What football could look like if governing bodies were democratically controlled and accountable.

Note to everyone outside the US: stay tf away from Chat GTP … and any other US AI product.

The NFF is an oddity in world football: it is a genuinely democratic emanation of its football. Should those motions be passed (which is likely), its president Lise Klaveness will be duty-bound to espouse them and confront Fifa - as she has done before. More NFFs = no Infantino, simple as that.

The US and Israel are bombing Iran. Anyone reporting it as “preventive” is engaging in propaganda, by definition. There is no interpretation of what’s happening as anything else than a crime. You don’t have to like the Iranian regime to understand why this is bad.

It's the annual congress of the Norwegian Football Federation today. One of the motions on the agenda relates to discontinuation of the FIFA Peace Prize and another addresses the case for Israel's suspension from international football.

So much love and solidarity with the people of Iran

Wow these experts are really onto something

They all thought we were a small-minded racist little backwater who'd bow down to their hateful rhetoric with little effort on their part. They expect a fight in Brighton Pavilion, they never thought they'd have to fight in Gorton. They were so wrong.

It's ten years to the day since Gianni Infantino was elected FIFA President. He has turned FIFA from merely a bad actor into a profoundly dangerous one. A rogue President of a dysfunctional organisation.

You can also read the text in English here: www.bundesliga.com/en/bundeslig... - maybe the best thing about this is exactly how specfic he gets about both the nature of and the solution to the problem.

There's only two reasons Fifa would launch its own crypto (and they are not mutually exclusive): 1. To enable and disguise the payment of bribes. 2. To rinse fans of more money by lying to them that it's an investment or by making access to ticket contingent on having bought the crypto.

Feels to me like someone ought to have written a book about what happened when football embraced crypto the first time round - the fraud, negligence, money laundering - and released it some time ago to avoid these problems happening again. news.sky.com/video/infant...

"Infantino, who flew into Miami on a Qatari private jet earlier this week, also spent time in the Trump orbit on Thursday, where he was an attendee at a Board of Peace event hosted by the U.S. president." Quite a sentence from @adamcrafton.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/705...

Typically informed, articulate and principled from Richie Sadlier on the question of Ireland's match with Israel. Joins Brian Kerr and Stephen Bradley in taking a clear stance on the matter. Remember: Irish football isin this situation because UEFA refuses to apply its statutory rules to Israel.

In Marseille the candidate of the so called centre right echoing the Vichy France slogan while in Lyon their candidate is suggesting the Town Hall be bedecked with a giant image of the far right activist recently killed in the city. La France va très mal.

One can infer from this video that @fairsq.bsky.social complaint to FIFA's ethics committee about Infantino's repeated breaches of rules on political neutrality is not being taken particularly seriously.

“I am somebody” shaped how millions of us saw ourselves as kids, including me. That message mattered. It still does. Rest in power, Jesse Jackson 🙏🏽

Every article about Elon Musk should reference the fact that he is a leading funder and promoter of white supremacy and trans eliminationism.

Another triumph for Goodwin's campaign. No doubt he'll continue to pretend he cares about anti-semitism. www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...

Starmer needs to commission an independent inquiry into Labour Together- or he too becomes implicated in an increasingly unsustainable cover-up New by me in @theguardian.com on why PM needs to act on Labour Together hiring a PR firm to smear journalists www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wow.

NEW from @tbij.bsky.social: The government has rejected calls by its OWN independent Migration Advisory Committee for visa reforms to protect migrant farm workers from exploitation Labour seems wedded to a model of immigration based on creating a subclass of exploited worker. It's sick.

I’m not normally that person but…. It’s really annoying that Democracy for Sale a has hardly been credited anywhere in last 24 hours for breaking story of Labour Together paying to spy on journalists *almost two weeks* ago Hadn’t expected Tory press office to be the exception!

This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors. youtu.be/uoU9Img_B40

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Two Rice University undergrads (freshmen!) built a digital mapping tool to track ICE activity. Students are OK. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

A very good evening to whoever organised this billboard outside of Old Trafford.

The gulf between English and Scottish education is continuing to grow and I don't think I've ever been so glad for devolution than right now. What is happening in English schools is horrifying. Kids will die due to this - and all to appease a hateful mob that can never, ever, be appeased.

Oh wow our @38degrees.bsky.social petition to cap political donations in the UK has over 94k signatures!! 💥 There's still lots of time for amendments to Elections Bill. Would be so powerful to get it over 100k Can you help? Please sign and share! Thanks! 😀 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

Manchester City and Manchester United are now run by people aiding the rise of the far-right in the UK. We need to talk about billionaires but we also need to talk again about who we allow to run our football clubs www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...

Jim Ratcliffe's hiring of Morgan McSweeney already backfiring. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Manchester City and Manchester United are now run by people aiding the rise of the far-right in the UK. We need to talk about billionaires but we also need to talk again about who we allow to run our football clubs www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...

❗ICE agents will form a “key part” of the security at the 2026 men’s World Cup. “ICE, specifically homeland security investigations, is a key part of the overall security apparatus for the World Cup,” said Todd Lyons, ICE’s acting director. By @colinmillar.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/703...

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

When Texas lawmakers tried to visit 33-year-old “political prisoner” Leqaa Kordia at an ICE facility, she’d already lost 50 pounds and was running a high fever. By Friday, she was hospitalized. But her family still has not been able to locate her. thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/09/l...

"The uncomfortable truth is that Infantino seems unwilling to risk his personal relationship with Trump by publicly criticizing policies that fundamentally contradict FIFA’s stated mission." Excellent from Rasoul Rahmani on @antoineduval.bsky.social's sports law Blog www.asser.nl/SportsLaw/Bl...

🚨🚨" Some leaders have chosen to hunt them down and deport them through operations that are both unlawful and cruel. My government has chosen a different way: a fast and simple path to regularize their immigration status." Spanish PM Pedro #Sanchez on why #migrants are essential for Western society:

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

I deleted my post from before… I thought it was fake So I went to WH Smith and here it is An unbelievable attempt to sanitise this man and normalise what’s he’s done.

I had to check the date on this three times ‘At home with Peter Mandelson’ in Times magazine *today* This is how we cover corruption in Britain? Seriously??

Those crazy Spaniards. Imagine treating people who have left their families and risked their lives in search of a better life like humans and integrating them into society. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

the guy who financed a propaganda film about the nazi first lady is killing a newspaper that writes unfavorably about her and her husband. this is how the club works.

If Mandelson is being investigated for his Epstein connections, he must also be investigated for his Thiel connections, because they ran a joint fund when Mandelson fixed Starmer's visit to Palantir bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...

Good to see Guardiola address Sudan and Ukraine in his advocacy on Palestine. Let's hope he's got a good response prepared for the next question that comes his way.

“Shakir said that his experience illustrated that while public opinion has evolved on Israel in the last several years – with “concepts of apartheid, genocide and ethnic cleansing” increasingly voiced in mainstream circles – the right of return remains a third rail.”

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A lot going on here and all ugly, but one thing I still can't get my head around is how any British government can do business with Thiel at this point.

More than a year after the Nov 2024 ceasefire, there are still 64,000 internally displaced people in Lebanon, according to the IOM. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

So Trump came up when I was debating with Andrea Jenkyns of Reform… And unbelievably she almost walked off the show.

The Peter Thiel connections to Epstein, Ehud Barak, Palantir and...of course....JD Vance should get more scrutiny. Thiel created Vance and essentially hand delivered him to the White House. Thiel is a white nationalist billionaire, part of the "Pay Pal" mafia. Buddy David Sacks is Trump's AI Czar