Ronaldo holding Portugal back is sad to see. He’s so selfish that he won’t step down but they can’t win with him in the team #ronaldo #portugal #messi

This is the most embarrassing US military defeat in our history. Completely manhandled by Iran.

How in gods name is Madueke going to the World Cup? He can’t even take a corner!! Foden Palmer and Gibbs-White must be raging watching this! #england #madueke

Teams in Europe next season: • Crystal Palace ✅ • Nottingham Forest ❌

Absolutely buzzing for Jodi Jones. Been absolutely brilliant since he came to Notts County. I’d be shocked if there’s a better player in league two than this guy. Always looks at least one level above everyone on the pitch when I watch him #ncfc #nottscounty

Anyone sympathising with @SouthamptonFC players should watch the example set by their captain, Taylor Harwood-Bellis after defeating @Boro in the play-off semi-final, second leg. Now that’s karma #Championship #Cheats #Pompey

Unpopular opinion but the penalty given away to the Germans in injury time in escape to victory is a nailed on penalty! Don’t know what Ardiles was thinking! Thank god for Stallone

This is a nice reminder for everyone who pretended they’d known about handball rule 2.1b all their lives and anyone who didn’t was an imbecile… Michael Salisbury got it wrong, and so did you.

VAR I enthusiastically welcomed it. Was sold on the higher percentage of right decisions so we could all go home knowing football justice had been done and we could concentrate on which player was crap instead. But I was wrong. Woefully and completely wrong. Waiting 5 minutes for a decision to be made alone means the system isn't fit for purpose. Why? Because I sat with TV producers who said everything would be wrapped up in 10-30 seconds. It has literally taken the spontaneous joy from the most important part of the game. A goal. Then, one thing completely blindsided me and many others. Subjectivity. I thought there would be science and a nailed on guarantee of a successfully and universally accepted decision. How wrong we were. Instead, arbitrary lines are drawn that simply can't with any certainty say whether a player is offside or not. So a human in a portacabin, 200 miles away only does what the referee can do, make a best guess. Likewise handballs, dives, any penalty decision to be honest. A subjective decision decided out of stadium allowing an increasingly small and poor refereeing pool a get out of jail free card. Instead of them making a shit decision and owning it, they just pass it on 200 miles away so 3 men in a portacabin can make a shit decision instead. Lunacy. For the love of the game, let's go back to investing in getting more referees, respecting them so that they join the trade and don't feel constantly abused. In short, treat them like rugby referees. Ultimate respect. Then, fuck VAR off, it's ruined the game, made it petty and chaotic, and taken that one ingredient that you simply can't replace, instantaneous joy. As a player and fan I accepted a referee making a bad decision in a game in the same way I accepted fucking up a shot or pass. We're all human. Let's get back to that, humans doing their best, everyone walks away from the ground accepting that and less unrealistic pressure put on officials to be perfect when perfection doesn't exist in any walk of life. VAR stinks. A system designed to help is a massive hindrance and it's about time pundits, fans, players, referees, clubs put pressure on authorities to get rid of it. We only need goal line tech, the rest can and should be refer refereed by humans making their best judgement. A best judgement that was over 98% right( audited fact pre VAR). Enough is enough, fuck it off.

Scottish football lost today. Celtic could not have won the league without the dodgy VAR decision v Motherwell. Hearts gave their all, defeated the Old Firm five times & Derek McInnes was magnificent. But what chance have non-Old Firm challengers got with such Old Firm biases?

Awful day for the SFA and Scottish football in general. A league title decided by VAR. Hearts not allowed 1000 fans in the ground for title decider. Opposition players attacked by fans at the end. Shame on SFA #celtic #hearts #SFA

This was a culture-changing draft for Miami across the board 😤 @MiamiDolphins | @heykayadams

Another example of @EFL not knowing their arse from their elbow. Not fit for purpose. They seem hell bent on punishing clubs for things that owners (that they allowed by the way) that are no longer involved instead of trying to help them get better.

Who started the war? — TRUMP Who bombed Iran? — TRUMP Who caused the Strait closure? — TRUMP Who fucked economy? — TRUMP Who declares victory? — TRUMP Who took credit for opening Hormuz? — TRUMP Who declares "great day for world"? — TRUMP Elect a clown, expect a circus.

Right then. Let me explain something very slowly, because it appears some basic logic has gone missing somewhere over the Atlantic. No serious nation in the history of warfare has spent fourteen months insulting its allies, threatening to annex their territory, siding with their common enemy, and then knocked on their door expecting them to come running to rescue a catastrophe of its own making. That is not how alliances work. That is not how anything works. You abused the UK. You threatened Canada. You tried to grab Greenland. You called the EU an adversary. You praised Putin, the one man every serious NATO ally has spent decades preparing to fight. You hosted Kremlin officials in the Capitol. You undermined European elections. You abandoned Ukraine. You imposed tariffs on your closest partners. You did all of this loudly, proudly, and on camera. And now you are surprised that nobody is returning your calls. Here is a question worth sitting with. Why do you think that is? Is it possible, just possible, that when you treat your allies like enemies for over a year while cuddling up to their actual enemy, those allies might update their opinion of you? Is that concept too complicated? Does that require more working memory than is currently available? You did not plan this war with your allies. You did not consult them. You did not build a coalition. You started a conflict, watched it go sideways, and then got on your knees asking for help from people you spent fourteen months calling weak, corrupt and irrelevant. NATO is not what it was. Not because Europe changed. Because Washington made crystal clear which side it is on. And it is not ours. You want European boots on the ground? Start by explaining why America is more aligned with Moscow than with Brussels. Take your time. We will wait. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Hey Americans, I might be a know-nothing Brit, but I can't help thinking that arresting your president for raping kids might be a better idea than letting him collapse the global economy and possibly end the world. Just a suggestion.

I’ll save you some time on the Iran address: • It’s Biden’s fault • 48 hours • Two weeks • Some incoherent gibberish • We’ve won • We are way ahead of schedule • It’s a little excursion • We have obliterated them • We’ve knocked out all their ships • I could open up the Strait of Hormuz • Go get your own oil • They gave us a present • NATO are cowards • Something about Nuclear weapons • Allies are useless • We need allies • Nobody’s ever seen anything like it • Fake news • DEMOCRATS • Obama • More gibberish • I know more than the generals • Greatest foreign policy ever Am I missing anything?

Trump says the US is 'leaving soon' and has 'nothing to do' with the Strait. He started a war, lost it, closed the Strait, and now he's pretending it was never his problem. This is what failure looks like

Ben White tracking back for that Japan goal like a man who’s had a long hard season!! Useless lazy prick has hardly played a game all season and looks like he’s towing a caravan!! #white #england #japan #arsenal

BREAKING : 🇺🇸 Trump’s own Senator gave him brutal reality check Trump — We need $2 billion a day to reopen the Strait of Hormuz US Senator — But the SOH was already open before the war? So what was the point of whole war? You have created a Global Crisis OUT OF NOTHING” 🔥🔥🔥