What depresses me is the fact that the countries that are having their teams treated so despicably by the US empire, should be withdrawing from the competition but instead allow their citizens to be humiliated and treated like criminals. A shame on these governments, they are collaborating with the US racist regime!
Oh man, yeah. And also give up fostering youth around the world to do the right thing and give your strength and focus and physical hard earned work to become who you are to the ass holes of the world. I dont think athletes are trained to do that. Or, I'd like to believe that from what I know of dedicated people.
You must not know true athletes. A true athlete never walks, but finds his or her way by being the most exceptional person they say robots will replace. A robot can never replace a dedicated athlete, even if that athlete "walks" and dont forget, robots are not paid but programed. This shit is human and it is us humans our athletes represent.
Yes, the teams need to refuse to play in the US. Play in Canada and Mexico, but not in the US.
And why has the International Olympic Committee not changed venues for the '28 games or simply cancelled them? (Sadly that is a rhetorical question.)
And to Andrea's comment above, walkouts work. The University of Missouri (my uni) football team demanded that the university's Chancellor and President resign or else they would not play. They played, the administrators resigned.
The Ebola justification for the Senegal tarmac search is worth dwelling on. Senegal has no active Ebola outbreak. That framing has a long history as a mechanism for restricting African movement — it's not an administrative error, it's a recognisable colonial-era disease-as-threat logic applied to a football squad in 2026. Taken alongside the Artan case, the journalist exclusions, and the bond requirements that price out African fan bases specifically, the pattern is less a shitshow than a consistent hierarchy.
This >>> FIFA-appointed Somalian referee Omar Artan, voted the best referee in Africa last year and travelling on a diplomatic passport, was denied entry to the US when he landed at Miami and forced to fly back home <<< is a bl00dy shame, a disgrace.
FIFA and all football-teams should quit the Football World Cup right now, turn their back to the United States of America and go home. STOP US RACISM. STOP US FASCISM.
I played for my high school football (soccer) team over my sophomore through senior years, 1969 - 1971. Those were the first three years that interscholastic football competition took place in Kansas City, Missouri. (KC was way behind St. Louis, Mo which was a football hotbed in this decaying empire.) Those were the only years I played organized football. I had enough talent to play in college, but that would require attending one. I did not. (Did later in life.)
Athletics saved my life. I started running in my mid twenties and quickly surpassed the form that I had when I set my high school 2 mile record. I ended up being a triathlete. A careless motorist hitting me head on while I was out on a training ride ended my triathlon days. But after a few years of arduous recovery I could race a bike.
So biking is my love, but I still appreciate the beauty of a football match.
After surviving three more encounters with massive mobile metal objects and still miraculously able to send it on pedals I switched to mountain biking since the autos were parked at the trail head and not moving on the trails.
So a few days ago I missed seeing a deep depression in the trail due to bad visibility. That had consequences: sutures, abrasions, surfacing bruises, and a sling for my left arm.
Recovery at 73 is a bit slower than 33. Bringing me back from yet another hospital appointment yesterday my wife remarked how the upcoming Tour de France and the FIFA World Cup would help keep me entertained.
I told her that I would not watch a minute of the World Cup as FIFA should never selected our immoral country to host. I said a bit more, but I will forward Nate's article to her and the rest of my family to clarify the reasons for my stance.
Love your story and reply, particularly "FIFA should never selected our immoral country to host." Too many dont recognize our immorality. Other wise we would be a different nation. I don't know how you feel, but when I try to engage my fellow Americans in dialog about what is happening in our country, I get crickets or subject change. Got to find my tribe.
I will be one to boycott it. With all this racist s..t going on, it is not a true world cup. These things we love get lost in the insanity of regimes like we Americans are experiencing now. Had we been paying attention, like we've been trained not to do, this could not happen, among many other happenings.
Beam me up Scotty, I dont want to see the destruction of this beautiful planet with ao many billions of people who are not the selfish and ugly epstein class, but the minions who would feed you if you were hungry even though they often go hungry themselves. Ivanka Trump is only beautiful because we have been robbed of our vision to see beyond the boxed up ugliness called beauty. Beauty is not the outside of a person, but the inside. Hollywood has not helped us to see clearer, nor many other American glorification of supposed beauty, like war. It is a lie and it us a fake and I wish so many people do not buy our long time fake democracy. We are all in for a very rude, mildly put, awakening.
While I hate the truth I learned by changing my smile to a Kennedy look alike, I at least learned it. I often do not wear my fake teeth just to I see the different responses.
The only reason there are no happy endings are the horrible beginnings native and blacks have yet to be compensated for much less any admission from our EU ancestors that their shit was all wrong that they brought here.
Why dont you yourself make a proposal when you see so often wasted arguments? Are you saying the entire world is immoral and sociopaths control our world and we have no agency? And the only ones with agency are sociopaths who hold power?
There is no lie that is comforting in my world. I believe in truth, no matter how messy that might be. If we were taught the # of American presidents who were.assissinated for supporting our own currency like Gaddifi did and the plethora of truths we've never been taught because Israel isnot the only country propoganizing their youth to perform on the way they do, all countries do to an extent but not quite like Israel.
Truth is extremely powerful and if taught i n our currently controlled government schools, it could do the work we need done across the natio n. Since those in control of our ed system is currently attacking home schoolers in Connecticut, as always Truth is under attack and has yet been unable to do its job.
I am not a soccer fan. However, I am a sports fan, and I’ve watched football, hockey, baseball, and basketball evolve over the years to become more entertaining and fan friendly. After one week of watching World Cup matches, I have a few humble suggestions to help soccer reach its full potential.
1. Get Rid of the Offside Rule
Half the goals seem to be erased because someone’s shoelace wandered three inches too far forward. In an already low-scoring sport, taking goals off the board feels like a strange business model. The best play in American football is the 60-yard bomb. Nobody cares whether the receiver got to the end zone before the ball did. If the ball ends up in the net, let the people celebrate.
2. Adopt Basketball’s Backcourt Rule
Once the ball crosses midfield, it can’t go backward. Enough of the endless retreating, recycling, and passing back to the goalie. Fans came to watch an attack, not a group project on ball possession.
3. Move the Penalty Kick Back
Move penalty kicks to the 18-yard box. As it stands, stopping a penalty kick requires roughly equal parts skill, luck, and divine intervention. Most saves happen because the goalie guesses correctly. Let’s make it more of a contest and less of a coin flip.
4. Add a Penalty Box
A yellow card should mean time in the penalty box. Different infractions could carry different penalties: five minutes for a routine foul, ten minutes for a dangerous trip or reckless challenge. The power play is one of hockey’s greatest inventions. Why not borrow a little excitement? Soccer could use a few more moments where everyone in the stadium collectively loses their minds.
5. Penalize Flopping
If a player is caught flopping, give him a yellow card. Fans are tired of watching a player appear to suffer a career-ending injury, require immediate medical attention, and then sprint 40 yards two minutes later to score a goal. If Hollywood wants that level of acting, they should have to pay royalties.
6. Stop the Clock
Get rid of the mysterious added time. If a player gets hurt, stop the clock. If a goal is scored and the team spends three minutes celebrating like they just landed on Mars, stop the clock. Ninety minutes should mean ninety minutes, not ninety-plus-whatever-the-referee-feels-like-today.
7. Pull the Goalie
A team down by one goal with two minutes left should pull the goalie and add another attacker. Hockey fans know this creates chaos, panic, desperation, and entertainment—the four pillars of great sports viewing. Sure, it may lead to an easy goal for the other team, but fortune favors the bold.
8. Improve the TV Coverage
Add more overhead cameras so viewers can actually see plays develop. Half the time the ball disappears into a crowd and we're left guessing whether the match is still being played. And while we're making improvements, one official timeout per half wouldn’t hurt. It would give broadcasters a break, fans a chance to refill snacks, and everyone an opportunity to remember where they left the remote.
These are just a few ideas to help this struggling sports institution get its footing and charge boldly into the future. After all, soccer only has billions of fans worldwide. Clearly, it's one or two rule changes away from finally making it big.
What depresses me is the fact that the countries that are having their teams treated so despicably by the US empire, should be withdrawing from the competition but instead allow their citizens to be humiliated and treated like criminals. A shame on these governments, they are collaborating with the US racist regime!
The players could walk.
I hope they do. It would help the rest of us to walk too.
The problem with that is they have to deal with their respective governments don't they.
Oh man, yeah. And also give up fostering youth around the world to do the right thing and give your strength and focus and physical hard earned work to become who you are to the ass holes of the world. I dont think athletes are trained to do that. Or, I'd like to believe that from what I know of dedicated people.
I don’t know… here if you walk you walk (quit)
You must not know true athletes. A true athlete never walks, but finds his or her way by being the most exceptional person they say robots will replace. A robot can never replace a dedicated athlete, even if that athlete "walks" and dont forget, robots are not paid but programed. This shit is human and it is us humans our athletes represent.
"Won't someone think of the money?"
Everyone thinks of the money. It ain't saving the world yet.
Why isn’t everyone boycotting FIFA, including the teams themselves? To keep it status quo is accepting the racism and violence of the US.
Yes, the teams need to refuse to play in the US. Play in Canada and Mexico, but not in the US.
And why has the International Olympic Committee not changed venues for the '28 games or simply cancelled them? (Sadly that is a rhetorical question.)
And to Andrea's comment above, walkouts work. The University of Missouri (my uni) football team demanded that the university's Chancellor and President resign or else they would not play. They played, the administrators resigned.
The Ebola justification for the Senegal tarmac search is worth dwelling on. Senegal has no active Ebola outbreak. That framing has a long history as a mechanism for restricting African movement — it's not an administrative error, it's a recognisable colonial-era disease-as-threat logic applied to a football squad in 2026. Taken alongside the Artan case, the journalist exclusions, and the bond requirements that price out African fan bases specifically, the pattern is less a shitshow than a consistent hierarchy.
This >>> FIFA-appointed Somalian referee Omar Artan, voted the best referee in Africa last year and travelling on a diplomatic passport, was denied entry to the US when he landed at Miami and forced to fly back home <<< is a bl00dy shame, a disgrace.
FIFA and all football-teams should quit the Football World Cup right now, turn their back to the United States of America and go home. STOP US RACISM. STOP US FASCISM.
Amen
Some personal history follows:
I played for my high school football (soccer) team over my sophomore through senior years, 1969 - 1971. Those were the first three years that interscholastic football competition took place in Kansas City, Missouri. (KC was way behind St. Louis, Mo which was a football hotbed in this decaying empire.) Those were the only years I played organized football. I had enough talent to play in college, but that would require attending one. I did not. (Did later in life.)
Athletics saved my life. I started running in my mid twenties and quickly surpassed the form that I had when I set my high school 2 mile record. I ended up being a triathlete. A careless motorist hitting me head on while I was out on a training ride ended my triathlon days. But after a few years of arduous recovery I could race a bike.
So biking is my love, but I still appreciate the beauty of a football match.
After surviving three more encounters with massive mobile metal objects and still miraculously able to send it on pedals I switched to mountain biking since the autos were parked at the trail head and not moving on the trails.
So a few days ago I missed seeing a deep depression in the trail due to bad visibility. That had consequences: sutures, abrasions, surfacing bruises, and a sling for my left arm.
Recovery at 73 is a bit slower than 33. Bringing me back from yet another hospital appointment yesterday my wife remarked how the upcoming Tour de France and the FIFA World Cup would help keep me entertained.
I told her that I would not watch a minute of the World Cup as FIFA should never selected our immoral country to host. I said a bit more, but I will forward Nate's article to her and the rest of my family to clarify the reasons for my stance.
Sorry to hear about your accident. Hope you are recovering well
Love your story and reply, particularly "FIFA should never selected our immoral country to host." Too many dont recognize our immorality. Other wise we would be a different nation. I don't know how you feel, but when I try to engage my fellow Americans in dialog about what is happening in our country, I get crickets or subject change. Got to find my tribe.
I will be one to boycott it. With all this racist s..t going on, it is not a true world cup. These things we love get lost in the insanity of regimes like we Americans are experiencing now. Had we been paying attention, like we've been trained not to do, this could not happen, among many other happenings.
Beam me up Scotty, I dont want to see the destruction of this beautiful planet with ao many billions of people who are not the selfish and ugly epstein class, but the minions who would feed you if you were hungry even though they often go hungry themselves. Ivanka Trump is only beautiful because we have been robbed of our vision to see beyond the boxed up ugliness called beauty. Beauty is not the outside of a person, but the inside. Hollywood has not helped us to see clearer, nor many other American glorification of supposed beauty, like war. It is a lie and it us a fake and I wish so many people do not buy our long time fake democracy. We are all in for a very rude, mildly put, awakening.
While I hate the truth I learned by changing my smile to a Kennedy look alike, I at least learned it. I often do not wear my fake teeth just to I see the different responses.
So, what does anyone propose to do about it?
I ask this over and over, because moral arguments are wasted on sociopaths.
What do you propose to do about it, dear Feral Finster?
If I had easy answers, I would have meowed long ago.
hahaha. I knew it.
You want comforting lies? Where is it written that every story must have a happy ending?
The only reason there are no happy endings are the horrible beginnings native and blacks have yet to be compensated for much less any admission from our EU ancestors that their shit was all wrong that they brought here.
If you think that is the only story that doesn't have a happy ending....
Why dont you yourself make a proposal when you see so often wasted arguments? Are you saying the entire world is immoral and sociopaths control our world and we have no agency? And the only ones with agency are sociopaths who hold power?
Sociopaths and psychopaths do control the world. Have you not seen the Epstein files? The world is ruled by monsters.
As I said, I wish I had easy answers. Or do you prefer comforting lies?
There is no lie that is comforting in my world. I believe in truth, no matter how messy that might be. If we were taught the # of American presidents who were.assissinated for supporting our own currency like Gaddifi did and the plethora of truths we've never been taught because Israel isnot the only country propoganizing their youth to perform on the way they do, all countries do to an extent but not quite like Israel.
Truth is extremely powerful and if taught i n our currently controlled government schools, it could do the work we need done across the natio n. Since those in control of our ed system is currently attacking home schoolers in Connecticut, as always Truth is under attack and has yet been unable to do its job.
💯
https://ianmcniff.substack.com/p/the-shirt-not-worn-the-revolution?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2lo6de
I am not a soccer fan. However, I am a sports fan, and I’ve watched football, hockey, baseball, and basketball evolve over the years to become more entertaining and fan friendly. After one week of watching World Cup matches, I have a few humble suggestions to help soccer reach its full potential.
1. Get Rid of the Offside Rule
Half the goals seem to be erased because someone’s shoelace wandered three inches too far forward. In an already low-scoring sport, taking goals off the board feels like a strange business model. The best play in American football is the 60-yard bomb. Nobody cares whether the receiver got to the end zone before the ball did. If the ball ends up in the net, let the people celebrate.
2. Adopt Basketball’s Backcourt Rule
Once the ball crosses midfield, it can’t go backward. Enough of the endless retreating, recycling, and passing back to the goalie. Fans came to watch an attack, not a group project on ball possession.
3. Move the Penalty Kick Back
Move penalty kicks to the 18-yard box. As it stands, stopping a penalty kick requires roughly equal parts skill, luck, and divine intervention. Most saves happen because the goalie guesses correctly. Let’s make it more of a contest and less of a coin flip.
4. Add a Penalty Box
A yellow card should mean time in the penalty box. Different infractions could carry different penalties: five minutes for a routine foul, ten minutes for a dangerous trip or reckless challenge. The power play is one of hockey’s greatest inventions. Why not borrow a little excitement? Soccer could use a few more moments where everyone in the stadium collectively loses their minds.
5. Penalize Flopping
If a player is caught flopping, give him a yellow card. Fans are tired of watching a player appear to suffer a career-ending injury, require immediate medical attention, and then sprint 40 yards two minutes later to score a goal. If Hollywood wants that level of acting, they should have to pay royalties.
6. Stop the Clock
Get rid of the mysterious added time. If a player gets hurt, stop the clock. If a goal is scored and the team spends three minutes celebrating like they just landed on Mars, stop the clock. Ninety minutes should mean ninety minutes, not ninety-plus-whatever-the-referee-feels-like-today.
7. Pull the Goalie
A team down by one goal with two minutes left should pull the goalie and add another attacker. Hockey fans know this creates chaos, panic, desperation, and entertainment—the four pillars of great sports viewing. Sure, it may lead to an easy goal for the other team, but fortune favors the bold.
8. Improve the TV Coverage
Add more overhead cameras so viewers can actually see plays develop. Half the time the ball disappears into a crowd and we're left guessing whether the match is still being played. And while we're making improvements, one official timeout per half wouldn’t hurt. It would give broadcasters a break, fans a chance to refill snacks, and everyone an opportunity to remember where they left the remote.
These are just a few ideas to help this struggling sports institution get its footing and charge boldly into the future. After all, soccer only has billions of fans worldwide. Clearly, it's one or two rule changes away from finally making it big.
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The only consolation is that Infantino is screwed and will probably be booted out.
Thank you for this piece, translated in French here : https://zanzibar.substack.com/p/la-coupe-du-monde-la-plus-raciste
Even the Olympics in Nazi Germany was more welcoming and decent.
https://ia903205.us.archive.org/25/items/4rth-pdf-upload/4rth%20-%20PDF%20Upload%20.pdf
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