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[M.\tt 🟡🟢 @CosmicMatt92]

Imagine complaining about the team looking slugging when you've just started the old man Leckie and Nishan who did absolutely nothing for a dogshit Melbourne Victory this past season.

That's like turning on a heater, standing right next to it, and complaining that your legs are getting hot.

Absolute disaster from the FA to give this fraud another contract before a game has even been played.

[Ray Gatt @Gatty54]

Happy to be corrected here but exactly what does Velupillay bring to the Socceroos? I don’t see it. Hope I’m wrong.

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🚨 VINI JR JUST TOLD FIFA: “WE’LL PAY THE FINE — BUT NOBODY FROM US IS DOING HALF-TIME INTERVIEWS.”

During Brazil’s World Cup match, Vinícius refused the mandatory tunnel interview.

Reporter: “You’ll get a huge fine for this.”

Vini: “We’ll pay. But nobody is coming to the mic.”

This isn’t arrogance. It’s players finally saying enough to FIFA’s corporate circus.

Half-time should be for tactics, water, recovery — not feeding the broadcast machine while the game gets sliced up for ads (sound familiar with those forced “welfare” breaks?).

FIFA under Infantino has turned football into a product. Mandatory everything. Player focus as an afterthought. Suits in Zurich cashing in.

Brazil and Vini just pushed back. Raw. Direct. No bowing to the machine.

The beautiful game belongs to the players on the pitch — not boardrooms selling every second.

Who else is done with this?

[.\lex 🇮🇹🇦🇺🇵🇾 @AliG040803]

Never in my life have I been prouder to be Australian than when I heard a pub full of people erupt into cheers after seeing a 10 year old Turkish boy crying in the crowd.

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿ABE🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MRIRBT]

American broadcasters keep cutting to celebrities in the crowds and the UK commentators just go silent every time.

WE. DO. NOT. CARE.

No-one wants your horrible commercial culture to destroy football. This tournament is bad enough.

[Alfie | HITC Sevens @HITCSevens]

When the U.K. Foreign Office considered denying North Koreans visas to play at the 1966 World Cup, FIFA told the FA that they would immediately relocate the tournament.

That was when FIFA still had something remotely resembling a spine.

[Max Laughton @maxlaughton]

Steven King just called Kozzy Pickett "a genetic freak" on #AFL360.

Because you know, they say that all men are created equal, but you look at him and you look at Samoa Joe and you can see that statement is not true.

See, normally if you go one on one with another footy team, you got a 50/50 chance of winning. But Kozzy's a genetic freak and he's not normal! So you got a 25%, AT BEST, at beat him. Then you add Kurt Angle to the mix, your chances of winning drastic go down.

See the 3 way at Sacrifice, you got a 33 1/3 chance of winning, but Kozzy, Kozzy got a 66 and 2/3 chance of winning, because Kurt Angle KNOWS he can't beat Kozzie and he's not even gonna try!

So Samoa Joe, you take your 33 1/3 chance, minus Kozzy's 25% chance and you got an 8 1/3 chance of winning at Sacrifice.

But then you take Kozzy's 75% chance of winning, if they was to go one on one, and then add 66 2/3 per cents, Kozzy got 141 2/3 chance of winning at Sacrifice.

See Joe, the numbers don't lie, and they spell disaster for you at Sacrifice.

[Craig Foster @Craig_Foster]

Disappointing but not suprising results from Football Australia, yesterday.

While a review is needed into the failure to capitalise on the 2023 Women’s World Cup particularly, which should have set the entire game up for the next several decades, it is the failure of the governing body and professional game to work together that has been most damaging, in my view.

Since separation, there has been a fundamental lack of alignment that saw the two sides of the game too often in direct competition.

Thankfully, that appears to be changing, finally.

The game should also conduct a thorough analysis of its governance structure, and associated inability to capitalise fully on its size and scale.

There are final reforms required that have long been avoided so that football can finally act as one voice, with one path, one ambition and one strategy, delivered locally.

Without this, the same pattern repeats.

The structure of the game must wholly facilitate its ambitions, not act as an impediment, or a disincentive.

Whether the game has the courage to take these necessary steps, however, is the question.

With the correct acumen and ambition, it should not need failure to spur change again, such as early this century, but to keep aggressively evolving, collectively with a clear, shared plan.

In future, this should be a given, right throughout the game.

That’s the challenge for everyone involved in leadership positions in 2026.

[Boston Globe Pitchbot @BostonSatire]

Yikes: TMZ uncovers photos of Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini inside Madden 2002 PlayStation game

[Welsh Olly @bttngaccnt]

@ATokkers5 He’s such try hard. Everything has to have an edge of cynicism or controversy to it. He’s a stupid persons idea of a “clever bloke”

[Trevor Sikkema @TampaBayTre]

My entire adolescence prepared me for this text from my wife this morning

[Thomas @thomaslufc9211]

Cant believe people thought Joeshorn James would be a challenge for 50 cal. Way too easy..

[Thomas @thomaslufc9211]

Might be the last time we see Mundine on tv for a while.

[The Away Fans @theawayfans]

Marcelo Bielsa: "I am sure that football is in a process of decline.

"It is becoming less and less attractive because what made it the best game in the world is not there anymore.

"If you let a lot of people watch football, but you don't protect the pleasure of what they watch, that favours business, because the business is that a lot of people watch football.

"For me, the introduction of technology like VAR does a lot of harm to football.

"This sport has a particularity: when it becomes completely predictable, it loses its appeal.

"As time passes, as fewer and fewer footballers are worth watching and as the game produced is less and less enjoyable, this artificial increase in the number of spectators will be interrupted."

[Derek @terkey76]

@Sammy__Edmund Holland’s privacy should absolutely be respected.

However - everyone within the Carlton hierarchy that knew something before the game… and there will be many - should be made accountable.

And publicly, so this never occurs again.

This from a lifelong Bagger.

[Thomas @thomaslufc9211]

@chloekwilliams @legendarihhhh This attitude towards players is why guys like Harry wont ever really care if they're playing shit, they know they'll be in next week.

[Jason Bennett @JasonBennettTV]

Hasn’t taken long for ‘Last Disposal’ to morph into ‘Last Touch.’ If ball goes out after glancing bottom of player’s boot or leg, he’s not getting a Disposal for that yet gets pinged for it. If umps need to confer, fair chance that no ‘Disposal’ was involved. #AFLCrowsBlues

[Permante @PermantexG]

I always wonder what the matchmakers are thinking.
You’ve got a Thai guy who’s going to be hopelessly outclassed, with a completely empty fake record, and you put him as the opener on a PPV main card that costs 60 Australian dollars? That’s crazy.

#TszyuNurja

[Thomas @thomaslufc9211]

@rmckr @ausboxing There's no limit to the depths they'll sink