re: Belgium with some salty tears

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Okay you’re one of those TDR tools. Good lawd

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You wear velcro shoes huh?

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Do you realize every sports team in America and beyond complains about the refs and how their respective league handles things?

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Sure, but outwardly talking about how you are disappointed that your opponent’s best player will be available is soft. It’s not like they are upset with how a play/call affected one of their matches, they are just crying because they wanted an easier match against the USA.

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Why have a country's President allegedly get involved in internal rule enforcement?

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If you would read the part of your comment that I took umbrage with, it had nothing to do with the president getting involved with this specific event. You said that the US president shouldn’t even know the name of the president of a huge international event taking place in his country

FIFA has used this same rule numerous times for red cards received at the end of qualifying when the suspension would extend into the WC. Famously Ronaldo received a three game ban in the last qualifying game and FIFA used the same rule to “suspend” two of the three game suspension. So yes they have used this rule before to mitigate suspensions affecting WC games.

They objectively used the wrong VAR procedure. The procedure is explicitly in place so that you don’t give incorrect red cards, because they know that fouls looked at in still or in slow motion will look like red card fouls when they aren’t. Thats why Balogun is the only person to get a red via a VAR initiated review even though there’s been a bunch of similar fouls.

He’s the first person we know of to get a red card because VAR broke their own review rules. So yes it is different

Those red cards weren’t technically appealed because they weren’t overturned, the same as Balogun’s. A Rule 27 suspended sentence doesn’t require an appeal because you aren’t overturning the red card or even technically overturning the sentence.

Yes it’s never been used for a red card receive in a WC before. There’s also never been a red card given by a VAR official in WC after an objectively incorrect use of a VAR technology before. A first time mistake can’t require a first time remedy??

Again not a subjective decision on what is a red card. An objective misuse of the technology. A closer example would be a second yellow card given to the wrong player resulting in a red. An objective mistake.

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both at this FIFA World Cup and at future editions of the tournament, the RBFA is investigating all potential options

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They should investigate crying less about what was always the correct decision. And air conditioning while they’re at it.

It’s such obvious Euro gatekeeping. If a mainstream Euro power had been the victim of the same VAR mistake and been scheduled to play the U.S. they would all be arguing for a suspended sentence for Mbappe/Kane/etc, the same as has happened for numerous big country players before.

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If we were in Belgium’s spot, I hope that we would be raising hell about it too.

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I can’t imagine going into a Bama game or something and getting upset that one of their best players can play.

What a weird loser mindset. Seriously. I just can’t imagine identifying with whatever that impulse is.

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Common sense prevailed on this issue and the holier than thou, pearl clutching, gatekeepers across the pond are pissed

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Which goes to what is actually happening,, the rest of the world is slowly seeing that US Soccer is a solid team. We aren't plucky underdogs right now. The thought of the US having a team than can compete with the best of the world scares them.

Lots of euro fans were sure that we were getting grouped.