham's press team please explain to us why Quentin Letts was banned from Burnham's speech yesterday? Or are rhey not answering questions either?

[Sarah Vine @WestminsterWAG]

What the hell? @LBofHounslow is this true? And if so why are you doing this? @hammersmithandy can you help?

[modurham @modurham1]

@NormanBrennan Great news. Good luck on your new adventure.

[Latimer Alder @latimeralder]

Climate deaths:

100 years ago there were 2 billion people in the world. 500,000 died each year from climate

That's 1 person in every 4,000/year

Today we have 8 billion. And only 20,000 die

1 in every 400,000/year

==> We are 100 times SAFER than our great grandfolks!

[Lembit Öpik @lembitopik]

BBC just stated the heatwave is “unequivocally because of human induced climate change.” BBC must now provide proof - not consensus, actual
proof - of this ridiculous claim. If they can’t, they’ve broken their impartiality charter again

[modurham @modurham1]

What a stupid word today in wordle. That’s not a word!

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

In 2025, over 2,000 people signed an open letter by Asylum Welcome, calling for unity and compassion towards “asylum seekers.”

LibDem MP Calum Miller was one of them.

Now he opposes plans to house “asylum seekers” in his constituency, Bicester and Woodstock.

Such a Hypocrite.

[modurham @modurham1]

@SartorialThug Oh dear, I’ve said it’s too early for aperitivos.

[modurham @modurham1]

@SandyofSuffolk Definitely. We call it a ‘ buffet’.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Hermer can get stuffed.

I look forward to the full details of the Chagos “deal” being exposed in due course.

[Andrew Man @TegoArcanaDei]

“The single decision Bridget Philipson made that has been most revealing.
“Eton and Star Academies wanted to open a great new free school in Middlesbrough to help more talented young people access the best universities - backed by funding from Eton.”
“When Bridget became Education Secretary she killed the project.”
Prejudice trumped social mobility.

[modurham @modurham1]

@TalkTV @IsabelOakeshott @jkyleofficial If being the word. He won’t.

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

What I hate most about the climate cult is that when there is a cold day or week and skeptics say (often jokingly) that “global warming is a hoax,” alarmists will scold them, saying that “weather isn’t climate; don’t confuse long-term climate with short-term temperature fluctuations.”

But as soon as there is a heatwave or a hot day somewhere, all of a sudden the alarmists yell “See?! This is proof of climate change!! Ban fossil fuels now!”

Weather isn’t climate, except for when it is convenient for their narrative.

I do not have enough words or emotions to express how much I hate these hypocritical pieces of crap.

[Matt Ridley @mattwridley]

"The great thing about Brexit is that it ripped away all the insulation between the dreams of the people and the decision-making of the elites. It dragged law-making back home by the scruff of its neck. It robbed our rulers of a hiding place, of that old snivelling excuse: ‘We have to do this, it’s what the EU wants.’"