Nkem

[Nkem @nkemodiaka]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Tony D @tonydpoison]

That scroll to find your year of birth is becoming increasingly offensive smh

[Nkem @nkemodiaka]

😂😂😂
Football influencer 😂😂

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

This is shameful. This is a penalty

[Nkem @nkemodiaka]

The first step is to destroy cramming formulas. It literally makes no sense.

[Series ‘Baj @Engr_Series]

Yeah, there’s a difference. The Nigerian education system largely tests your memory, while the UK system is more about testing your reasoning & critical thinking. That’s why so many times you can ace the paper & forget half the answers within 24 hours. La cram, la pour.

[Nkem @nkemodiaka]

😂😂😂😂

[. @dembelismo99_]

Esto habría sido hoy pero, por 6º mundial consecutivo, Cristiano se cagó

[Nkem @nkemodiaka]

Two of the most intelligent 9s of all time. 🫡🫡🫡

[Luis Suárez @LuisSuarez9]

Con un gran 9! 😉 Un placer conocerte @HKane 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼

[Nkem @nkemodiaka]

Learn the rules now...haba

[Mark Goldbridge @markgoldbridge]

How is that not a handball penalty for Belgium!!!

[Nkem @nkemodiaka]

Wow.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨⚠️ EXCL: Éderson to Manchester United, deal OFF and considered as collapsed as Man Utd informed Atalanta.

Atalanta believe Éderson is 100% fit and will welcome the midfielder back as part of their squad, as Man United changed their plans.

Éderson won’t join #MUFC.

[Nkem @nkemodiaka]

❤️❤️❤️

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

أنا عارف إنكم لسه زعلانين، بس وعد مني إني هعمل كل اللي في قدرتي عشان أضمن إن دي تكون بداية جديدة للكورة المصرية على الساحة الدولية. التأهل لكأس العالم مش هيكون كفاية، والمشاركة كمان مش كفاية. الفريق ده يستاهل ثقتكم

[Ade Oladipo @ade_oladipo1]

“It was a privilege to be in a stadium to watch Messi do that!” 🤩

🗣️ “He got on the ball and did some mystifying things, got an assist, got a goal… We are talking about the greatest player of all time still doing GOAT things.”

Lionel Messi is making this World Cup all about him 🐐

[The most honest Cristiano Ronaldo fan @herptitude]

World Cup Final 2022:

Argentina go 2–0 up — “Riggeddddddd!” 🤡

Full-time: 2–2 — “Best World Cup final ever!” 😭🔥

France get two penalties — “Both deserved.” ✅

Argentina get one penalty — “Rigged!” 😂

Extra time ends 3–3 — “Mbappé is unreal. Greatest final ever!”

Argentina win the shootout — “Still rigged.” 🤦🏽‍♂️

So let me get this straight…

The match goes through regular time, extra time, and a penalty shootout, with France getting more penalties than Argentina, yet somehow it’s still “rigged”?

If Argentina had lost that shootout, nobody would’ve spent years crying about “rigging.” Funny how that works.

I actually need a proper explanation on how to be a Ronaldo fan because I can’t be living in delusions because I love Ronaldo

[Nkem @nkemodiaka]

😂😂😂😂
Honestly, being the best at your sport does not mean you understand other sports, because what’s this?

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

I just submitted an op-ed on this to Washington Post, discussing how technology cannot substitute human accountability. We must have transparency, or all the new rules and reviews create more opportunities for interference. With all due respect to one of the best referees in history I have to confront this assessment. It was technically BEFORE the goal in absolute time but not IMMEDIATELY before. It's quite a stretch of the normal logic to directly connect an accident near the goal area of one team to the action on the opposite side of the field. And since there was no arbiter's whistle to stop the game (wrong decision, agreed!), this violation cannot justify the decision to disallow the goal. And regarding the second incident in question, you are again correct stating that there was no violation of the rules against Salah, but this conclusion is reached after careful examination of the video footage from various angles. The referee during the game could not instantly verify it and considering the similarities of these two cases HAD to go to the monitor to confirm the assessment. By not doing so he simply reiterated our understanding that the game is being run by anonymous partisans behind the screens.

[Nkem @nkemodiaka]

Apparently “professionalism” doesn’t exist.

[Pascal @Chiebuniem_]

Let me explain something about bias that many are too far gone to understand (football twitter).

Bias cuts both ways, and ruins the game, although I am finding Football twitter like arguments over truth, but there is something the refereeing world can learn from Audit firms.

In this case, the Portuguese referee might appear too favourable to Argentina, trying to prove he isn’t biased.

Or he could do the opposite: call every 50:50 for Switzerland, whether or not it’s the right call.

If he does, the discourse stops being about whether the call was fair. It becomes: he’s Portuguese, so of course he wanted Argentina to lose.

In any accounting firm worth its mettle, staff above a certain level, and anyone financially dependent on them, can’t own stock in a company the firm has an engagement with.***

In auditing, especially at the Big Four, it isn’t enough for an auditor or tax accountant to actually BE unbiased. You have to LOOK unbiased too. You have to be independent in fact and independent in appearance.

The first is necessary but not sufficient. What the latter means is no outsider should be able to point to a single reason to suspect bias.

It does my head in when educated people (especially people exposed to risk management trainings) wave this off, tell me they’re professionals, as if that takes away their humanity.

Trying to prove you’re not biased is already an indictment of your objectivity.

[Nkem @nkemodiaka]

We are in an era of viral misinformation.
SM is a failed experiment in my view.

[Fola Olatunji-David @folasanwo]

Offline today, I had a convo about why I even bother commenting from my (possibly biased) position on issues here.

And it’s because of posts like this. There are tons of people who are not afraid to turn on their cameras to straight out misinform and pollute the TL with twisted versions of reality.

The coach did that sign in protest, as a desperate attempt to stop the game. Not because any racism had occurred. His bench and players were even pulling him back and trying to get him to stop, but he kept at it and was yelling. The 4th official came over to him and spoke to him, and he still kept doing it. Then the ref walked over and gave him a card and clearly told him that the card was for abusing the rule when there was no racism - and did the same X gesture to him and waved it off (to show that there’s no instance of racism going on) - The videos of this are everywhere. You know what’s not been reported? Any instance of racism. Nothing. Not during the game, not after the game. Nothing.

To the point of the benfica game, the ref did stop the game. It became an issue and was addressed, but that WAS NOT when that X symbol was created. In fact, the ref did that sign on the day of the benfica game to show what was going on. The X sign started in 2024, Benfica game was 2026. These things are easily verifiable.

We’re plagued with people speaking and typing calmly, while saying absolute nonsense but because folks have short attention spans, they run with the agenda.

I read an article this week about why a lot of people who know better don’t speak on social media again, it’s because this. Trolls and people with agendas have crowded the voices that genuinely have objective knowledge backed opinions (yes, still opinions).

There’s no solution in sight, but slowly everyone with sense will leave (or altogether stop engaging) the echo chamber that is social media for folks like these.

And this isn’t just football, it’s life matters in general. It’s TikTok business gurus, it’s trend chasers, it’s shallow influencers contributing on topics they know very little about or read one article without a lived or validated experience of.

It is well.

[WahabStatsHub @WahabStatsHub]

Messi is so great that an entire fanbase has to convince people the World Cup is rigged for him instead of accepting that a 39-year-old has 8 goals in 5 matches. 😭

🇮🇷 Iran's late winner against Egypt ruled out by VAR... but it's rigged for Messi.
🇨🇴 Colombia's stoppage-time winner against Portugal ruled offside... but it's rigged for Messi.
🇬🇭 Ghana denied what looked like a clear penalty against England... but it's rigged for Messi.
🇪🇨 Germany's controversial goal against Ecuador allowed to stand... but it's rigged for Messi.
🇺🇸 Balogun's red-card suspension overturned before the knockout stage... but it's rigged for Messi.
🇭🇷 Croatia's last-minute goal against Portugal ruled out... but it's rigged for Messi.
🇦🇷 Messi is 39 years old and has scored 8 goals in 5 matches... but it's rigged for Messi.

At some point, maybe accept that controversial refereeing decisions happen in football.

[Nkem @nkemodiaka]

Who are these pundits Mehn 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

[CBS Sports Golazo ⚽️ @CBSSportsGolazo]

"There are HUGE inconsistencies in refereeing and how we're using VAR" 📺

@darian_jenks, @ChrisWittyngham and @Bonetti debate the controversies from Argentina v. Egypt 😨

[Nkem @nkemodiaka]

You can see the foul but you don’t want it to be given as a foul.

I’m confused 😂😂😂

[Times Sport @TimesSport]

'We're never supposed to see football in slow motion'

@_TomClarke & @GregorRoberts0n discuss Egypt's 'soul-destroying' defeat to Argentina

🎙️ Listen to The Game podcast: https://t.co/LLZbikJrxe

[Nkem @nkemodiaka]

😂😂😂

[Thando @Ta_Fitty]

Wow FIFA let Enzo have a free header 😭😭😭

[Nkem @nkemodiaka]

You are demanding too much from them.

Still yet to get their comments on Ronaldo’s suspended red card. Crickets so far.

[DaSuKi @chukaobi]

Considering that—

• Bayern were robbed with 2 clear offside goals scored in one match to eliminate them,

• FIFA extended voting period in 2013—the ONLY time they’ve ever done that, and he won the BDO that year despite going trophyless while Ribery won a treble,

• He won the 2014 BDO despite being knocked out of the World Cup in the group stage from a group that had Ghana and USA,

The fact that you still affirm that despite the controversy rounding at least 2 of his BDOs and at least 1 of his UCLs they were still won fair and square, means that you also affirm that all others won theirs fair and square as well.

Agreed?

[Nkem @nkemodiaka]

At least get the player right 😂

[Football Insider @footyinsider247]

⛔️ "Is that what football wants?" - Ex-FIFA referee @HACKETTREF delivers blistering reaction following Egypt disallowed goal controversy vs Argentina.

[Nkem @nkemodiaka]

“Standing on an opponents foot is not a foul” 😂😂😂😂😂

[The New York Times @nytimes]

From @TheAthleticFC: Egypt’s goal against Argentina should never have been ruled out, a former referee writes. "Argentina’s collective failure to defend their goal because they allowed Ziko to run past them is not part of the decision-making process." https://t.co/AlmLb8xqLH