Neelesh

Like film, sport, geopolitics (in that exact order)

[m 🇦🇷🇪🇸 @MkndFCB]

The entire world came together to hate on a man while his father was fighting for his life. There's a special place in hell for all you and whoever financed that smear campaign.

[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

Lionel Messi is the exact reason you should live solely on your own terms.

The man speaks ill of no one. He disrespects neither teammates nor rivals. He is the best to ever do his craft. Yet he has dedicated haters. If ever a man (let alone a player) should have had no haters, it is Messi. Still, on account of nothing but his matchless success, he commands a horde of them.

Do what thou wilt. People will talk regardless.

A life lived minding what people will say is a wasted life.

[All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 @AlbicelesteTalk]

The hype was all about Yamal, Mbappé, Bellingham, Kane… The Ballon d’Or race. The new stars of football in their prime. Everyone thought this was going to be their World Cup.

Then a 39-year-old guy from Inter Miami showed up and reminded the world that there are levels to this.

That he’s still the absolute best player in the world.

What we witnessed was something truly special.

[All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 @AlbicelesteTalk]

Leo Messi has reached the World Cup final in 3 of the 6 World Cups he has played, and he was the best player in all three tournaments.

Insane.

[Sann @san_x_m]

Everyone remembers the attack on the Mumbai railway station on 26/11, the gunmen walking the platforms, more than fifty people killed. Almost nobody remembers the announcer whose voice sent hundreds of strangers running the other way while the bullets were still flying.

His name is Vishnu Dattaram Zende.

On the night of 26 November 2008, he was on duty in the announcer's cabin at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, a raised glass room looking out over the platforms. It was near the end of his shift when he heard a loud blast and gunfire, and saw people running.

Two terrorists had walked into the busiest station in the country and begun shooting everyone in sight. At that station alone, they would kill more than fifty people.

From his cabin he could see the whole layout, and he understood something fast. Local trains were still pulling in, each one about to pour hundreds of passengers straight onto the platforms where the gunmen were standing.

He had a microphone that reached every platform. He decided to use it, even though it meant staying exactly where he was, in full view, instead of hiding.

He began making announcements, over and over, in Hindi and Marathi, telling people not to come to the main concourse, telling them to leave by the rear exits, warning them away from the guns.

Hundreds of people changed direction because of that voice and walked out of the station instead of into the bullets.

The terrorists worked out where the announcements were coming from. They came and stood almost directly below his cabin. One of them fired up toward him. He kept low, waited, and when he could, went back to the microphone.

He was an ordinary railway announcer on an ordinary shift. He had no weapon and no protection, just a mic and a clear view of what was coming. He stayed at his post and used the one tool he had to push strangers out of the path of the killers.

The men with the rifles are the names everyone remembers from that station. The voice that quietly saved hundreds of the people they came to kill belonged to Vishnu Zende.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you don’t think he’s a woman, you’re transphobic. When he claimed to be a woman, he became a woman. He now belongs in women’s changing rooms, bathrooms, hospital wards, prison cells and rape support centres.

If you try and differentiate between him and a trans woman who looks more convincing as a woman, you are promoting patriarchal beauty norms. If you admit to seeing an aggressive and possibly unbalanced man in this video, you’re saying all trans people are mentally ill predators. If you refuse to let him into female-only spaces, you’re removing his right to exist. If you suggest he could comfortably use male facilities, you secretly want him assaulted. If you refuse to call him ‘she’, you are guilty of unpardonable cruelty. If you’re a woman who wouldn’t want to share a locker room with him, or a man who wouldn’t want your daughter, sister or mother to get undressed in close proximity to him, you belong to the far-right. If you point out that there is no objective difference between his claim to be a woman and that of any other biological male claiming a trans identity, you are too stupid to understand the circular arguments explaining why he’s not really trans whereas other men who say they’re women are really trans.

If you’re righteous, you must argue that this man’s self-declared identity overrides any consideration of the safety and rights of females. To be godly, you must agree he’s as ‘valid’ as every other trans woman, because people are who they say they are. No matter what your eyes, ears and common sense are telling you, if you don’t want to end up on the wrong side of history, you must pretend to believe that this angry, intimidating man is actually a vulnerable, oppressed woman.

[Fin @DiegoRibas97]

There is one player in football history that has started in 3 World Cup Finals. His name is not Pelé, not Maradona, not R9. His name is Lionel Messi.

I put pictures of the XIs he has played with under the tweet. For me easily the most impressive achivement in football history.

[Nile World Champion 🥇🇦🇷🇮🇶 @D10SEdition]

This moment right here is my final.

[🕊️ @MagicalXavi]

Def in my top 5 most celebrated goals

[🧶 @4i70Q4]

Life peaked here 🕊️

[Rafael Hernández @RafaelH117]

Years and years of Ronaldo fans arguing about longevity just for things to end like this. Messi being the oldest standout player in World Cup history and Cristiano scoring two vs Uzbekistan.

[Neelesh @neelu110]

@JosipFCB93 And we still have 2 yrs of ridiculous wages before this ends 😭 the biggest scamster since barto era 🤬

[rosie @therosieum]

people who have never worked in marketing or PR agencies are so triggered by this article

are you guys living under a rock?

we get 10+ offers every week to buy reddit, instagram and tiktok accounts

i currently run tiktok and instagram spending ~10 minutes a day on them with the help of AI

it's insanely easy to pump out huge amounts of clips and shift a narrative

[alexjm 🇺🇸 @alexjmingolla]

This article is spot on, but there’s one other reason why Messi hate has spread like wildfire this World Cup:

~15 years ago with the GOAT debate at its peak, hundreds of millions of young fans worldwide picked CR7 as their idol while he and Messi went band for band.

And the battle was legendary.

But for the past decade, Ronaldo fans have watched their GOAT slowly decline while an aging Messi remained on top of the world, surpassing Ronaldo on individual awards and lifting the game’s most prestigious trophy, which Ronaldo could never get near.

Ronaldo’s millions of supporters now roam social media like a leaderless army who has lost the war.

With the debate on the pitch settled and Ronaldo’s legacy capped, his fans desperately undermine Messi’s achievements in a futile attempt to close the ever-widening gap between stars.

And I don’t blame them.

But that is why, as football fans everywhere enjoy the glittering sunset of Messi’s unparalleled career, millions of Ronaldo diehards are reduced to complaints about referees and TikTok aura edits from 2017, while they watch a little boy from Rosario forever eclipse their childhood hero and take his rightful place as the greatest footballer to ever live.

[Messista @Messistaa10_]

Nunca se olviden, NUNCA.

Cumplió su promesa.

[TK @TeaKupps]

Peep how Messi never took off the silver medal yesterday and even posted on insta with it unlike performative losers who take it off as soon as they get it

[Neelesh @neelu110]

@JosipFCB93 Only partly agree. when you see the last 10 mins and how they're able to find messi, it's just deeply frustrating why they couldn't do it more. Especially the 2nd half

[Neelesh @neelu110]

@TeaKupps Enzo man, you killed a glorious WC campaign 😭💔

[All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 @AlbicelesteTalk]

In the last four World Cup finals, only two runners-up stayed on the pitch until the trophy presentation: Argentina in 2014 and Argentina in 2026.

Not Croatia, Not France. Did anyone say anything during that time? No, because that wouldn't get clicks.

Guess which country is now being criticized and accused of disrespecting the winners simply for going over to acknowledge their own fans? Argentina, of course.

[Varadraj Adya @varadadya]

24 years back.

I scored 62 and my friend scored 48.

I didnt get admission but my Friend who scored 48 got admission into BEST College for Commerce in Mumbai.

Today he is writing on Instagram "Education System" is Unfair.