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Rob Shore

@robshore.bsky.social

Charlton & Ravens fan. FPL & fantasy football dabbling. Bradford HDRC data lead—health inequalities, data science, public comms, misinfo, and policy influence. NIHR research visitor at City & York: data viz for local authority decision-making.

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John Bull@garius.bsky.social · last mo.

That Belgian FA statement, with alt. The can of worms FIFA have just poured over themselves is huge. This has spooked all the European FAs. Their whole deal with FIFA has ALWAYS been that you don't let the leopard bite their faces. They just chomped on Belgium's nose www.rbfa.be/en/news/upda...

Following its previous statement, the RBFA wishes to publicly explain the events of the past few hours. After learning through media reports of FIFA’s decision to lift the automatic suspension of player Balogun, the RBFA sent a letter to FIFA requesting a copy of the decision, an explanation of the process that had been followed, and setting out its position regarding the applicable regulations. As its only response, FIFA sent a letter to the RBFA stating that it considered this correspondence to constitute an appeal, that a judge had been appointed, and that the RBFA had only a few hours to complete that appeal. No information whatsoever was provided by FIFA. For an appeal to be admissible, FIFA’s own regulations state that the reasoned decision must first have been communicated to the appellant. While the RBFA was merely seeking legitimate explanations, FIFA itself created an appeal and immediately ensured that it would be declared inadmissible. All of this occurred while FIFA simultaneously refused to respond to the RBFA’s legitimate requests. Furthermore, during the match coordination meeting, FIFA deliberately removed the section concerning the automatic suspension of players from its presentation. This topic had nonetheless been part of all such meetings before each of the previous four matches. The RBFA questioned FIFA, both orally and in writing, about the reasons for this change, yet once again received no response. To be clear, as of this moment, the RBFA has still not received any decision or any explanation from FIFA regarding this matter. It therefore has no alternative but to challenge the player's eligibility for the upcoming match. Regardless of the sporting outcome of this match, the RBFA is deeply concerned by the course of events and will continue to fight in the coming hours, days and months in defence of the fundamental principles of ethics, fair competition, and the interests of football as a whole.
Paul Murphy@paulmurphy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How is developing & delivering green engineering NOT a huge economic opportunity Mr Blair? How is NetZero bad for the economy? Please tell me your commitment to gas & oil energy is more thought out than just “it’s what we’ve always done”? #r4today

Dr. Prakash Kashwan@pkashwan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Will this billionaire-backed campaign to crush a green transition by any means necessary, hold back the tide of clean energy autonomy? Let’s tell it like it is; the world’s addiction to fossil fuels is one of the greatest threats to global stability & prosperity” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly | Jonathan Watts

China is dominating the energy transition with astonishing result, while fossil fuel fascists in the US try to turn back the clock

theguardian.com

Rob Shore@robshore.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Arsenal, originally a South London team and the bizarre ‘North London forever’ nonsense. Arsenal shouldn’t have to manufacture history and identity the same as a club like Palace does.