‘Jones is striding through!’
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HopefulPie - JIST retweeted
Worst thing is Notts County are truly awful, lost 4 in a row and are yet playing much better than us.
Terrified football yet again, none of these players has confidence in these tactics I'm sorry.
Persisting with Lowe as the lone striker is suicide. Like hes running in treacle.
HopefulPie - JIST retweeted
To be fair, the blame can be laid at the club, manager and players. Players need to perform, team selections, new strikers that don’t score very many.
HopefulPie - JIST retweeted
Millwall today -
"There were 10 of us and 200 of them and we ran em all over London"
West Ham today -
"There were 10 of us and 200 of them and we ran em all over London"
Reality -
A few fat blokes made fighting gestures at each other and a few chairs were thrown
HopefulPie - JIST retweeted
He is without a doubt our player of the season by far currently.
And he is running alone in that competition and conversation.
An absolute man mountain today, he did not miss a thing.
Gets his head on everything, gets everything that goes across the ground.
Just silly, silly good.
Lucas Ness. 🤍
#Notts
HopefulPie - JIST retweeted
People talk about "honour culture", but there is a very real "no shame" culture that exists outside of the West. Look at how Argentinians act over the Falklands, they genuinely believe having invaded another country and lost, they are somehow the wronged party.
HopefulPie - JIST retweeted
No, we hate them. I want to watch the game and only the game. Like most of the world, I couldn’t give a shit who is there. The celeb watching is a you thing, not an us thing. #FIFAWorldCup #ESPARG
HopefulPie - JIST retweeted
American national anthem before kick off, game not played at night, hydration breaks, dynamic ticket prices, camera panning to celebrities every 25 seconds and a 30 minute HT show still to come
Never let these fucking idiots host it again
HopefulPie - JIST retweeted
This safely goes down as one of the worst World Cups in my lifetime.
Everything has been commercialised, corruption is so blatant that it's insulting to viewers, all while politics and division bleed through the tournament.
The US should never host again #WorldCup2026
HopefulPie - JIST retweeted
A half-time show is an anti-football abomination.
Players have gone through their career used to normal break. That rhythm disrupted, in the biggest game of their careers.
It's of a piece with absurdly high ticket prices and Balogun controversy - Fifa ushering this through.
HopefulPie - JIST retweeted
Com a eliminação da Colômbia, só sobraram dois países sul-americanos pra torcer.
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Worth pointing out that Quansah’s “crime” is the same in FIFA terms as Folarin Balogun’s - serious foul play. Quansah’s one-game ban has been extended to two. Balogun’s was suspended for 12 months when Donald Trump made a phone call.
HopefulPie - JIST retweeted
"who is going to pay for all this free soccer" i swear this must be a brain disease
HopefulPie - JIST retweeted
A lot of discourse on this but it is abundantly clear that too many Americans still have no real concept of Football and what it’s like at any level.
The best football players in the world are much better at football than the best American Footballers are at American Football. And that’s because it’s an extremely accessible sport and the talent pool is orders of magnitude larger and more competitive than any in America.
In America, most kids don’t really start getting involved seriously in sports until high school. Here, there are kids playing youth football for professional teams when they are 6 and 7.
If you aren’t being picked up by a serious team by 12 or 13 at an absolute push then it’s over, you aren’t making it. And the vast, vast majority of kids that are picked up by that age also do not make it either.
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Did the US win many fans during this tournament? No. Did they do the moral thing and denounce Trump’s role in the Balogun saga? No. But did they at least exit the World Cup without embarrassing themselves further? Also no #FIFAWorldCup
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In most cultures, people prefer to win by playing a tournament with the same rules as everyone else. In American culture if the rules get changed to give you a unique advantage you act sanctimonious and talk about how this makes you morally superior
A huge cultural difference between international soccer and American sports cultures. Americans are used to our athletes saying they prefer to beat an opponent at full strength. International soccer culture - the same culture that produces players pretending to be injured - is fine whinging about a guy being suspended for something he didn’t even do to their team.
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Possible corruption and cheating aside, hilarious that the Trump administration were allegedly pushing hard to reinstate a player who is a literal birthright citizen. His pregnant mother gave birth to him on a visit because the airline wouldn’t let her board her return flight.
🚨 Exclusive: The White House made a direct call to FIFA to ask Gianni Infantino to review Folarin Balogun’s red card.
FIFA approached for comment and referred to the findings of its independent committee.
FIFA sources insist White House influence could not affect the decision due to the powers contained in Article 27 and the independent nature of the disciplinary panel.
