07 Jul 2026 03:55:14
Questionable FIFA decisions
1. The last 2 games of Ronaldo's 3 game ban suspended allowing him to play in the first 2 World Cup games.
2. Balogan's one game ban suspended for the game v Belgium.
3. Inter Miami - invited to play in the World Club Championship when they were not MLS champions.
4. A FIFA Peace Prize to the war maker.
All terrible precedent setting decisions that reveals the total corruption at the top. One law for the rich, and one for the poor.
Remember the 1999 UEFA Cup final when we had both Scholes and Keane suspended (although Keane was injured too). We won. Not so Portugal and the US. Bad karma.
Why wouldn't any team sue FIFA to get players reinstated now? What's the point of having VAR and then a review by the referee if decisions are going to be overruled and the rules bent subsequently for what looks like financial or political reasons?
07 Jul 2026 06:41:03
Same old FIFA. Reminds me of when South Korea were co-hosts and FIFA did everything they could to get them to the final.
07 Jul 2026 09:57:14
It's shameful, but Infantino knows he will get re-elected by Africa and Asia, so he does what he wants. So many major sports are run by rank amateurs, with little consequence for how they perform.
Europe and South America are the football superpowers, but Blatter and Infantino realised that you can bypass them to get elected.
The fawning to the USA has been nauseating, hydration breaks, the half-time show we will be enduring, overturning the red card, just awful.
07 Jul 2026 11:55:13
Football is slowly moving away from being a competitive sport to sports entertainment. There appears to be a real drive to make money, and they wrap this around "growing the game". Infantino and Blatter both came from football administration backgrounds, and not within the competitive game.
The sad thing is, the game would have continued to grow organically, whilst maintaining its competitive credibility, but this now seems to have been lost.
07 Jul 2026 12:16:36
An incredibly corrupt institution.