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🚨🗣️New: Zlatan Ibrahimovic on Vinicius Junior refusing the mandatory halftime interview with FIFA at the World Cup:

“People are shocked that Vinícius walked away from a halftime interview. I am shocked that anyone thinks he should have stopped in the first place.

Halftime is not a television studio. Halftime is not a podcast. Halftime is not a red carpet. Halftime is the heartbeat of a football match.

For 45 minutes, players are warriors in a storm. They run, they fight, they suffer, they bleed. Then they get 15 precious minutes to recover, to breathe, to listen, to think. And FIFA wants to spend part of that time chasing soundbites? That is like pulling a Formula 1 driver out of his car during a pit stop and asking him how the race is going.

And FIFA’s idea is to shove a microphone in the player’s face and ask, ‘How do you feel?’

How do you think he feels? He’s exhausted.

This is modern football’s biggest disease. Everything is content. Everything is sponsorship. Everything is television. The match hasn’t even finished and they’re already trying to manufacture headlines.

They tell us they care about player welfare. Really? Then why are players playing more games than ever? Why are tournaments expanding? Why are injuries increasing? And now they want halftime interviews too? The hypocrisy is unbelievable.

Halftime is sacred. It belongs to the players and the coaches. That’s where games are won. That’s where tactics change. That’s where injuries get treated. That’s where leaders speak. It is not a media circus.

And don’t tell me this is for the fans. Fans want better football, not a tired player giving a robotic 20-second answer because somebody sold another broadcast package.

Vinícius understood that. He chose football over public relations.

The funniest part? They threaten him with a fine. A fine. As if that changes the principle. If I were there, I’d pay it too. Because some things are worth more than money.

If FIFA really had their way, they’d put microphones in the dressing room and call it innovation.

Football should come first. Not content. Not commercials. Not corporate greed.

For once, a player pushed back. And that’s exactly why so many people are angry.”

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[Everton @Everton]

Remembering the 97 on the 37th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster. A tragic day for football and our city.

Forever in our thoughts. 💙❤️

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🤯JORDAN LEE PICKFORD WITH THE SAVE OF THE SEASON!🤯

[Everton Women @EvertonWomen]

💙 The perfect surprise for a deserving Blue!

🤩 Everton Women fan Talia was left stunned when her trip to the Club's training ground turned into her spending a dream morning with her favourite players.

[Everton Academy @EvertonAcademy]

WE’RE IN THE QUARTER-FINALS!!!!

What a comeback from the Toffees! 👌 #FAYouthCup

[Matthew @MatthewTorbitt]

Today is the day, I think I can truly say I’ve seen it all.

[Everton @Everton]

This place. 💙

On the banks of the Royal Blue Mersey. ✊

[toffeegirl76 @joannedrew76]

My little goalie met his hero today at Alder Hey. Jordan loved Oscar’s hoodie, he wants one for his son! Jordan gave Oscar loads of tips for being mentally strong & was just lovely. As where the rest of the players. Amazing day. You made my son’s year, so thank you @Everton 💙

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Our Toffee Lady tradition returns for a new era! 🍬

#EVENEW

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We kept receipts. 🤫 🔵

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[stuart mason @stuartmason001]

@TheRobVera Sorry for your loss

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If you’ve downloaded your digital Season Ticket but it’s no longer appearing in the wallet on your phone, you may need to recover it from your expired passes or archive.

Here’s how to do it…

[Rog @WSBlues]

Why not it’s been a few, need the luck of the giveaway.. like, retweet and follow, will pick a few winners post match .. UTFT! The decal not the car!

[The 1878s @The1878s]

🔵⚪️🔵 OUR FIRST HOME GAME 🔵⚪️🔵

Over the summer we have been working with the club regarding a flag display for our first ever competitive game at our new home vs Brighton on Sunday.

We both felt it was important to make it feel like ‘Home’ for the players and manger when they first walk out the tunnel from day one & give them a familiar kind of sight that they have become used to over the past few seasons.

In honour of this commemorative occasion, the club are providing flags on every home seat in the stadium. These flags will make up 3 tifo displays in the South, East and North stands of the ground and also flags in the West Stand. Both ourselves and the club are asking all fans to wave their flags at the start of the siren until after the players line up so the display is clear.

These flags are from the club as a keep sake/momento from the game and occasion which fans can take home.

UP THE TOFFEES 🔵⚪️🔵⚪️🔵⚪️🔵

[stuart mason @stuartmason001]

@_laurag23 @footyheritage @mintisculture @TheBlueRoomEFC @EvertonNewsFeed Super shots 🤌🏻

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

The facts about what happened with the Hillsborough Law in Parliament today (11th July):

1. The bill debated was not a government bill. It was a Private Members’ Bill introduced by Labour MP Ian Byrne. The government hasn’t yet introduced its own version of the Hillsborough Law.

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

I wrote this out a week or so ago as a full on explainer of Palace’s POV over all of this, in case UEFA decided to demote us or kick us out of Europe altogether, given how many neutrals are likely to see the decision and then ask for the intricacies of it all.

It’s Palace’s perspective, I’m not saying that UEFA are right or wrong before bundles of neutrals get on my case, it really is just an explainer in the most thorough way I can manage on here.

Cheers.

Shares weren’t placed into Blind Trust because John Textor never had decisive control.

He has spoken openly on many occasions about Parish being the man who calls the shots at Palace well before this issue became newsworthy.

If Textor did have anything like “decisive control”, it’s fair to assume that we would be in just as much of a financial hole as every other club he gets his hands on. In reality, Palace are prudently run and have always remained comfortably inside PSR regulations, whilst Lyon’s debt has increased alarmingly throughout Textor’s time at the helm.

Given he had clear and decisive control of Lyon without any ambiguity; why weren’t his shares in the French club placed into Blind Trust?

The Deadline for putting shares in Blind Trust was July 1st until this year; why would you move that to March 1st when the season was still in full swing?

We were playing Millwall in the Round of 16 on the day of the March deadline; it’s hardly as if we were on the verge of winning the first major trophy in our entire history. We had to beat Fulham (A) + Villa and Man City at Wembley to get there from that point.

Lyon only got into the Europa League on the final day of the season thanks to a 99th minute Le Havre equaliser at Strasbourg which elevated Lyon into their Europa League spot on GD; it’s hardly as if this was a likely scenario back in late February.

John Textor had been actively trying to sell his stake in Palace for well over 18 months prior to the Blind Trust deadline, simply because he had no tangible influence behind the scenes and grew extremely frustrated at running into a brick wall time and time again.

His aim had always been to bring us into his multi-club model alongside Lyon, Botafogo and Molenbeek only to be told repeatedly that the other members of our board had no interest in such a shift of strategy.

The only piece of business done between the two clubs throughout John Textor’s time on either board was the sale of a fringe first-team player in Jake O’Brien (who made 0 Premier League appearances for Palace) to Lyon in the summer of 2023.

John Textor has now agreed to a sale of his shares in Palace to American Woody Johnson, meaning that with Premier League approval, there is zero tangible link between Textor and the club.

John Textor has also stepped down from his role as the head of Lyon with Michelle Kang taking his place, meaning that by the time the Europa League draw is made, the man UEFA are seemingly worried about having influence will not be involved in the decision making process at either club in any sense, decisive or otherwise.

Lyon were initially relegated to Ligue 2 by the DNCG after accumulating more than €500m of debt and being warned back in November of 2024 that they needed to get their house in order by June of 2025.

Following the call to relegate them, they were given a 2 week period to get their house in order, removing John Textor from the position at the head of the hierarchy and injecting further funds into the club, despite little to no sign that it’s anything other than a plaster on a long-term gaping wound.

With French football in a major mess in terms of TV contracts and general interest in Ligue 1, there was a widespread desire from stakeholders outside of the Lyon bubble to ensure that they were reinstated to the top tier, future proofing the league as a whole from further drop offs in interest rather than dishing out appropriate punishments for financial mismanagement on a major scale.