The duality of the World Cup: it's the greatest of sports rushes and then when it's over, the players return to their clubs with injuries that got worse in their monomaniacal desire to play for their countries. sports.yahoo.com/articles/han...
Hansi Flick ‘loses trust’ in Barcelona captain after key incident; relationship ‘completely broken’
Frenkie de Jong’s future at Barcelona has become a major talking point after fresh reports suggested the midfielder’s relationship with head coach Hansi Flick has deteriorated behind the scenes.Ac...
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Mentioned previously to my three followers, but case and point: my mom watched at least 2/3 of all world cup matches. We had daily text chains and frequent phone calls to discuss this or that game, player, etc.
Channel 6@channel6.bsky.social · 2w ago✨THING ONE✨ Top Whatever, final World Cup rankings edition: channel-6.ghost.io/the-top-what...
The Cryptkeeper on commentary: PAIN have SCARED a GHOUL against SCARGENTINA
Yes. I’ve seen the Brakrooms meme.
Going to 10 men has predictably killed the Swiss press. It was a really impressive effort by them until that point.
Over in Peacedog land, the most pleasant part of this WC has been my mother getting so invested in the tournament. Yes, this has lead to six separate discussions about offsides. No, she still does not fully understand it. She's always only been interested in soccer insofar as I have played it.
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@edsbs.bsky.social In a thread which includes some people crashing out about the Balogon ban suspension, and also calling for the big Euro nations to boycott, I knew you would appreciate this deep cut:
Joe Friday I'm In Love@ultramod2.bsky.social · last mo.Italy is already boycotting, out of deep principle.
1/ I looked at 20 years of Supreme Court decisions and found that for the first time, all nine justices decided more cases by secret ballot — aka the “shadow docket” — than it did for cases argued in open court last term. 🧵:
Harry Kane looks like he's going to keep playing for another 10 years easy.
This World Cup is the Super Bowl for the "I have persistent depressive disorder and it's racist that you don't all have persistent depressive disorder too" wing of Bluesky
@bravesandbirds.bsky.social Just texted me that since 2002, Brazil have gone out in knockouts to the first European team they have faced every time. 2004: 0-1 France 2010: 1-2 Netherlands 2014: 1-7 Germany at home 2018: 1-2 Belgium 2022: 1-1 Croatia (pens)
The casualness with which Haaland seemed to do that, and his clam reaction after, are absolutely top shelf.
folarin balogun steps onto the pitch. he's got a new celebration– six-shooter finger guns! wait, those are real revolvers! he guns down the entire belgian side in the first minute & trump lands marine one at midfield to present him with an official pardon and the medal of honor. he is then deported
you know who else made a call to a higher power to reverse a penalty for us
Watching all the reactions to the FIFA "decision" on this app has been quite telling.
Rene Higuita sighting we are truly blessed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRj3...
Goalkeeper René Higuita's Incredible Scorpion Kick | From The Archive
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