Slop.

Very on-brand for Americans to come into a realm they normally pay little attention to and immediately start condescendingly talking down to everyone about it like they’re suddenly an expert.

The US supports Israel to the hilt, is starving Cuba and is threatening to exterminate Iranian civilization. If you're cheering for them at the World Cup, it's the equivalent of a German cheering for their country at the 1936 olympics.

Red card does not require malice what the fuck is he talking about

Thats not how it fucking works. You can't oopsie-daisy out of a red card

Cenk genuinely thinks that the difference between a yellow card and a red card in football is the same as the difference between manslaughter and murder in the burger legal system because that's how bad his Dick Wolf-induced brain rot is.

yup I consulted the rules based international football order charter and it says studs to leg are ok if no malice detected

Wasn't Cenk vocally "concerned" about trans athletes? I'm not really a sports guy, and haven't watched even an instant of these Olympics, but any consideration on his opinion re: unfair advantages in sports begins and ends with his shit views of trans athletes.

It's fine when it benefits us!

The rallying cry of the dastard

Here's some nice cope (in lack of a better word) from the post-match belgium thread

I'm going to be very deep lol and ask is it even possible to have fair sporting competition under capitalism. I used to enjoy cricket but the advantage the financially well off countries have over the poor countries has made the sport essentially a dead/dying sport. Despite the governing bodies surprisingly forward thinking approach (with one exception) to growing the sport.

If anyone cares about the one exception (you probably shouldn't tbh lol), this was the popularization of a new shorter format of the sport that quickly dominated the game while reducing the skill level of the players. At the same time every country started holding leagues inviting international players to join while paying much more than regular cricket. Now players getting more money is fine but it basically rolled the soul out of the game because the longer and more challenging and skillful forms of the game are played a lot less.

wasn't a red, bans should be reviewable/reversable, clear precedent for review/reversal of ban, the best players should play, winners should be decided on the field, belgium has no standing to complain as it wasn't the party harmed by the foul, trump is obviously simply declaring himself the proximate cause of the reversal for clout, no substantive difference between trump appealing to officials or Belgium's counter appeal

soccer fans say they like soccer but seem to hate when it's played. hopefully for them soon the entire match will be subsumed by VAR, and all momentum and moments of beauty are extinguished in favor of AI surveillance, a regime of inhuman technicalities.

He wants to pander to the right so bad.

I don't keep up with soccer/football(black and white ball game). What does a red card? What's the whole deal with this?

Honestly both the red card and the overturn were a mistake. VAR was used incorrectly in the red card. There’s also the fact that there wasn’t this level of anger when a very similar happened to Ronaldo. Also, Kkkeir SStarmer called FIFA yesterday to try and keep them from changing the kickoff time of the Mexico England game. Fuck Trump, fuck FIFA, fuck the US, but this situation is really shitty. I feel for the players, especially Balogun who didn’t ask for any of this and handled the original red card maturely. Also fuck Belgium, trying to take some moral high ground when this match is turbo hitler particle charged

.....i really have to root for belgium? :vomit-emoji:

Per that last xeet, what was revealed about insider trading?

I was thinking I should bet some money on the US winning the world cup, since it is the only way it could be made worse and FIFA is corrupt as fuck.

Yes I am still sore about the european championship Denmark was robbed of during covid. That judge was biased as fuck. THERE WAS A BALL ON THE FIELD

Sports are just natioanlistic bread and circuses who gives a fuck what happens in them anyway. Omnis delenda est.