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We can't look away from the images of families fleeing burning houses without calling this out as a pogrom, whipped up by influential actors who care nothing for the people of Belfast:
www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
My colleague @hannahalothman.bsky.social is in Belfast tonight. This is what she’s seen.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
FairSquare just posted a series of posts about a FIFA press conference that we mistakenly believed was taking place today and is actually taking place tomorrow. These posts have been removed and the staff members involved have been sent to a reading camp.
Adding to the shame from football authorities— not a single word about this from the Confederation of African Football, the governing body whose top referee has lost out on his World Cup dream. Who with any semblance of power is making representations on behalf of this man, standing up for him?
The visa story is the most telling controversy this World Cup has had
Fifa is going against its own rules and precedent
Should it even be held in a state that clearly doesn't see it as a World Cup
What was the point of Infantino's cravenness to Trump?
www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
FIFA tells the world football is neutral and apolitical.
Iran's fan ticket allocation has just been revoked by the USA just days before the #WorldCup
FIFA have allowed the USA to weaponise #football for politics, against their own rules. Add your name to the complaint at rebootfifa.com
🎧New episode about:
⚽ FIFA’s growing ties to betting and prediction markets
🌍 Offshore betting and weak regulation
💻 FIFA+ used on betting websites
🚨 Match-fixing concerns in low-level football
🏆 Integrity risks ahead of the 2026 World Cup
👉 play-the-game-podcast.captivate.fm
Omar Artan's case shows two things very clearly:
Gianni Infantino is an accomplice of Donald Trump and the MAGA World Cup. And Infantino has failed as FIFA president. [And so have all who backed him through absurdities like the peace prize etc.]
Piece in German.
www.faz.net/aktuell/spor...
