Opposition parties should put leaflets through every door in Clacton spelling out what the council will now not be able to afford to do because their MP needlessly triggered a by-election.

He’s joining FIFA

Jennrick v Bravermen leadership battle then? #Reform

I believe in my day we called this “goal hanging”

Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.

Clearly never intending to get a job back in Europe

Donald Trump has no shame, but Folarin Balogun is a class act. He spoke to Belgian head coach, Rudi Garcia, after the match. Garcia said of Balogun "He came to talk to me. I really liked that. It is not his fault. He is not the one to blame. That's what I told him." H/T @resistrebelrevolt.net

Always liked Lukaku 😀😀😀. Top shithousery #worldcup

That is pretty good trolling

Sad Ronaldo. 😊

No one has any right to expect restraint, leadership and eloquence from young men who just happen to be extremely good at football but it's striking how often some of them deliver it.

FIFA headquarters are in Switzerland the Swiss FA have come out against FIFA's decision.

Mbappe fires back at the racist Paraguayan senator who said he grew up with chimpanzees

However, the African and Asian confederations have already unanimously voted to give Infantino their delegate votes for his 2027 re-election. He only needs another 9 from the rest of the world. UEFA's only weapon is that they generate 75%+ of world revenue.

See, it’s easy to do this…

But their own rules state this decision wasn’t appealable.

Evergreen.

Being told you’re corrupt by UEFA and Sepp Blatter is like being told you have a few mad ideas by Liz Truss.

Karma

Kind of want to stay up to 1am to watch Belgium dick the US.

NORWEIGHING IN

Zohran: confirmed ball knower

Well done Bosnia. bsky.app/profile/mich...

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I entirely agree. There are very good reasons why you make rules in advance and then follow them, rather than making up a process on the fly. Nobody is better off because of this, even Balogun, who will be booed on every non-US ground he ever plays on.

I don’t imagine for a minute anyone actually asked Balogun if he wanted the decision appealed?

UEFA: "We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision" FIFA and Infantino's brazen corruption has made a complete mockery of the best sporting competition in the world Absolutely shamelessly pathetic

What kind of sociopath has EVER looked at a PDF document and said to themselves, "This could be a podcast?"

If Sepp fucking Blatter is saying that’s a corruption too far, you really are in trouble.

FIFA recently suspended Nepal due to external political interference, btw. digitalhub.fifa.com/asset/9a4186... kathmandupost.com/football/202...

So to be clear: 1) Belgian FA said "err... you what? can you clarify how this complies with your own rules here we brought you a copy." 2) FIFA went OH SHIT. OH SHIT. Declared that the Belgian appeal. Ruled it invalid. Told the Belgian FA they couldn't appeal again pls be quiet. 3) Belgian FA went:

Of all the counties for FiFA to start a bureaucratic war with, Belgium was not the one.

"This is a matter for FIFA" 🤡

Unbelievable. In a game he played zero minutes in, Jordan Henderson got himself a yellow card and then needed to be stretchered off after injuring himself falling over the advertising board while singing #Wonderwall #MexEng *Just after the 55 second mark

This does seem plausible.

Have tried to distill the second half into one image

Phew.

This is killing me.

England red card.. So does the king call fifa now? Is that how this works?

If there was ever a moment for Big Dan Burn, this is it.

If that’s a pen the game’s gone.

"I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is Mexico-England!"

Harry!

This game is bonkers

Balls.

I do not need to be this hyped at 3 in the morning.

Oh my!