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
Recently, FIFA suspended Nepal’s football federation over government interference. Several federations have faced sanctions for the same reason.
Now we learn the White House made a direct call to FIFA asking Infantino to review Balogun’s red card.
FIFA insists the decision was handled by an independent disciplinary panel and could not be influenced externally.
But how is a direct call from a government to FIFA over a player’s suspension not, at the very least, political interference?
It's mental seeing the meltdown around this. 400k of party money being misspent on a caravan and they want to string her up like shes hitler. 10 billion in covid contracts goes missing to tories and its tumbleweeds
visits the pope → pope dies
leads Iran negotiations → talks collapse
flies to Hungary to prop up Orbán → Orbán loses in a landslide
Man’s got a streak.
ChatGPT mistakes English for Portuguese, doubles down on its error, then thinks English is Spanish.
We are really seeing now how dumb it's been to pretend that next-token-predictors are actually intelligent.
Cancel that data centre build before a trillion $ is wasted.