Not just Balogun & Ronaldo… FIFA also decided Inter Miami were invited to the inaugural Club World Cup on rather tenuous grounds, seemingly purely on the basis of Messi’s economic benefits.
Not at all unsurprising that people would have similar suspicions here! A real shame.
Craziest NBA things that could happen this month….
1. Paul George fails his physical
2. LeBron decides on a Roger Clemens-type February FA signing plan
3. Ballmer buys the Seahawks, puts the Clippers up for sale
Il y avait + de joueurs nés en Afrique dans l’équipe de France 1998 (2 : Patrice Vieira né au Sénégal et Marcel Desailly né au Ghana) que dans l’équipe de France 2026 (1 : Brice Samba qui est né au Congo).
Et : n’importe quelle personne a forcément des origines, prenons par exemple « le cas » de l’équipe du Paraguay (outre le fait que 3 joueurs soient nés hors du Paraguay comme pour l’équipe de France) : le Paraguay compte des joueurs ayant des origines espagnoles (en majorité), italiennes, argentines, allemandes et brésiliennes.
Bref : preuve que le problème pour ces gens n’est pas l’origine mais la couleur de peau.
Cole Palmer bro please man fight back next season. Please bro I’m begging you. You’re just as good if not better than this guy please bro I’m kinda homeless rn
BREAKING: LeBron James will continue his NBA career for the 2026-27 season and has informed the Los Angeles Lakers that the franchise can move on without him because he will play elsewhere, Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul tells ESPN.
I don’t think it’s fair to speak this way about people who put their lives in harm’s way for the safety of others.
We’ve become far too comfortable dehumanising people at the front lines because we think it's their job to do so.
As an example that is seemingly mundane but important to beneficiaries: Disney used to have a fairly liberal disability access pass to skip lines. Right up to the point where it came out that rich people had been renting disabled people. Not an exaggeration. 1/
i know disability rights groups hate gatekeeping but the victims of this sort of cheating are actually disabled people.
And I will repeat my modest proposal that the state bar audit people who claimed disability accommodations in the moral character process.
Note: Tunisia wasn't on track to qualify for the world cup until FIFA decided that Equatorial Guinea's capitan and all time leading scorer wasn't eligible and robbed them of 6 points.
Watching the World Cup has me asking questions. Do Europeans get issued 8 weeks of vacation, unlimited airline miles, and a trust fund at birth? Because every match I turn on there are 40,000 fans following their team to a different state or country on a Tuesday afternoon while Americans are hiding in a work bathroom checking scores.
The England FA should probably send Said Martinez a bottle of champagne today. He’s genuinely the only reason why they aren’t entering the Panama match with 3 points and with Jude Bellingham suspended.
Different standards for different teams.