World Cup 2026: France reach semifinals; Quansah banned two matches
Jarell Quansah has his red card ban extended to two matches. FIFA will consider an appeal, if the England defender can prove he’s either American or Argentinian or a brown envelope stuffed with cash
karlcorey.bsky.social73“The GOAT” deliberately drives his studs into the leg of an Algerian player. Red card? Nope Yellow card? Nope Foul? Nope Var intervention? Nope
Captain Beefheart’s Trout47The corruption of FIFA has always been there but I don't think it's ever been SO blatant. It's obvious to anyone with a brain that this is tournament is going to be given to Argentina. Money has ruined top-level football, utterly ruined it.
John Crowley44FIFA has tarnished football. Thank goodness the Olympics are safe in the hands of the IOC.
bigcee.bsky.social21Too bad Starmer didn’t get the FIFA peace prize
ilpenseroso.bsky.social21It was a horrible tackle. He deserved to go, and an extension isn’t unreasonable. But this is the consequence of Infantino’s sycophancy - every decision undermined, faith in regulation by the rules destroyed. Thank you, America.
hra42.bsky.social16FIFA is a joke now. The world needs to clean its houses of these frauds like trump that bribe their way around rules. We need to pass a global tax on anyone who has over 500 million. No billionaires should exist while any human goes hungry.
A Norway fan has gone viral for not taking part in their Row celebration after matches and won't do it if they win the World Cup "It’s factually wrong; they didn’t row, they sailed over the Atlantic”
Dexerto629Emil Lappen said it "copies" what Iceland fans started with their thunder clap
Simon370I bet he has strong opinions on the subject of horns on Viking helmets too.
Disney Prime Video + ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ246This man runs our European Pedantry Division. His name is Nils Degråsse-Tøyssen.
Gerhalt185To pedant the pedant, surely they rowed once they were close in to shore, which is also the bit just before they jump out and do Viking stuff
Christian Sporleder71Autism spectrum or stubborn: the eternal Norwegian question
Chris Jones42This is purely a dispute among Norwegians. I'm not going to go sticking my oar in.
shauna451there are millions of this guy and they’re all in my replies
Brent Toderian73In my experience, this is very Norwegian. #GoNorwayGo
50 Plus Döner56Why are people treating him like Rowsa Parks
Tom Reagan’s Hat42🎵Row, row, row your boat, gently d-🎵 ‘THEY DIDN’T ROW! THEY FUCKING SAILED!’ ‘Shh, you’ll wake the baby’ ‘Sorry’
Sam16Me at any sporting event when "the wave" starts.
Gerry McBride13Me back in the day, refusing to be on the dancefloor when Maniac 2000 was playing
Alan Kinsella 12The Keith Mills of Norwegian fans
Karsten Konrad 🇪🇺10I was separated from this man at birth.
Robert (Bob) Kubinec9The annoying guy at the seminar who asks the speaker to explain why they use clustered robust standard errors
Patrick Samphire 🏴9This guy is my new hero.
FIFA has banned England's Jarell Quansah for two games. Meaning he will only be able to play in the Final if England get there. The US striker didn't even get a one match ban for a worse offence. #TwoTierWorldCup
RuelFox9In no universe has Balogun’s offence worse than Quansah’s. Not even close.
Lord Knows5The difference is that the team takes it and moves on in the tournament. The enquiry can come after and this World Cup has undoubtedly been tainted by corruption on a large scale.
Orcaholic 🐳🐬🌿🐈⬛🇵🇸🇺🇦💙🇬🇱🇩🇰⚾️4Is this when the King calls FIFA and “suggests” they review this decision?
Fat Freddie's Cat2He did, but the Orange Pig had it dropped
sjhutton99.bsky.social2Two games seems a bit harsh, but he did go in cleats up so....
James Steel2Yes funny that, one rule for the Americans one rule for the rest of us. Thank fuck they were so rubbish and got totally humiliated by Belgium.
For the first time at the 2026 World Cup, Spain have conceded a goal 😳
Mark Copelovitch96Spain once again finding unexpected difficulties in the Low Countries
sargent.major 🔴🏆⚫️2(I didn’t see the goal but it’s the first time I’ve been able to say it this tournament so) hmm. Raya would have saved that.
MSJ | Student | DFW2But only one team held Spain scoreless
Dear Team USA, this is how to accept a red card. “But the decision's been made - we won't waste any more energy on it.” www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
almightytallest.bsky.social1Absolutely. It sucks, and I'm not happy to see it, but I'm not gonna bitch about how it should be reversed. Sometimes the decisions go your way, sometimes they don't. That's football.
sparta47.bsky.social1If we could just give Trump a red card! I am starting to like soccer because of the red card! Take the card and go to the lockers!
5 of the top 8 ranked teams in the world have reached the quarter finals of the World Cup. The three teams that didn't are all managed by ex-Everton managers.
Chris - drummer2Surely on the odds of statistical probability ALL the teams must have managers that were once managers of Forest?!? 😆
Warren Pilkington1There is also still potential for the top 4 ranked teams in the world to all be in the semi finals of the World Cup. Based on the rankings at the start of the tournament, France (3) could play Spain (2) and Argentina (1) could play England (4). Of course, Erling Haaland might see about that..
Badger50001This is a magnificent fact
waltydunlop3That... is a quite remarkable fact.
🚨 FA made strong representation to FIFA that VAR process wrongly followed on Quansah red card. Cited referee viewing still image 1st when should be real time replay. Request for mitigation not accepted. Rules state two-game ban + no appeal 🚨 @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...
mji29.bsky.social15Makes the USA suspended one match ban look even worse.
Frasinho73048What’s worse is the people still bothering to watch this corrupt nonsense. Turn it off, read a book, listen to music. All the while u pay it attention you are kneeling to their corruption.
bd1969.bsky.social6Get King Charlie on the blower.
Shooting Stars3Get Count Binface to call up Infantino
SciGuy171We already know Argentina will be handed the cup. Why does anyone care about rest of these matches?
duffmid.bsky.social1Should be additional punishment for having the gall to appeal a disgusting tackle like that
Murshed Zaheed8Guess Starmer didn't make the call. #WorldCup
Bassman7Just from an optics perspective FIFA would've saved some face if they'd just done the same. Being so blatant that it's a trump favour is just doubling down
Ｒ. Ｊ. ＭＡＣＲＥＡＤＹ3When the application of the rules at the highest level—and most public stage—are so clearly bent to meet the political machinations of FIFA's president, what cause for confidence does anyone have in the integrity of the game at any tier below it?
Caio Bitencourt3Faltou consultar o Rei Charles
Shane2Let’s not drag ourselves down to their level. It was a red all day long and he’ll not be missed anyway. Save the complaining in case we need it for someone important.
Alwayne752Should have just said we didn’t know what a red card was and we want our best player on the pitch.
really funny that fifa won't let spain play anything except habsburg derbies this world cup
phantasmAgaric 🍄5even their opening game against cape verde counts lol
•pisscauldron•2habsburg derbies is such a delightful phrase
Surplus Cornbread1They have the reunite the empire of Charles V before they're allowed to get revenge on the guys who kicked the asses of the senior branch of the house of Bourbon (twice)