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FIFA 2026 WC - general

Infantino is more corrupt than any head of FIFA there has ever been. That man does not care about football one bit, and he is ready to sell the fans and the game if it means he gets money in his pocket.

The amount of air travel he has racked up this world cup, man is doing his fair share to harm the planet. He is a right ole cunt
 
derider said:
What is wrong with you? It wasn’t unfair in any way. It was a clear red that would be given in any league with VAR in the world.

And justice has been served??? This is as obvious a case of corruption as you can get. It’s outrageous.
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I've been reading most people thought the red card was way too harsh.
 
The US federation have been involved too. To think the President just phoned through and said get it done is ridiculous.
 
JS96 said:
The US federation have been involved too. To think the President just phoned through and said get it done is ridiculous.
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I mean OK, if you want to take Infantino’s side and claim this is somehow a normal reversal, I’m not gonna stop you. That’s certainly a…take. I suppose even FIFA needs defenders.

Personally, I’m a Belgian tomorrow. I’ll be cheering for them like it’s the Socceroos.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
Yeah looking at their defensive record it’s not terrible but they score far too few goals. They’re among the best defensive sides in the league but also one of the worst attacking sides (behind only Corinthians and the bottom two, Chapecoense and Mirassol). That being said it looks like everyone but Flamengo and Palmeiras are pretty unbalanced on goal difference.

I see you have a Palmeiras profile pic. Do you know much about the Brazilian leagues? If so we’d love to have you here, we lack a fair bit of knowledge about South American leagues.
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Not as much as I should. Life takes over and well things fall by the wayside. I've been back watching for the last 8 years. Palmeiras is the club my mum has been a lifelong supporter which made me a lifelong fan much to the old man's ire (Aris fan through and through). Brazilian A and B are entertaining C and D not so much.

I've advocated for our youth to look at South American leagues for career progression as they ALL practice the dark arts, a skill which is sorely lacking in all Australian players.

It is physical, much like Aus league (Paraguayan, Peru 2 and Colombia 2 immediately spring to mind. The technical level in all the top leagues is very good quality for the money clubs spend. All round, a season or two in any of the leagues would do any of our youngsters the world of good. Only problem is monetary and payment for services. That said it has been noted that Australians have had troubled monetary relations with European clubs and Asian clubs (Ali Abbas at Pohang springs to mind).

The added bonus for me is that most of the games are in business hours and are in general easy to "in match" hedge bet.
 
JS96 said:
I've been reading most people thought the red card was way too harsh.
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We’re watching the Americanisation of football in real time. If it happened to any other country, it would be an entirely uncontroversial red card. But I guess that’s soft now. If you wanna play a manly sport, you should expect to get away with smashing people’s ankles with your studs as long as you didn’t really mean it.

I feel like I’m in some bizarro world. I see people who should know better arguing that it wasn’t a red because he didn’t mean to stomp on the ankle. Intent was never a pre-requisite for red cards though. It’s not in the rules. The action just needs to be dangerous and/or reckless, which this one clearly was.
 
I think it safe to assume there will be no penalties being awarded to Belgium.

Makes total sense of the ignored handball when Irankunda was pushed away while jumping for the ball in the goal mouth.

The home team must win...

Retrospective papers have already been drafted to expel each individual player in Belgium's squad. There are also results of failed drug tests being prepared as we speak, Should Belgium score a winning goal, the papers will show that the player was expelled before the game and Belgium played them illegally. Team disqualified and US to progress.

At least North Korea had the decency to tell their people they had beaten Brazil in the World Cup again without actually making it happen.

Fuck me dead I am so angry with how the US has interfered with this World Cup.

They break the world then they break the world game.
 
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JS96 said:
I've been reading most people thought the red card was way too harsh.
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They haven't rescinded it - they have just suspended the suspension for a year.

So they still think it was a legitimately awarded card but it doesn't apply for 12 months.

That process doesn't reek to you regardless of what you think about issuing the card in the first place?
 
derider said:
I can’t see any debates. He nearly snapped the guy’s ankle in half by landing on it with his studs. In what world is that not dangerous and/or reckless play? It’s such an easy red that I can’t believe there’s even any discussion.

The subsequent corruption is just out of this world. They don’t even bother to hide it anymore.
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I initially felt it was a just decision due to the silliness of the way he went in but then so many people started saying it was a bad call.

The corruption is so blatant but who's going to boycott?
 
RIMB said:
They haven't rescinded it - they have just suspended the suspension for a year.

So they still think it was a legitimately awarded card but it doesn't apply for 12 months.

That process doesn't reek to you regardless of what you think about issuing the card in the first place?
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That's the wording I've seen in the article now which wasn't explicit in every headline.

There was a list of other pre tournament suspensions also given a delayed penalty. It's ridiculous such things exist.
 
derider said:
We’re watching the Americanisation of football in real time. If it happened to any other country, it would be an entirely uncontroversial red card. But I guess that’s soft now. If you wanna play a manly sport, you should expect to get away with smashing people’s ankles with your studs as long as you didn’t really mean it.

I feel like I’m in some bizarro world. I see people who should know better arguing that it wasn’t a red because he didn’t mean to stomp on the ankle. Intent was never a pre-requisite for red cards though. It’s not in the rules. The action just needs to be dangerous and/or reckless, which this one clearly was.
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That's what I said. I thought it was a negligent challenge. All the social chatter I've seen was the opposite. People wanted a dig at the officials and VAR. Now they're glad to flip it to the political side of things.
 
Punchanello said:
This is my opinion too. The real issue is the god-awful stench of political interference in the age of the orange pedo. What's left of the sanctity of the game needs to come first.
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derider said:
I can’t see any debates. He nearly snapped the guy’s ankle in half by landing on it with his studs. In what world is that not dangerous and/or reckless play? It’s such an easy red that I can’t believe there’s even any discussion.

The subsequent corruption is just out of this world. They don’t even bother to hide it anymore.
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JS96 said:
That's what I said. I thought it was a negligent challenge. All the social chatter I've seen was the opposite. People wanted a dig at the officials and VAR. Now they're glad to flip it to the political side of things.
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I mean... yeah, it's a short debate to me. I'm giving it a red too. But I can see that it's definitely in that 'orange card' territory.
It's how the suspension is being handled afterwards that's the issue. Which leads me to this (which I may have addressed earlier):
JS96 said:
There was a list of other pre tournament suspensions also given a delayed penalty. It's ridiculous such things exist.
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Even this I've been now sort of ok with, on one single crux (and I'm going to use Ronaldo as the example here): He at least served the mandatory one-match suspension. When the disciplinary committee - no matter how it's come about - sets the precedent of that suspension being waived for something that has not been seen as a clear and obvious error (and that will never happen, because doing so means they have to admit a failure in implementing VAR), then it opens up a whole can of worms. If Belgium's appeal is not immediately successful, I would expect the English FA to be putting in similar requests for Quansah to be available against Norway.
 
Pasquali said:
www.uefa.com

UEFA statement on the Balogun case

Statement on decision related to Folarin Balogun
www.uefa.com
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Oh here come the white knights with their own corruption and fuckery. UEFA Euros is the real football tournament as the rest of the world riff raff isn't there.

The euros are great and then after 4 days the dull okay and results kick in.

Maybe FIFA members need to leave and create their own separate world championship.
 
NicCarBel said:
I mean... yeah, it's a short debate to me. I'm giving it a red too. But I can see that it's definitely in that 'orange card' territory.
It's how the suspension is being handled afterwards that's the issue. Which leads me to this (which I may have addressed earlier):

Even this I've been now sort of ok with, on one single crux (and I'm going to use Ronaldo as the example here): He at least served the mandatory one-match suspension. When the disciplinary committee - no matter how it's come about - sets the precedent of that suspension being waived for something that has not been seen as a clear and obvious error (and that will never happen, because doing so means they have to admit a failure in implementing VAR), then it opens up a whole can of worms. If Belgium's appeal is not immediately successful, I would expect the English FA to be putting in similar requests for Quansah to be available against Norway.
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I know I'm repeating myself but initially I thought it was a bad negligent foul and that's what you get. Lots on socials were the opposite. Now the politics are in suddenly it was the most just red card ever and can't r be suspended.

I'm aware each individual action can be viewed separately for its own and the meddling isn't good at all.
 
New reports Belgium now have right of appeal.

I haven't seen a sport back and forth since the Cool Runnings team were disqualified.
 
So such behaviour goes against FIFA's own charter, every FA charter, every sponsor's charter and all public broadcasters who show the matches. Who's going to step out first? Oh right, money!

There's got to be something in each organisation saying it's mandatory they deal with organisations who uphold integrity. Anyone being involved with FIFA is therefore noncompliant.
 
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