🚨🗣️New: Mohamed Salah on the controversial officiating decisions in Egypt and Argentina game, Messi and Argentina are being favored:
“People will say Argentina showed the mentality of champions. Fine. But tell me this: when exactly did Egypt get the same protection from the officials?
We scored a second goal. The stadium exploded. The world saw it. Then suddenly VAR became an archaeologist, digging through the ruins of football history to find a foul from another lifetime.
Funny how they could rewind the game Five minutes to cancel our goal, but when I was brought down in the box, everyone suddenly forgot where the replay button was.
That’s what hurts. Not losing. Not Argentina.
The inconsistency.
One decision gets examined under a microscope. Another gets buried under the carpet.
We were told football is decided on the pitch. Tonight it felt like it was decided in a control room.
And let’s talk about those final minutes.
Two penalty appeals. Two moments that could have changed everything. Nothing. No review. No urgency. No explanation.
Then Argentina go down the other end and score the winner.
That isn’t a plot twist. That’s the kind of script that leaves millions of people asking questions.
Egypt fought for every blade of grass. We defended. We believed. We earned our moments.
But every time we climbed the mountain, someone moved the summit.
The disallowed goal.
The ignored penalty shouts.
The cards flying around our bench because people who dedicate their lives to this game couldn’t understand what they were witnessing.
And now we’re expected to smile and say football won?
No.
Football wins when the rules are applied equally.
Football wins when VAR is a shield for fairness, not a sword that appears only when convenient.
Because from where I’m standing, Egypt didn’t just lose 3-2.
Egypt lost a goal, lost two penalty appeals, lost faith in consistency, and eventually lost a place in the quarter-finals.
Maybe Argentina deserved to advance.
Maybe they didn’t.
That’s football.
But what will make people angry isn’t the result.
It’s the feeling that one team was forced to play against eleven men, the clock, and a set of decisions that seemed to change shape whenever the game demanded it.
And that’s why this match will be remembered long after the scoreline is forgotten.”
Zionism is not reformable because it is racism (among other ills) by definition. If you take the racism out of Zionism you no longer have Zionism. What does that tell you.
The BBC has just graduated from genocide enablement to active participation in the imminent killing of Dr Hussam Abu-Safiyeh, by providing the justification.
عاااااااجل : أسطورة الكرة الإنجليزية آلان شيرار:
عندما يعود الحكم للـ VAR في هدف مصر ويُلغيه بسبب إعاقة في بداية اللعبة، ولا يعود للـ VAR في هدف فوز الأرجنتين رغم وجود إعاقتين في بداية اللعبة.. إذًا فنحن نشاهد "مسرحية" وليست مباراة كرة قدم.
إذا كان الفيفا يرغب في إهداء كأس العالم لميسي فليعطيه اللقب من الآن ويذهب لاعبو باقي المنتخبات إلى منازلهم 👏👏👏👏👏
@HFalconerMP I'm sure the Israeli government really, really, really took note of your strongly worded letter as they torture a doctor to death. This is worse than doing nothing. It tells Netanyahu that you see horrific crimes but won't do anything meaningful to stop it.
Scandalous.
18 months in arbitrary detention. No charge. No evidence. Torture attested by his lawyer, marks visible on his body.
And instead of covering this, @BBC amplifies Israel's unproven claims casting doubt on a hostage doctor.
>BBC's journalism in the time of genocide.
Labour sent this spy plane over Gaza daily for a year
Intelligence it collected was handed to the genocidal Israeli army in real-time
Labour’s commitment to the genocide of Palestinians has been unwavering for 80 years
Good to see Andy Burnham embracing scrutiny by taking no questions after his first “landmark” speech that was little more than just vibes.
The question he can’t avoid forever when he becomes PM is: when will the UK stop selling arms to the genocidal apartheid state of Israel?
The Israeli government has equipped Israeli settlers in the West Bank with drones, which are being used to harass and attack Palestinians.
Israeli settler terrorism is not the work of a few extremists. It is state-backed terrorism.
Why did our ruling class not invest in decarbonising faster to avoid this acceleration in deadly heatwaves that scientists warned would come? Because of the capitalist law of value.
Capital invests in what is most profitable to capital, rather than what is most necessary for humanity, so our ruling class keeps ploughing investment into fossil fuels and SUVs, while we get far too little in renewables and public transit, even while the world burns around us.
We have more than enough capacity (labour, factories, technology) to address the climate crisis, but as long as capital controls investment and production we are prevented from doing it.
We are trapped by the capitalist law of value, living in a miserable shadow of the world we could have.
The MSM are barely talking about the new UN report, which found Israel deliberately targeted children in Gaza, so I guess it’s down to us to spread the word then, as usual.
Israel has killed at least 21k children in Gaza. The UN report documents copious evidence to demonstrate intentional targeting. This person thinks it can't be true because if it was Israel would have killed more. Imagine thinking that and then posting it publicly.
Andy Burnham was so effective at privatising the NHS as Health Secretary he was even praised by the Conservatives
Burnham is another empty suit - with an even worse pre-leadership record than Keir Starmer
"Labour" is finished
A reminder that Jeremy Corbyn absolutely thrashed Andy Burnham in the 2015 Labour leadership contest because Corbyn’s offering was genuinely bold and exciting.
If you’re enthused by Burnham today, it’s only because Starmer has been so goddamn awful.
1/ With the competence he is known for, failed propagandist Eylon Levy chose me to ask fro evidence.
Thread of evidence that Israel murders babies with flying death robots.