So, Trump is gonna give Iran $300 billion to open a strait that wasn’t closed, so long as they promise not build a nuke they didn’t have?
Do I have that just about right?
Pausa de hidratación a las 9:30pm en Boston a 24 grados. Infantino acabó con el fútbol. Es nuestro deber moral criticar esta estupidez hasta que la quiten.
Arturo Vidal on the officiating controversies in Bayern Munich vs PSG across both legs, explaining why Bayern were “robbed” and breaks down the rules behind every controversial incident:
🗣️ “Everyone saw it. Don’t gaslight football fans and pretend this was ‘just bad luck’ for Bayern. Over two legs, the officiating was a complete disgrace. A club fights for 180 minutes at the highest level and then everything gets decided by inconsistency, politics, and fear of making decisions against PSG. People are tired of pretending this is normal.
First leg, Alphonso Davies handball. Explain to me how that is a penalty? The ball deflects off his thigh first and then hits the arm from close range. According to IFAB guidance, deflections at close distance with no reaction time are NOT supposed to be punished the same way as deliberate handballs. But suddenly VAR jumps in to help PSG? That decision changed the momentum of the tie immediately. If that’s a penalty, then defenders should just cut their arms off before entering the box.
Then in the Return leg, with Kane offside incident. This one is unbelievable. The assistant referee raises the flag early and the referee blows immediately before the attack even finishes. Modern officiating instructions are crystal clear:
if it’s tight, LET THE PLAY CONTINUE and check afterward with VAR. Everybody saw the replay, Kane was onside. Bayern were through on goal and the referee killed the attack because he guessed. Guessed! At this level! You cannot do that in a Champions League semifinal unless you are terrified of one team progressing.
And then Nuno Mendes. Already on a yellow card, clearly handles the ball to stop Bayern’s attack. By the laws of the game, stopping a promising attack with deliberate handball is a yellow card offense. So where is the second yellow? Where? Instead Bayern somehow concede a free-kick? Football fans are not blind. If that’s Bayern doing it against PSG, the red card comes out in two seconds.
Now let’s talk about João Neves’ handball in the box. This is where the corruption screams at you. The ball hits the arm inside the penalty area after the clearance situation and suddenly VAR disappears. No review, no consistency, nothing.
And then Luis Díaz gets booked for protesting after obvious contact that gets ignored. Imagine the arrogance. Players are getting punished for asking referees to do their jobs correctly. Instead of reviewing the challenge, they silence the complaint with a yellow card. That’s modern football now, don’t question the officials, even when they are deciding the tie.
Bayern didn’t lose this tie on football alone. They lost it to cowardly officiating, selective VAR intervention, and political favoritism. Europe should be furious because today it’s Bayern, tomorrow it’s another club outside the protected circle. The Champions League is supposed to be about merit, not about who has the strongest connections behind closed doors.”
I'm 35 and have been following European Leagues for a LONG TIME! It really feels like every pundit is afraid to talk about consistent bad decisions involving Real Madrid. What's so bad about even just objectively pointing it out?
You simply cannot talk about that half without discussing those two terrible calls (Diaz, Rudiger).
Is anyone's coverage across the world actually talking about these???
#FCBRMA
Three weeks ago, Louise Lyngsholm Lave barely knew who Pete Hegseth was.
Now, after co-creating their third music video for Bruce Kluger’s savage satire album “MAGA Country,” it would appear she knows way too much.
And the scariest part?
Real life is catching up to the absurdity faster than the video could predict.
Welcome to Macho Pete territory. 🎥🔥
I've taught European history for 30 years. Americans have always asked me how the Holocaust was possible, how Germans could have enabled a madman reveling in mass murder to carry out his plans. Now we can see in real time how this is enabled; now we have front-row seats.