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  1. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    FIFA: Destroying Football Since 1904

    Ok it’s separate, but that’s not what I’m saying. I’m not saying I like it (in fact I’m saying I don’t!!!) I’m saying that in Trump’s mind, it’s very likely he would not have called Infantino if most reasonable people accepted it was a red card.
  2. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    FIFA: Destroying Football Since 1904

    I don’t think I do. I don’t think his advisors would have been brought this incident to his attention if it was a cut and dry bad tackle. I live in America. And most people I know, plenty who are not Trump fans, thought it was a very unfair red card and are delighted that Balogun can play. If...
  3. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    FIFA: Destroying Football Since 1904

    And he’s supposed to make that calculation in less than a second. Knowing exactly what the Bosnia player will do? It’s not a reasonable standard to hold. It’s a contact sport, and sometimes bad things happen.
  4. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    FIFA: Destroying Football Since 1904

    Sure, but my point was that Trump wouldn’t have even done so, or thought it worth expending the political capital to do it, if he didn’t think he could win, and if he didn’t think most Americans would agree with him. VAR gave him that opportunity, is my point. Trump isn’t going to make the call...
  5. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    FIFA: Destroying Football Since 1904

    It’s a tackle, they were tangled up together, the Bosnia player was sticking his own foot in to win the ball. The only way to be not out of control by your definition is just to let the Bosnia player have it.
  6. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    FIFA: Destroying Football Since 1904

    Well that’s my whole issue and we can agree to disagree on that. If you’re only looking at the freeze frame then yes it’s terrible. But if you look at it in real time it’s just two players fighting for the ball, in a contact sport, and something unfortunate happened. That’s my view. I don’t see...
  7. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    FIFA: Destroying Football Since 1904

    It seemed worth a comment though? And it seemed worth cutting out the rest of my post (and posts, which make my context of the debate here clear) to highlight something in particular?
  8. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    FIFA: Destroying Football Since 1904

    Balogun simply isn’t ’out of control’ in any sense of the word. He’s trying to get in front of the Bosnia player to hold up the ball. The Bosnia player is trying to get there first. They were both committed. It’s unfortunate and will have hurt. But that is literally football. Quansah put...
  9. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    FIFA: Destroying Football Since 1904

    I totally agree with your general point, and that’s why I can see that Quansah’s is a red that wouldn’t be overturned. What else could Balogun have done though? 1. This is a contact sport and they were fighting for the ball. 2. The Bosnia player comes into the back of him. The action basically...
  10. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    FIFA: Destroying Football Since 1904

    Sorry, care to expand?
  11. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    FIFA: Destroying Football Since 1904

    I’ve just watched the Balogun moment again…it literally all happened in maybe less than 2 seconds…and yet on VAR it’s made to look like he deliberately stamps his foot in once he realises he has the opportunity to do it. It happens so quickly, and he cannot do anything else. We need common...
  12. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    FIFA: Destroying Football Since 1904

    I think it hasn’t been rescinded because FIFA doesn’t have a process for that at this tournament. I am unsure why. But they chose this article 27 thing because it gives them legal cover. Rescinding the card would have left them open. Balogun did step on someone else’s heel. It’s really...
  13. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    FIFA: Destroying Football Since 1904

    Maybe this will be the wake up call that the game needs to stop allowing completely dumb VAR controversies to happen. They have the technology, and they have all the time they need to make sure that they get decisions right, and apply the rules consistently. These refs and VARs keep failing to...
  14. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    World Cup 2026: Mexico, USA and Canada

    I don’t know why, but I just didn’t think we’d lose. Before the game and during, I just believed we were winning that game. I look at this tournament and the only team I can see being a coin flip against England is France. Everyone else I think England will eventually beat physically or...
  15. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    FIFA: Destroying Football Since 1904

    I do agree. And I’m sure there’s some second order impact that I’m not fully thinking of right now that makes this a dangerous road to go down. Right now though I’m just happy that the right outcome has happened. Slowing an action down to a frame by frame demonstration to create the condition to...
  16. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    FIFA: Destroying Football Since 1904

    They should feel undermined. It was a ridiculous decision. I’m tired of people that have all the technology and all the time to get decisions right and drive consistency just continue to get it wrong. I don’t agree with how this has all gone down. But I’m happy with the outcome.
  17. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    FIFA: Destroying Football Since 1904

    I agree, there should have been an appeals process. And there also should have been better referees to not, with minutes to review this, judge it to be a red in the first place. If this was Ronaldo’s elbow, I’d agree. I also think the fact that they didn’t send Messi off is ridiculous, because...
  18. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    FIFA: Destroying Football Since 1904

    I don’t think it makes a mockery of the integrity of the WC anymore than terrible application of VAR does. The US is going to be able to play their striker as they deserve to. It would have been unfair on the US to be knocked out for having to play with ten men for it. If Balogun elbowed the...
  19. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    FIFA: Destroying Football Since 1904

    Yeah.,,I think it’s lame for Bosnia, Belgium and anyone else to cry corruption. It was never a red in the first place and the right outcome has been arrived at. I do agree that it feels grubby, but ultimately my main criticism is for the VAR and on pitch ref that decide to completely misuse...
  20. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

    Yeah that’s it for me. Once the stadium was opened there is actually zero reason why we couldn’t be doing what Arsenal and Liverpool have done.
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