"30 women have been murdered in Northern Ireland in the last six years - not one road was closed, not one protest. What was the connection? They were murdered by white locals."

Incredible "is there somebody you forgot to ask" about all these stories, who is giving us book value for these guys?!

Incredibly BlueCo quote

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

UEFA giving Omar Artan the super cup is one of the better things in their beef with FIFA.

Wolves are genuinely one of the most confusing teams. I thought him bringing them back up was the whole premise of the appointment.

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

the cars don't drive themselves and we're still nowhere near Mars, but you can't question Elon Musk's ability to deliver screwworms and racial violence

Please deny his visa please, just to see what happens

This is going to be controversial, but I think this creates a huge incentive for the PL to find City not guilty or otherwise drop the charges. I think the Chelsea decision kinda already spoke to this with the "wouldn't have breached PSR" finding. All of which is terrible governance ofc.

The Graham Potter makeover is a portent of doom

In 2023, Indonesia were stripped of the under-20 World Cup for refusing to allow the Israeli team entry. Fifa's justification then was the vague "due to the current circumstances". Quite a contrast to the hardline "FIFA is not involved in host immigration processes" now.

absolutely incredible levels by u.s. immigration to unite the world in sympathy for *a referee*

All referees should refuse to officiate at the World Cup until he's reinstated.

I enjoy that "who's that Pokémon" persists as YouTube thumbnails

Very proud to be on the advisory board for this campaign. If of interest, please sign and share. ——— Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. 
And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name to this mass complaint: rebootfifa.com/sign?utm_sou...

The trump regime isn't the outright worst regime to host a world cup but I think it does have the worst attitude to the sport that makes it potentially uniquely disastrous in modern times. It's also another level of weakness from FIFA after already getting bullied by Qatar.

And the shirts say “This is not a jersey” on the back:

Even Americans don't trust PE with their franchises, we should be exploring taking the same position.

Men's football has a real problem with safeguarding around this issue and I don't think it wants to solve it. I don't know what it will take to shift momentum on it.

after complaints from fan groups and national associations, gianni infantino has released the following statement: "fuck y'all bitches, i got me paid"

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

Says here that a Spanish club (Osasuna fit the description) went on a prediction market and bet millions of dollars on themselves to get relegated, but it's cool because they were just hedging

Canada vs Bosnia-Herzogovina in Toronto on Friday will be the first World Cup game in 20 years played in a country the Economist's Democracy Index considers a "full democracy".

Strong possibility Djed Spence's chin strap is Liam Delap's biggest legacy in his career

“so what’s your take?” “the city of New York must pay me $1 million cash in the next hour and I will kill one person for every minute they are late” “100% disagree”

It's nice to know it's not just Behdad Egbahli

If you haven't seen this OG from the Serbia game, it's terrible.

If this was almost any other country arbitrarily denying entry and visas to team staff (and even holding players up for several hours), they would unanimously be considered unfit to host the World Cup. This country has normalised such things for many years, and obviously taken them up a notch lately

It's pretty gracious of him to show up at all, given that his side lost.

“17 year olds watching antisemitic conspiracy theories is unacceptable. 57 year olds watching racist conspiracy theories, however, are hero voters”

According to reports, one of these players *has* to impress the new manager in pre-season (after featuring at the World Cup) in order to stay at Chelsea, and the other just has to declare they want to stay in order to prove their doubters wrong.

Well it was fun while it lasted

Very fitting that the goal of the season was scored in a humiliating home defeat when 80% supporters had already left the stadium.

NoSnoreDraws

I do like the unspoken media convention of "this player isn't very good let's show them pulling faces"

There's a decent chance this will kill someone

Only one Bobby Tambling. Go well. news.sky.com/story/bobby-...

The phrase is "one bad apple SPOILS the barrel" (or bunch), not "it's only one bad apple, don't worry about it."

If we look at all the rumours of players that BlueCo want to keep but have a caveat, I think they just would be happy with all of them sold if they get offers Fernandez Cucurella George Acheampong Lavia Tosin Santos

oh hell yeah this is a good crossover incredibly, Marinakis is roughly the median level of criminal for both a Greek shipping magnate and a football team owner

Everyone was like "wow the Qatar world cup stinks, how can it get any worse" and the US said "actually I can think of some ways"

What I’m seeing is a lot of resellers in fullblown denial. Ain't no one paying four digits to watch Bosnia-Qatar in Seattle. www.stubhub.com/world-cup-se...

Just seen this after a search to find out which clubs are dominating the World Cup (exluding loans).

You have to go back to pre Abramovich from a quick Google. It's even worse when there's more than 50% more players at this tournament with more countries and bigger squads 2026: 11 2022: 15 2018: 14 2014: 17 2010: 13 2006:15 2002: 5

Remember when there was that story about Netflix checking up on the person who watched the Bee movie like 100 times? We're going to need that for any neutral staying up until 3am to watch Algeria Austria