Anyone wants the numbers?
SIX games played, including two that went to extra time yet most of their yellow cards have come in those extra time periods.
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A total of ZERO of their most likely starting eleven players have been booked in the entire World Cup.
VAR widening the definition of “mistaken identity” and making it about “mistaken offence”. The yellow can be overturned, but a new offence of simulation can’t be registered.
That is re-refereeing the game.
We’re not saying this World Cup is rigged for Argentina but they’re clearly being officiated differently. Every little incident involving them gets put under a microscope by the referee and VAR.
Je vous prépare une très grosse enquête sur la mafia du football argentin demain matin 🇦🇷
Probablement l'un des plus gros scandales couverts par la FIFA ces dernières années d'ailleurs
🚨 EXCL: Manchester United reach agreement with Chelsea to sign Andrey Santos. Deal for 22yo #CFC midfielder worth £48m + £2m easily achievable add-ons & 10% sell-on clause. Permission given to undergo #MUFC medical; personal terms in place @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/TY4qfwhHT4
🚨🚨 Egypt’s Ziko: “The referee is unfair, God is sufficient for me and the best disposer of affairs. He's wasting the effort of an entire nation”.
“The cup is being given to Argentina. They win the World Cup”.
It’s all unfolding in front of your eyes, if you can’t see what’s happening, it’s a real shame. Forget the big decisions, the small ones are as disgusting. Can’t deny the fighting spirit but the referee is holding hands alongside you. Fiery game yet one team received zero cards.
⚠️🇲🇽 Javier Hernández on the difference between Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo:
🗣️ “MESSI IS SUPERMAN AND CRISTIANO RONALDO IS BATMAN. Superman was born with powers, Batman wasn't. Batman had to build himself with discipline, courage, and bravery until he became extraordinary.
My mother-in-law asked me: Who's better, Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo? And I replied: ‘What do you admire most?’
Messi is the representation of pure talent. Watching him play feels natural, as if the laws of physics don't apply to him. He makes the impossible look simple. Clubs build systems around him, and that makes sense because he's a talent that never existed in history. Messi represents the dream of being born with an extraordinary gift.
But Cristiano Ronaldo represents another story: the story of the one who built himself, who turned discipline into his greatest talent, who changed countries, leagues, languages, playing systems, and still remained elite. While Messi seems to improvise, Cristiano seems to have trained every move thousands of times. While one conveys calm, the other conveys hunger. While one lets the game come to him, the other goes out to conquer it from the first minute.
And that's why millions of us identify with Cristiano Ronaldo, because many of us weren't born being the best. We had to work twice as hard to achieve our dreams. Cristiano Ronaldo represents the one who swims against the current, the one who receives criticism, the one whose achievements are normalized and minimized, and yet keeps going.
And I think that's the real discussion: not who's better, but which story inspires you more. Both are admirable, and both inspire a lot: the one who was born with a gift or the one who proved that with discipline you can change your destiny.
Because in the end, we admire Messi for what he is, a being from another planet, but many admire Cristiano Ronaldo because he's a monster of willpower that forces us to look in the mirror and feel capable of breaking through.”
LEWIS HAMILTON WINSSSSSS THE SPANISH GRAND PRIX!!! 😭😭😭
HIS FIRST WIN IN THE FAMOUS RED CAR! 106 WINS FOR LEWIS! 249 WINS FOR FERRARI!
AFTER 686 DAYS, LEWIS IS BACK! FERRARI IS BACK! ❤️🐎🐐
Playing like the most experienced CM on the pitch. Adjusts his hips so well on/off the ball, saw one deep run he made down the right off the ball too - he can SHIFT, such a good build to work with, good work in tight spaces, loose / second ball winner, obvious 80m+ midfielder.
Since FIFA said they'd be in touch about making this official, I just gotta say that I really couldn't think of anyone better to represent the World Cup than the guy who's spent the last three years promoting and learning the world's cultures and breaking stereotypes around them
The craziest thing about World Cup month is realizing where you were in life during the last one. Shit I still remember watching my first World Cup game ever. A 4-year gap means your job, your relationship status, your friends, and your entire life situation are completely different, but you're sitting watching a random group stage game at 1 AM on a Tuesday. Football is a time capsule.