Fawaz Qazi

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[Alan Shearer @alanshearer]

Either both are fouls or neither is a foul. But they’re not going to re-referee they told us. #itsshit

[Tony @UtdTony1]

🚨🎙️Toni Kroos on Portugal's national team:

"First of all, congratulations to Portugal. If the objective was to move on from Cristiano Ronaldo, then you've achieved it."

"For years, people kept saying Cristiano was the reason Portugal struggled. Others claimed the team would be better without him and that there was no difference between Portugal with or without Cristiano. Fine—now the pressure is on them to prove it."

"From this moment, people will judge this team by what they achieve after Cristiano. If they truly believed he was holding them back, then they must go on to win the next European Championship and compete seriously for the next World Cups. That's how football works—you have to back up your words with results."

"We all know Portugal's history before Cristiano Ronaldo, and we all know what he helped the national team achieve during his era. He played a huge role in changing the mentality of Portuguese football and helped deliver the biggest trophies in the country's history."

"What disappointed me wasn't the result—it was the attitude. Throughout the tournament, it often looked like the unity and fight that made this team successful in the past just wasn't there. Everyone watching could see that."

"Now there's no more debate about Cristiano. The spotlight is fully on this generation of players. They'll be judged by what they win from here on, not by what they say. Football always remembers trophies, not excuses."

[Mark Goldbridge @markgoldbridge]

Idiots blaming Ronaldo for Portugal bad performances. Clearly it's the Spanish Southgate making them dull and boring. Bruno looks like an imposter and so do the PSG lads

[𝗠𝗕𝗥. @absolutkylian]

🚨Cristiano Ronaldo sobre as críticas de Henry e Ibrahimovic:

🗣️: Eu vejo o que eles dizem sobre mim e não me importo com eles para ser honesto. Meu trabalho é marcar gols e é isso que tenho feito.

Eles podem dizer o que quiserem, eu marquei mais gols desde que completei 30 anos do que eles marcaram em toda a sua carreira.

[͏͏͏𝐉𝐚𝐲 ⌖ @cagiago_]

She thinks she loves him more than me

[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.

[Bruno Fernandes @B_Fernandes8]

Never stop dreaming... #mufc

@Cristiano 🐐🙌

[The Touchmine | 𝐓 @TouchmineX]

🚨🇦🇷 History repeats itself! ✨🟥

[WhatsThePoint @thehouseoffootb]

🚨🗣️ Thierry Henry on Cristiano Ronaldo vs DR Congo:

“Let me be very clear about something.”

🗣️ “Every time Cristiano Ronaldo steps onto a pitch, people expect miracles.”

🗣️ “And every time, he delivers something that keeps him in the conversation of the greatest ever.”

🗣️ “Tonight against DR Congo, it was another example of what he still brings to football.”

🗣️ “His movement inside the box, his positioning, his mentality… these are things you cannot teach.”

🗣️ “Even when the game is difficult, even when Portugal are under pressure, he is always there waiting for one moment.”

🗣️ “That's why he has scored goals for so many years at the highest level.”

🗣️ “People keep asking if Cristiano is finished.”

🗣️ “Finished players don't create chances every game.”

🗣️ “Finished players don't scare defenders the moment they enter the box.”

🗣️ “Finished players don't still decide matches in World Cups.”

🗣️ “Now, let's address the comparison with Messi.”

🗣️ “This is where people make football too simple.”

🗣️ “Messi and Ronaldo are not the same type of players.”

🗣️ “Cristiano is about efficiency, power, mentality, and finishing.”

🗣️ “Messi is about control, creativity, vision, and making the game look like art.”

🗣️ “You cannot judge them with the same formula.”

🗣️ “They changed football in different ways.”

🗣️ “Cristiano turned himself into a machine built for goals.”

🗣️ “Messi was born with football in his feet.”

🗣️ “And that's why this debate will never die.”

🗣️ “But what people forget is this: greatness is not only about style… it's about impact.”

🗣️ “And Ronaldo's impact is still massive.”

🗣️ “Even against teams like DR Congo, he demands attention from every defender.”

🗣️ “He opens space for others.”

🗣️ “He changes defensive structures just by being on the pitch.”

🗣️ “That is respect at the highest level.”

🗣️ “So when people say he is finished, I don't agree.”

🗣️ “I see a player who is still dangerous.”

🗣️ “Still competitive.”

🗣️ “Still hungry.”

🗣️ “And still capable of deciding games.”

🗣️ “As for the Messi comparison…”

🗣️ “I will say this.”

🗣️ “We are lucky.”

🗣️ “We are lucky to have lived in a generation where both exist at the same time.”

🗣️ “Because once they are gone, people will realize how special this era really was.”

🔥🐐🇵🇹🇦🇷

🗣️ “Ronaldo is not finished.”

🗣️ “Messi is not replaceable.”

🗣️ “And football will never be the same again.”

[UEFA Champions League @ChampionsLeague]

Cristiano vs Arsenal, 2009 semi-finals 🎥

#UCL

[(fan) Trey @UTDTrey]

I don’t even know who is worse between Barcelona fans and Arsenal fans

[Idris @7signxx]

"The moment a Chinese woman accepted Islam, and Sheikh Ahmed Al-Haddad recited the Shahada to her in Chinese... "

[CaughtOffside @caughtoffside]

🚨 Pep Guardiola hits back at Jim Ratcliffe: "We treat immigrants or people that come from other countries like they are the ones causing problems for our country. It's a big problem because the fact I am Catalan and you are British? What influence did we have on where we were born?

"Everyone wants to have a better life, everyone wants to have a better future for themselves and their families. Sometimes the opportunities are where you are born and sometimes it is in the place where you go.

"The colour of your skin or the place where you were born don't make a difference.

"Most people run away from their countries for the problems that are in their country, not because they want to leave.

"The more we embrace other cultures, truly embrace it, then we will have a better society - I do not have any doubts about that."

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Aside from his blatant lies/ignorance about UK population numbers, Ratcliffe is an immigrant tax exile in Monaco, and most of his Manchester United team are immigrants to UK. So he’s a stinking race-baiting hypocrite.