Some people don't seem to understand why everyone is so outraged about the 🇭🇷 Croatia vs. Portugal 🇵🇹 robbery, so let me explain.
It's precisely because multiple things that would have lifted the offside were ignored, multiple things were handled differently than usual, and several suspicious details are present on top of it all.
So it's both the factually false detection of a touch that wasn't there, AND the way it was handled, which raises even more suspicion:
1. Even if Matanović's head 🤯 touched the ball, it didn't change the trajectory -> no offside
2. Even if Matanović's hair 💇♂️ touched the ball, hair is excluded in the offside rulebook -> no offside
3. Even if he did touch it with force, Veiga still went for the ball deliberately -> no offside
4. Offside is normally never checked at the screen by the main ref. Normally the VAR sees Veiga's header on the first replay, says "ah, Portugal touched it, no offside," and that's the end of it.
5. No change of trajectory is visible on the ball. Instead of blindly trusting a questionable chip inside the ball, the ref could have trusted his own eyes -> goal stands
6. Letting a minuscule alleged touch that didn't affect the ball overturn one of the craziest goals in World Cup history is suspicious in and of itself. It hints at an agenda or bias by the refs and VAR.
7. The penalty given to Portugal was already a false decision.
8. FIFA using B-tier referees raises the suspicion that they're chosen deliberately: a ref without a big name is more likely to enforce the rules to the letter, out of fear that FIFA won't invite him (and pay him) at the next tournament. A big refereeing name would at least have the courage to decide by feel for the game.
9. Previous games where Ronaldo was already helped by the refereeing.
10. The observation that rules are applied far more strictly against small nations than against the big names.
11. Semi-automated offside tech was sold to us as eliminating human error. Instead, a sensor blip that nobody can see with their own eyes was used to overrule what everybody COULD see. If the technology can't be verified by the footage, the footage should win.
12.FIFA is visibly willing to trade away trust and raw emotion (nobody can celebrate a goal anymore before the check period is over, fans get fed up and stop watching because of this BS) in exchange for control over outcomes, because keeping the biggest names in the tournament as long as possible is what makes their commercial goals easily reachable.
🇭🇷 Croatia got eliminated from the World Cup by a closed-source sensor.
FIFA says the Kinexon chip in the Trionda "proved" Matanović touched the ball. Absolute disgrace. What actually happened: they ran signal processing over 500Hz IMU data from a 14-gram sensor and isolated a supposed contact spike from thousands of noisy samples dominated by bladder harmonics, panel flex, spin wobble and stadium micro-tremors, then nullified one of the most dramatic World Cup equalizers in history via spectral analysis of what is essentially glorified noise.
Oh, and it gets better. They moved the chip this year. Back in 2022, it used to hang suspended in the center of the ball. Now it's glued into the sidewall of ONE panel, with counterweights stuffed into the other three so the ball doesn't fly like a shopping cart. So sensitivity now depends on which side of the ball the "contact" happens relative to the sensor. Totally fine basis for ending a nation's tournament.
An IMU measures acceleration. Somewhere in a proprietary pipeline, a threshold decides which acceleration counts as "touch." That threshold is unpublished. The false positive rate is unpublished. The calibration data is unpublished. The patents are literally still in their secrecy window. And FIFA owns the raw data, so nobody can independently audit the trace that ended Modrić's last World Cup.
And we're all supposed to accept a "heartbeat graphic" on the broadcast as if that settles anything.
Since we sadly all know you won't ever admit your crimes or remove this technology for good, at least open source the detection pipeline, @FIFAcom!
Publish the thresholds, the error rates, the raw IMU trace from last night. If the tech is right, transparency costs nothing, right?
The current clubs of this Cape Verde XI:
No club
Columbus Crew
Shamrock Rovers
Al-Bataeh
Trabzonspor
FC Krasnodar
No club
Ludogorets Razgrad
Puskás Akadémia
No club
İstanbul Başakşehir
What we have witnessed tonight against the reigning champions is truly remarkable.
You lying fucking cunt.
Trump denied your fake disaster handout for a February blizzard and now you’re whining New Yorkers have to foot the bill?
Bitch please. You and the Dems blew over $10 BILLION on hotels, healthcare and lawyers for illegal migrants while New Yorkers get screwed.
Snow in NY isn’t new, commie retard.
Handle your own damn mess instead of crying for red state money.
You prioritized invaders over citizens.
Fuck your priorities, fuck your lies and fuck you.
So this microchip is so sensitive it can pick up a piece of hair hitting the ball (which is not offsides according to FIFA rules) so what happens if it’s raining lol
13 - Including five tonight, #USMNT's Weston McKennie has made 13 defensive line-breaking passes at this year's FIFA World Cup, at least four more than any other player.
Through.
That is HIGHWAY robbery there is not a chance in hell that hit off the croatian guys head they just actually got royally robbed by the corrupt var thats the worst one yet by an absolute long shot almost not even debatable
During a heatwave:
🇫🇷Socialists in France blame America
🇬🇧Socialists in the UK ban air-conditioners
🇺🇸Socialists in America mandate 78 degrees
These people are crazy.
Zohran demands all residents in New York City put their thermostat at 78 degrees during the heat wave.
Highest city and state income tax in the WORLD and you can’t even be cool on a hot day.
People vote for this. It’s unreal.