Jeremiah Durotinu

Philosopher, Freelance Researcher, Writer, and Editor.

Òkun boy.

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@hrhAdetumi I wasn't expecting anything to come out from it. No be Infantino

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@GlobalFC5 It was not a red card. It was yellow unfortunately he was on another yellow. Next time he should be careful.

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@Locouev @001silk @Omojuwa K

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@Locouev @001silk @Omojuwa K

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@Locouev @001silk @Omojuwa Na you put the Portugal clothes on me. Truly your Brian must have rotten from lack of usage.

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@Locouev @001silk @Omojuwa So in your own understanding this entire conversation is bailing CR7 ba? Guy sha dey careful cross road ooo, I'm not sure your brain capacity can handle that successfully without external aid.

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Sorry, I came with France to this world cup, it was the only team I know I supported the others I just went to enjoy the match.

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@001silk @Locouev @Omojuwa You're the dingbat, for thinking I'm a fan of any of the two. You guys automatically create a dichotomy in your mind and believe everyone runs with such dichotomy.

[William Silveira ⭐️ @enghumanista]

Caramba, olha o golaço que o Pelé quase fez antes de ter feito aquele gol antológico contra a Suécia. Não é desse mundo.

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@JairoHenriqueD3 Pele is my GOAT.

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@Locouev @Omojuwa That's his own problem.

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@FeryxB @Omojuwa Congratulations to him. Only for him to get to the final and get missing. At a point some of us forgot he was on the pitch.

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@mayor_twitch @Biggnewton Who provoked them?

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@Letter_to_Jack This your comment is a problem, even if person mind no go that direction, na your comment go reconfigure am.

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@lon_wolfman @pcdv8r Well they will be alright.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The Champions Who Forgot to Play Football!

Here is a statistic to frame above your fireplace and show your grandchildren: Argentina’s first shot of any kind in Sunday’s World Cup final arrived in the 115th minute, a record of futility for a World Cup. Spain finished with 20 shots to Argentina’s two, twelve on target to none. Not one. In a final. ESPN called it arguably the worst World Cup final in living memory, and that was the polite version.

NBC Sports put it plainly: Argentina were more concerned with fouling and fighting than playing football, and the way several players behaved was a disgrace that tarnished their legacy.

According to Football365, Scaloni’s men committed more first-half fouls than they completed passes into the attacking third. Their 12.29 fouls per game was, per NBC, far and away the highest of any semifinalist.

The punditry class reached for the thesaurus. “It’s a disgrace,” said Gary Neville on ITV. Alan Shearer told the BBC that Leandro Paredes “threw two or three haymakers into someone’s face” in the post-whistle brawl that earned him a red card after the final had ended. Joe Hart called it “disgusting.” Lee Dixon called it “anti-football.” Wayne Rooney simply shrugged: we’ve seen this from Argentina before.

And where was the captain? Sitting on the turf, weeping, while his teammates disgraced the shirt he made famous. Sorry, but no. A captain’s job in that moment is not to cry. It is to get up, wade into the scrum, grab the idiots by the collar and order them to behave like gentlemen. Messi shook every Spanish hand, as Hart noted, and fair play. But leadership was required, and leadership stayed seated.

Consider the route, too: a group of Algeria, Austria and Jordan, then Cape Verde in the round of 32. All the jeopardy of a heated driveway.

Spain were everything football should be. One goal conceded in eight matches, the fewest ever for a champion. Rodri took the Golden Ball, Ferran Torres the trophy. As Norwegian commentator Trond Johannessen put it: mighty scenes, but the right outcome. The victory bandits were finally caught.

Wherever Argentina play next, anywhere on Earth, they will walk out to a wall of boos. They earned every decibel.

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It's seeing Messi fans crying about Rodri winning the golden ball/best player of the tournament.

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@lon_wolfman @pcdv8r They never know. Because they allowed them with such tackle all through the tournament, they felt it will always be like that.

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@mayor_twitch @Biggnewton That's to show you how bad his performance was, if you didn't know he played 120 mins.