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[Telegraph Football @TeleFootball]

Claims the World Cup has been “fixed” in favour of Lionel Messi’s Argentina reached fever pitch following their controversial win over Egypt

❌ Messi escapes red card
🟨 Second-fewest bookings
🇦🇷 All-Argentine officials for France game
🎲 Lopsided World Cup draw
🗣️ Infantino: I suffered with Argentina
...and more

Telegraph Sport looks at some of the claims that Argentina’s name is already on the trophy ⤵️
https://t.co/rAt1Bl5UsA

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

Watch Kay Burley's bizarre interjection as a call is made for Epstein's victims to come forward

[sam 🇫🇷🇧🇪 @sambrazy]

Not enough people remember this. Infantino hand selected Inter Miami to participate in the Club World Cup. Not the MLS champions, but Inter Miami.

They’re the only team that didn’t have to qualify

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

“He didn't call in the favour when it came to Omar Artan, the Somali referee; to make sure the Iranians weren't treated like rubbish; for visas; for the Senegalese team who were humiliated outside of their bus.”

Mehreen Khan on why the role of Gianni Infantino and Donald Trump in Folarin Balogun’s suspended ban looks even worse when the rest of the World Cup is considered.

[Max Rushden 💛🖤 @maxrushden]

what a shame for genuine US football fans who saw their side get to this stage on merit, whose team until now had impressed the world, who were pissed at Trump's intervention - and who are so desperate for this sport to grow. They deserved better.

[Rob Dauster @RobDauster]

It’s 100% this. We went from singing Country Roads and Ella Langley at a World Cup that made everyone fall in love with all distinctly American parts of our daily life to reminding everyone why 90% of the global population hates us.

Overturning that red card made a really fun, talented team into The Bad Guys. They went from playing loose and free to timid and overwhelmed. Being the center of an international firestorm caused that.

[Jack D 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @JackDunc1]

THIS is why everyone hates your country.

Everyone else when there's a red card accepts the reality of it and moves on, you guys corrupt the sport and then expect to be congratulated for it.

No wonder you elected trump, nation of narcissists.

[Mohammad Ali Shabani @mashabani]

Team USA could have shown some integrity and sportsmanship by distancing itself from Trump and benching Balogun. It didn't. It went along with Trump's assault on professional football. Team USA got crushed anyway. Good riddance.

[Daniel Storey @danielstorey85]

The USA national team earned friends and new fans in this tournament for their endeavour and achievements.

All that was torched in 48 hours thanks to their President. I hope it was worth it to get pumped by Belgium.

https://t.co/n2BE7wOvpp

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

Americans just don’t seem to get it. It’s really bizarre.

[NFFC_ @psb_nffc]

@aagave @adowniebrazil Imagine being so stupid and confident at the same time. It's remarkable

[Chris @prestonchris86]

Crazy how America is more bothered about a footballer player getting a red card than they are about school shootings and the fact their president is a rapist sex offender.

[NFFC_ @psb_nffc]

@DylanFMackinnon @JDaBuddah What a dunce. Imagine being this thick and publicly showing everyone. Unbelievable levels of stupidity.

[Mustafa Marghadi @mousmar]

About the dumbest 'smart' take on the Belogun red card retraction I found. Read it though. It's a fun peek at American entitlement culture.

[NFFC_ @psb_nffc]

@ellencarmichael Imagine being this confident about something you have no clue about.

One of the dumbest things I've ever read

[Oscar Patel, Apparently @HendrickD82]

He still doesn't get that it wasn't about Balogun.

Nobody cares about Balogun. He's bang average.

It was about the sport. A sport that this world cup has already tarnished with "Powerade hydration breaks" and will continue to tarnish with a pedophile presenting the trophy.

It was about the rules of the game. Things crafted over decades. Being thrown away because the aforementioned pedophile threatened the President of FIFA and forced them to

A) Make a completely unprecedented decision.

B) Lie to cover it up.

C) Force the rest of the world to listen to and read the dumbest takes imaginable. As well as laughable bullshit about section 27, VAR not being applied properly, "bang bang plays" and all manner of stupidity from a bunch of people who won't watch another game until 2030, or in some cases until we are all unfortunate enough to have to suffer through another World Cup held in America.

[Elisa Mosini 🇪🇺🇮🇹 @MosiniElisa]

Americans still don't get it.
This isn't about winning or losing, it's about the integrity of the game.

Belgians, like Europeans in general, genuinely love and respect football.
You've tainted the sport with cheating and political interference.

You've dishonored football.

[Wynner 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇪🇺 @EuroWynner]

Trump managed to turn a World Cup that was honestly turning into a major US PR victory into a total national humiliation. Genius.

[Daniel Austin @_Dan_Austin]

Over the years, FIFA has suspended the likes of Nigeria, Kuwait, Indonesia, Pakistan, Congo, Sierra Leone, and Guatemala over government interference in football.

But the US president ringing up to get an on-field decision overturned?

Absolutely fine. Nothing to see here.

[j. mamana @jrmamana]

it's so funny that trump made the world cup about himself and promptly torpedoed the national team's mentals, robbing them of the rizz that sustained them and turning this humiliating performance into a cause célèbre for the entire world