Denise Dawson 💙

Retired Civil Servant. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity” All views are my own.

[Dale Johnson @DaleJohnsonBBC]

Fifa bans England's Jarell Quansah for two games, meaning he misses Norway and a potential semi-final.

Quansah was sent off for serious foul play.

US striker Folarin Balogun, who was sent off for serious foul play, got one game which was suspended for 12 months...

[Matty @CoopzFM]

Massive credit to Blyth Town who may be the first football club in HISTORY to have a deep fat fryer in the men’s toilets. Fantastic facilities. #NonLeague

[Denise Dawson 💙 @nannniedee]

@lewis_goodall Performative nonsense, not to mention a waste of tax payers money!

[Denise Dawson 💙 @nannniedee]

So he’s now impugning the referee?

[Emily Goodin @Emilylgoodin]

My question to POTUS

[Denise Dawson 💙 @nannniedee]

FFS! Staggering

[Ben Jacobs @JacobsBen]

Ted Cruz: “On behalf of all Americans, thank you for getting rid of that ridiculous red card. It was spectacular. There was a reason the FIFA trophy sat here for as long as it did’”

🎥 @atrupar

[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

[Jack Pitt-Brooke @JackPittBrooke]

I had to double check this morning because I thought I had lost it. But Dan Burn did TWO separate headed clearances that crossed the half-way line. Divinging header on 77mins, block on Jimenez overhead kick on 95. You spend your whole life waiting for it to happen once and...

[Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe]

The irony of Trump calling FIFA to overturn
a red card for Balogun because he knows the U.S. can’t win without Balogun, who only qualifies for the U.S. team because of birthright citizenship, which Trump just tried to overturn.

[Daniel Austin @_Dan_Austin]

Just to be clear, then. FIFA:

1) can't possibly intervene when Iran are forced to move, a referee is denied a visa, or fans are barred from the USA

2) can absolutely intervene when a decision goes against the USA that Donald Trump doesn't like

Smashing. All know where we stand

[OptaJohan @OptaJohan]

0 - Since the introduction of yellow and red cards at the 1970 edition, no player has ever received a red card and gone on to play in his team's next match at the FIFA World Cup.

Unprecedented.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Sources: President Trump, commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, and White House task force head Andrew Giuliani put together a team of elite lawyers — from outside the government — to challenge the Flo Balogun red card. Specifically they challenged the use of slow motion instant replay to give the red card, which they argued violated FIFA rules. The president also conveyed to Gianni Infantino, FIFA’s president, that the appeal had been filed and he believed the red card penalty was excessive. FIFA’s independent committee reviewed the decision and agreed the penalty was incorrectly given, rescinding it under their rule 27 authority.

[NUFC360 @NUFC360]

🇨🇮 Bazoumana Toure at St James’ Park.

📽️ @TalkOnTheToonNU | #NUFC

[Denise Dawson 💙 @nannniedee]

@andypcarroll Congratulations, Andy, you’ll never regret it!

[Michael Hincks @MichaelHincks]

Points and net spend the last three years 💰 📈

Aston Villa - 199 / £14m
Newcastle - 175 / £110m
Tottenham - 145 / £528m

But of course, #AVFC and #NUFC fans know their place by now

https://t.co/cRcQcQOXoy

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

The sitting president of the United States had to pay $5 million to a woman he raped and defamed, and not one person in his entire cult of a party is calling for his resignation.

Not one.

[Denise Dawson 💙 @nannniedee]

@JasonFeeney5 Spookily, all since Brexit. Who knew…?

[Denise Dawson 💙 @nannniedee]

@MsiDouglas Others coveting Tonali not a surprise but the optics, and what that says about #NUFC are, I think quite damming. Tonali preferring to leave to join Spurs doesn’t reflect well on NUFC at all. He clearly views them as a better prospect.

[Denise Dawson 💙 @nannniedee]

@CraigHope_DM Why is being at World Cup a problem? Real Madrid have signed Cucurella without a problem.

[Daniel Storey @danielstorey85]

Don't know if this is common knowledge, but the BBC has produced a spoiler-free link to watch World Cup match highlights without knowing the score.

Simply go here:

https://t.co/dg52CjYbN8