HANI HARRISE

MUFC ❤️ | Movies| and also trying to be an Engineer.

[SammyArmstrong @SammyRArmstrong]

At 35, John Krasinski could not do a single pull-up.

A year later, training to play a Navy SEAL in 13 Hours, he banged out 20 in a row.

Here is how the guy from The Office rebuilt his body:

[Lost In Film @LostInFilm]

The entire Criterion Closet is now available as a website, where you can browse all 1,247 films by walking the shelves, thanks to redditor olievans.

https://t.co/O2b7MwzCZj

[D O N-C O R L E O N E🥷🏿⚱️ @wickidest_skeng]

To put Ronaldo into perspective, these are the best players in the world, and three of them grew up idolizing him.

[gam @mbafraaude]

Fijaros en Cristiano. Primero le dice a Bruno por donde tiene que correr y luego por donde le tiene que meter el pase. Es hipnótico.

[Vidya @VidyaKrishnan]

R Madhavan is the exact Tam-Brahm Sanghi they warn you about. This man will walk over corpses if it gets him ahead in life.
Laanat.

[Dr Yash  @YashRMFC]

World Cup goals without penalties:

Ronaldo - 10
Messi - 10

[TC @totalcristiano]

The greatest celebration in history. 🐐 https://t.co/7TBq8DPiwW

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🇵🇹 OFFICIAL: CRISTIANO RONALDO IS THE FIRST PLAYER EVER TO SCORE AT 6 WORLD CUPS.

[postydiary @postydiary]

the art of trying anyway

[(fan) Mario @Mario___RM]

Está de vacaciones toda la temporada en Miami jugando en una liga donde llaman “Soccer” al fútbol, marca 5 goles contra Argelia y Austria y entra directamente en conversaciones de Balón de Oro.

Es imposible competir contra este relato.

[Kimi Regal @RegalKimi]

After Ronaldo won EURO 2016 while Messi was still without a senior international trophy, a common argument across football media, punditry and mainstream football discourse was that international trophies were not essential to determining individual greatness. Football was said to be a team sport, and a player’s legacy should not be reduced to what he won with his national team.

At the time, Messi had lost four major international finals with Argentina and had even retired from international football after the 2016 Copa América final defeat to Chile.

A few months later, Messi returned. What followed was an unusually busy Copa América schedule. The tournament was played in 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2021, four editions in just six years. Many observers could not help but notice that a player who had repeatedly fallen short was being given more opportunities to win in a short period and rightly so. Eventually, Messi won the 2021 Copa América.

For years, the football world had been told that international trophies were not necessary to be considered the greatest of all time. When Messi lacked an international trophy, the importance of international success was routinely downplayed.

Similarly, when Messi lacked a World Cup, it was not considered essential to being the GOAT. Once he won it in Qatar, however, the World Cup was elevated from being one achievement among many to the achievement that supposedly settled the GOAT debate forever.

To many Ronaldo supporters, this is the clearest example of shifting goalposts in football history. The standards appeared to change at every stage until they aligned perfectly with Messi’s résumé. What was once irrelevant became important. What was important became essential. And once Messi achieved it, the debate was declared over.

In Qatar, Argentina received five penalties during the tournament, a World Cup record for a single team in one edition. Several refereeing decisions involving Argentina remain debated to this day, including Messi’s handball incident against the Netherlands that some believe warranted a second yellow card.

For many critics, these were not isolated incidents but part of a wider pattern they believe has followed Messi throughout his career, where controversial decisions repeatedly seem to fall in his favour. They point to numerous moments over the years where they believe punishments that would have been applied to other players were overlooked when Messi was involved. Some supporters have even argued that similar concerns resurfaced only recently, after another incident in which they believe Messi was fortunate to avoid a red card.

Whether one agrees with that view or not, it has become a significant reason why many Ronaldo supporters remain sceptical of the narrative surrounding Messi’s achievements and the way they are discussed by the football establishment and mainstream media.

For many Ronaldo supporters, the issue has never simply been about preferring one player over another. It is about what they perceive as inconsistent standards. They see achievements weighed differently depending on who accomplished them. They see one player protected from scrutiny while the other is subjected to it at every turn.

That is why many continue to side with Ronaldo. Not because to many he is the greatest to ever kick a ball or he has won every trophy or because he is beyond criticism, but because they believe the standards applied to him have often been harsher than those applied to his greatest rival.

They would rather support a player who loses with his honour intact than celebrate victories they believe are surrounded by unanswered questions.

As José Mourinho once said: “If I have to win in that way, I would be ashamed.”

For them, the issue is not simply who won. It is whether the criteria for greatness remained consistent throughout the debate. In their view, they did not.

[Mal @UtdMaI]

I’m genuinely desperate for Lionel Messi to retire so I can finally enjoy a World Cup without feeling like FIFA is bending over backwards to hand it to him. The bias feels so blatant at times it’s actually disgusting.

[HANI HARRISE @radicaldevil7]

Paid.

[Winna F.C. @WinnaFC]

🚨| BREAKING: If Argentina win tonight, this could be their path to the semi-finals.😳

[DisTurB🎮 @DisTurB____]

this freekick tells me two this.

1. no footballler can score from that angle
2. no football has the audacity to even think of shooting to score from that angle

ronaldo is him

[Kev 屮 @UtdKev08]

Casemiro breaking down into tears when giving his final message to Manchester United.

So beautiful yet heartbreaking. 🥺💔

[#1 Space Jam 2 Lover @JoshuaTookes]

Whenever I feel too depressed or have thoughts about ending myself at some point, I always come back to this scene

[Men of Purpose @Men_Of_Purpose]

She literally tells the weekly audit puts you ahead of 92% of people.

[R. @Rzj77_]

Prime De Gea vs Zidanes son wearing a Batman mask