@Cav408@ryanmcloughlin4@ModernWarzone 27 minute half time as well as “hydration” (ad) breaks. Football is a game of physical/mental endurance and momentum. These breaks completely change the rhythm of the game.
It’s horrible that the US is doing this to football, turning it into a Super-Bowl-style commercial clown show, totally abusing a tradition they don’t care about or understand.
If you’d like a paragraph to encapsulate the servile Infantino and his latest debasing performance before Trump in Trump Tower (where fifa pay rent for office space), here it is.
@ShangguanJiewen The main thing I remember about my layover in Beijing is being put in a holding pen while they scan your face as you enter the airport.
Richard Tice on Reform’s £500,000 donor:-
“My family have known the Cottrell family and the broader Hesketh family for 50 years, a very successful aristocratic family.”
“This is about the establishment trying to kill off a disruptive political party”
@coach_kevin_m@ChrisParry The culture also means that we have freely accessible football/rugby pitches everywhere - in every town and village in the UK. Kids can just pick up a ball and play whenever they want, which is huge for their development.
Eddie Jones: 'Antiquated rules' are stopping England from reaching 'a whole new level' as Springboks remain the 'great disruptors' https://t.co/X48FofYXQ3
The Independent Int'l Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory presents new report to the UN Human Rights Council.
"The evidence shows that Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted & killed by the Israeli security forces."
https://t.co/vMARqOLxpC
England v Ghana is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries' capitals sit right on the Prime Meridian
England has London, where the Prime Meridian was fixed. Ghana has Accra, the only other world capital to sit on the zero degree longitude line.
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.