** World Cup 2026 - USA, Canada, Mexico Thread **

they did it for CR7 so that he wouldn't miss any games this tournament

Is anyone denying that FIFA is corrupt as ****? Two things can be true.

Supporting corruption because it favours your team isn't a good look.

If that's what you meant then fair enough but it isn't what you typed.

Trump is an amazing negotiator. What a win for USA.

A great birthday present for #250.

If he did this, there would have been 5 tweets about it already.

He's humble too

Toosh.

it'll be hilarious if they manage to lose to lolbelgium anyway, but that match will almost certainly be mega rigged too so oh well, enjoy arbys

The outcome is correct, I guess, but the process seems completely ****ed. As far as I can tell, this is allowed under Article 27, but there doesn't seem to be any defined process for reviewing red cards for suspension of the one-game punishment, nor any protocol for explaining why a decision was made. It just seems like a provision that lets FIFA do whatever it wants with no explanation.

Insanely opaque. There needs to be a transparent review process for improper VAR usage.

Oh boy

housenuts already got the toosh cred

LOL if youre going to do this just rescind the red card saying the decision was wrong, don't ****ing do this as it does nothing but yield more suspicion and questions

Article 27 let's them suspend the suspension. Doesn't seem to give them the ability to rescind the red card.

The rules have changed such that red cards can no longer be rescinded after a game? There isn't another article that permits that?

Loser lol

I agree with this as per my earlier post. It appears FIFA don't though. I guess it's whatever, we all know their corrupt and nothings going to change that. It wasn't a red card and everyone would have applauded if they had fully rescinded it on an appeal or something along those lines. They don't do that though.

Wonder if the VAR man is going to have to help USA vs Belgium. He had better b/cos I bet on them to make the quarters pre tournament.

Only really watched him a lot when he was in England which was towards the end of the career but he was an absolute straight up boss. Never heard his punditry but you can't tell a lion to stfu.

Does anyone here legitimately believe that the red was awarded correctly?

Should make one of the referee going to the VAR screen in USA v Belgium and instead of a replay just being connected to Trump via video call.