SRK

Un-gineer-turned-journalist and a sports lover. Tweets & RTs = personal opinion.

[SRK @srkbytes]

Definitely! Story of #KBFC's life! 😐😐

[Sarath 🧬 ⚽ 🇮🇳 @tinyphysician]

Alaaeddine Ajaraie goal against Kerala Blasters looks offside.

#MGISL #KBFC

[SRK @srkbytes]

Biggest mysteries in Indian football:
1. Why was Danish Farooq in the Kerala Blasters playing XI season after season?
2. Why do Gurpreet Singh Sandhu and Manvir Singh continue to make the starting XI for the Indian team?
😶😶🤦

[SRK @srkbytes]

#Messi pressurising the referee, who has since turned a blind eye to fouls from #DePaul and #Romero, and gifted at least two free kicks! SHAME!

[fan @NoodleHairCR7]

Why is Messi always beefing with ref

[SRK @srkbytes]

Salah fouled just outside the box. No replay on Zee5.
Ashour fouled just after #Messi missed the penalty. Again, no replay!
What is happening?? And yellow card for Egyptian staff.

No VAR check (for offside?) on the penalty, too? This #FIFAWorldCup2026 is a joke!

[SRK @srkbytes]

Messi is a great player. No doubt at all. But, the way the world football body and its officials shamelessly help him and push Argentina, it is embarrassing for any real football lover! SHAME!

[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.

[SRK @srkbytes]

The impugnity with which the match officials are turning a blind eye towards Argentine fouls match after match is a SHAME to the game! Messi should have missed this match because of a red card. Instead, he has added 4 goals! Yet another rigged #FIFAWorldCup? 🙄

[Pocomaster @pocomaster]

Clear foul on Austrian player leading to the building of Argentina goal. VAR wth are u doing. This is pure corruption.

[SRK @srkbytes]

BCCI reducing #IPL final innings-break to some kind of temple festival!
Hardly surprising when it's in Ahmedabad stadium with Jay Shah in attendance! 🤦🙄
#RCBvGT #GTvRCB

[SRK @srkbytes]

@rajasthanroyals This AD is so uncalled for, #RajasthanRoyals! Shame on you! Where's your sportsman spirit? Really pathetic 🤐🤦

[SRK @srkbytes]

And @KeralaBlasters GLUE DANISH TO THE BENCH!! DO NOT LET HIM ENTER THE FIELD!!

[SRK @srkbytes]

#ISL2026 #KBFCvsPFC
I am saying this again. SACK #DavidCatala AS COACH! He is clueless with his tactics. His starting XIs in each match defies logic. He is unable to inspire or motivate the players. PATHETIC FOOTBALL ALL AROUND. WHAT A SHAME!

[SRK @srkbytes]

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[SRK @srkbytes]

#SAvsNZ #NZvsSA
Third umpire Nitin Menon was fully and quickly convinced that the fingers were beneath the ball! I wonder how.. not a great decision at all.
But kudos to Daryl Mitchell for admitting that he wasn't sure about the catch. #JustNZthings

[SA Cricket magazine @SACricketmag]

Should Aiden Markram have been given out? #SAvNZ

[SRK @srkbytes]

#U19AsiaCup
There's only a fine line between aggression and recklessness. #GautamGambhir's team forgot it against Pakistan.
These teenagers like #VaibhavSuryavanshi and #AyushMhatre are just following in their footsteps today!
#ItIsCricketNotWar #WelcomeToNewIndia 🙄🙄

[SRK @srkbytes]

#KeralaBlasters #AIFFSuperCup
The jinx is real!
The curse is real!
Being proved, season after season!
IT'S F** UNBELIEVABLE!! 🤬😖😭

[SRK @srkbytes]

Once again, Kerala shows how it's done! This time, with film awards.
No honouring propaganda, or mediocrity! Or awarding people for work they did two decades ago! 👏❤️
#KeralaStateAward

[THE WEEK @TheWeekLive]

#Mammootty, #Bramayugam, #ManjummelBoys win big as #KeralaStateFilmAwards declared! Check out all winners here:

https://t.co/qnNpDrfL3F
https://t.co/qnNpDrfL3F

[SRK @srkbytes]

#AsiaCup2025 #INDvPAK
No handshakes. Not naming Pakistan in press conferences. Not sure who is the brain behind such useless gimmicks and jingoism - Suryakumar Yadav or Gautam Gambhir! It's just cricket. Nothing more, nothing less. Period. 🤦🙄

[SRK @srkbytes]

Such a relief to be able to see 'INDIA' on the jerseys without the sponsorship clutter! 🥲 #INDvsUAE #AsiaCup2025

[BCCI @BCCI]

#TeamIndia is 𝑹𝑬𝑨𝑫𝒀 👊

#AsiaCup2025 | #INDvUAE

[Pinarayi Vijayan @pinarayivijayan]

By honouring a film that spreads blatant misinformation with the clear intent of tarnishing Kerala’s image and sowing seeds of communal hatred, the jury of the #NationalFilmAwards has lent legitimacy to a narrative rooted in the divisive ideology of the Sangh Parivar. Kerala, a land that has always stood as a beacon of harmony and resistance against communal forces, has been gravely insulted by this decision. It is not just Malayalis, but everyone who believes in democracy, must raise their voice in defence of truth and the constitutional values we hold dear.

[SRK @srkbytes]

RCB done. Over to you, @KeralaBlasters and @CBF_Futebol!

#DareToDream #RCBvsPBKS #ViratKohli𓃵 #IPLFinals

[Royal Challengers Bengaluru @RCBTweets]

Raw emotions. 🔥

[SRK @srkbytes]

K-I-N-G K-O-H-L-I !!!! Nobody deserves it more than you @imVkohli! It has been a tough 17 years, 6,256 days and 90,08,640 being an @RCBTweets fan! FINALLY! 🥹🥹❤️

[Royal Challengers Bengaluru @RCBTweets]

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 ⭐️ RCB PLAYED BOLD! 😇

17 Years, 6256 Days, 90,08,640 Minutes later, the wait finally ends. 🙌🤯

The IPL Trophy is finally coming home. And we CANT KEEP CALM! 🤩😍❤️