Other Games - 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup Edition (+ warm-up matches): Villa-watch

[devilla]

Portugal players training to win penalties

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8U_QMZobw6M

Brilliant! I really hope Spain give them a right seeing to tonight.

[Somniloquism]

You can only see Spain or France in the final from that side of the draw, although we can't discount Donaldtino's combined meddling to help the US as much as possible.

[Somniloquism]

Even Sepp Blatter thinks suspending the red card is a step too far.

"Red cards are not overturned by political phone calls," Blatter wrote on X on Monday morning., external

"They are overturned by rules, evidence and independent bodies.

"If a US President intervenes with the Fifa president - and a player is suddenly cleared before a World Cup knockout match - the question is unavoidable: Quo vadis [where are you going], Fifa?

"Football must never become a playground for political power."

[Pete3206]

Bloody hell, if even Blatter's having a word, you're definitely in the dark arts territory.

[olaftab]

If Blatter quacks then it's a duck.

[Dogtanian]

But the big issue is that it hasn't been overturned. If it was deemed not a red, there are rules in place to appeal and overturn them. But instead, something else unprecedented happened, where the red still stands as correct, but the punishment has been removed.

That is not right and proper.