Justice has been done, USA and Portugal out of the World Cup some will say. Both teams subject to FIFA interventions on red cards; first last November when Ronaldo had his red card suspended by FIFA to enable him to be available to play in the first two Portugal games of the Tournament and then the USA player Balogun's suspension overturned by FIFA to enable him to play last night. What of the silence about Ronaldo and the uproar about Balogun. I think we all know why. How many know that the Balogun red card was harsh and should have only been a yellow? How many who speak now know about the Ronaldo lifting of his two match red card suspension?
UEFA should know better than to make a fuss about Balogun decision but not about Ronaldo where they kept quiet and said nothing.
Will England be next out with FIFA mulling over a plan to bring forward the Mexico game by 6 hours to avoid the storms was intervened by Keir Starmer who said it would be disadvantageous to England to have 6 hours less time to train so FIFA backed down. In fact the storms were very real and the 6 hour earliler start made sense.
Today is a nice day in England with perfect harvest weather here in the east.
Stage 4 of the Tour is going to be frighteningly hot with temperatures reaching 37 to 40 degrees on the run between Carcassonne and Foix.
Justice is done all right! I don't know whether the red card was deserved and hadn't heard about Ronaldo but it was the reversal after a phone call from a person with power.
ReplyDeleteEveryone around here is cheering for Belgium now.
It was a reversal by a Fifa official who should have known better. You never heard of the Ronaldo reversal because no fuss was made, it was just waved through, and again a bad Fifa decision. Fifa are the culprits here. Fifa has been corrupt for years. Why not ask if you are president, like Starmer didn't want the England match brought forward, no harm in asking.
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