inkstainsandsunsets

Soccer players are the horses of men’s sports. They run around in fields for hours on end. They stub their toe and they die. They fall and they die. They run into each other and

Imagine being Lamine Yamal and you’re 19 years old you’ve only been on this earth for like 228 months total you just wrapped up puberty like 2 maybe 3 years ago you watched Haalingham yaoi get shot on live tv so you lowkey gotta defend gay rights by murdering Lionel Messi most famous soccer player in the world FIFA’s little 39 year old baby boy and the man who coincidentally baptized you and thus began the prophecy of his own defeat by your hands or the whole world will burn

a handprint made in concrete is just the image of a hand, it’s not the real thing. or, it’s the absence of a hand, more than anything, the negative space. the casing around where it should be. it’s an indent that was made from something real - that could not have existed without something real - but it’s not the real thing, it’s just trying to be. maybe it’s not even trying. you put your hand there with your mother and the concrete remembers, and the handprint doesn’t even know why it exists, it just does. if we can make copies and not-things from real things in the world, who’s the say the world couldn’t do that itself? does it even need to know why?

egypt we will never forget that they blatantly stole this from you in the most disgusting way possible

the most frightening part of the balogun red card situation is that it makes you realize that fifa doesn't care about maintaining an impartial facade anymore. because if they still had any decorum, they would have said that after the us appealed, they reviewed the incident and decided VAR protocol was not followed properly or whatever, any vague excuse, and that's why balogun eligible to play against belgium. they would have hidden trump's involvement. but no. the corruption and favoritism is all out in the open because they don't care

GOING TO NEED NORWAY TO END ENGLAND OR I WILL DO IT MYSELF 😭😭😭