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Remember that time FIFA moved the whole tournament to the winter and lwt the host nation build the venues with slave labor in exchange for piles of cash?
Oh noes, our striker sorta cleated a guy kinda above his ankle but maybe not very much, obviously unintentionally, the fix is in!
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Keir Starmer intervened in row over Mexico-England kick-off time
Fifa had been set to bring the match forward by six hours, due to a forecast of thunderstorms.
www.bbc.com
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This is the World Cup......we can't just correct mistakes with the benefit of hindsight. Anyway, VAR was used to give the red card, so that's that.
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DubCoffman62
Lazy Slob
I think that they thought that they had a chance because they were hosting but as one honest guy said, physically it was like men against boys
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Jagdaddy
Head Coach
A lot of it's just performative IMO. UEFA, e.g., has to back its arguably affected member, Belgium, Belgium's coach has to look like he's doing everything to gain advantage for their fans, etc. And the "process" is dubious and arbitrary even though the result is good given that the red card was a trash call so there's a legitimate beef about that. And being "shocked" that FIFA is corrupt isn't real but is instead based on the need to pretend that they all didn't know that already to protect the tournament's "legitimacy".
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If anyone knows corruption it’s UEFA 
I could not give any less of a shit about soccer but I hope the dude scores a hat trick and then goes and teabags the VAR screen at the end of the game
I could not give any less of a shit about soccer but I hope the dude scores a hat trick and then goes and teabags the VAR screen at the end of the game
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