but you can't take the ER out of the girl

In my funny little guy era. they/them. Sometimes I write.

[sudaca-swag]

[sudaca-swag]

Visas being denied to players and their families

Forbidding the iranian team coaches from entering the country and forcing them to direct the game from MEXICO through a tv

Players from non european countries being stopped and searched like criminals with dogs

Deporting african referees just because of their nationality

Forbidding interviews from being spoken i'm languages other than English and forbidding journalists and players from speaking their native languages

And all this just in the first week....

[harrietdyker]

thank you congo for curbing the evil that is christiano ronaldo. beautiful work.

[enoughtohold]

Los Angeles, 1996. Photo by Nancy Palmieri.

[lyamal]

there will NEVER be anyone like him

[harrietdyker]

it's been about a decade since i've been watching football in any regular capacity so of course things change and also this might be down to how american audiences/sports outlets are talking about it but this growing obsession with intense precision in ref decision making that is enabled and encouraged by VAR is so off putting to me. like I am obviously in favor of a fair game and some reffing decisions are always going to be inexplicable and wrong but there is a level of messy humanity involved in football and it's part of how the game works. it feels like there's a push against it now and I don't know if it's specifically this world cup because of the deep american interest/investment or just in general because of the developing technologies. either way it's a thumbs down for me

[harrietdyker]

i'm so sorry to all my sport ambivalent mutuals for what the next month is going to be like around here. at some point i'm assuming i'll blog about something else again

[coachability]

most importantly, it’s not gay if he’s your coach

[worldcupwinner]

Lionel Messi at every World Cup from 2006 to 2026

The greatest to ever play the game has graced the World Cup for two decades. Having made his debut at just 18, he now makes an unprecedented sixth World Cup appearance at the age of 38, four years after finally becoming a World Cup winner.

He is the first player to play in six World Cups.

He has played more World Cup matches than any other player in history.

[dogpuppy]

[madcaker]

[harrietdyker]

girl do you ever watch football and remember it's the most beautiful sport in the world and you want to cry

[unrealcities]

I think Alexei Lalas and Zlatan Ibrahimovic should have a fistfight live on international TV. Then maybe Thierry and I and the world will be free of Fox Sports.

[harrietdyker]

also the fox commentators need to either become better at their job or do some cocaine so they can stop sounding half asleep every match

[harrietdyker]

going into the tag to see if i'm hallucinating the inexplicable terribleness of these ref decisions and i see that we are all in this together

[heaven-at-the-drive-in]

i need non-jews to realise that the recent rise in antisemitism isn’t strange or weird or unprecedented it’s because people just like you never unpacked the antisemitic biases in their mentality and society and continue not to attempt to. you need to listen to jews - read our books and engage with our issues and listen to us when we say things. i don’t care how much you hate nazis, you MUST be willing to deconstruct the antisemitism YOU HAVE INTERNALISED or sighing about how tragic the rise in antisemitism with no action whatsoever is is worse than nothing

[iamnmbr3]

#and no jews i know are surprised it’s happening. most of us expected it to happen and hoped we were wrong this time#lately i’ve been thinking a lot about that actually#the audacity to believe /my/ generation is the first to not experience full-throttle antisemitism#it feels so surreal that i ever believed Really Bad antisemitism was over#and there are jewish children who will never know the world i thought existed. so yeah please [points at original post]#antisemitism via @strangesmallbard

[harrietdyker]

why is france playing this cartoon villain game from minute 2 lol

[harrietdyker]

swifties coming at pidgey.....stay away from her get a job

[ssfoc]

Scotland fans singing Loch Lomond in the opening game against Haiti, World Cup 2026. Foxborough MA 14.06.2026