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    From Blueshirt@blueshirt@indigo.news to rec.sport.soccer on Wed Aug 26 13:07:01 2026
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    Looks like an own goal from UEFA will let FIFA off the hook
    and enable them to regroup. Game on!

    https://news.sky.com/story/european-nations-set-to-withdraw-threat-to-boycott-fifa-13577251

    We all know you have to kill teams off when you have the
    advantage. Now the pressure on FIFA has eased a bit and the
    Europeans are looking a bit flustered... have they enough
    fuel in the tank to kill this game off? Or will the main man
    up front for FIFA slot an equaliser in?

    UEFA talk the talk, but that can't walk the walk. This could
    be heading into extra time.

    Stay tuned...
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  • From FF@...@yahoo.com to rec.sport.soccer on Thu Aug 27 06:44:05 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.sport.soccer

    Blueshirt wrote:


    Looks like an own goal from UEFA will let FIFA off the hook
    and enable them to regroup. Game on!


    https://news.sky.com/story/european-nations-set-to-withdraw-threat-to-boycott-fifa-13577251

    We all know you have to kill teams off when you have the
    advantage. Now the pressure on FIFA has eased a bit and the
    Europeans are looking a bit flustered... have they enough
    fuel in the tank to kill this game off? Or will the main man
    up front for FIFA slot an equaliser in?

    UEFA talk the talk, but that can't walk the walk. This could
    be heading into extra time.

    Stay tuned...

    Great boycott. Unanimous, right ? When the time came they didn't even
    want to boycott the women under 20 WCup. :) And we should believe them
    that they actually intended to boycott the real one ? Yeah right. Was
    never going to happen.
    All they did with it was look ridiculous.

    They'll try to remove Infantino the regular way, if they can do it -
    OK, if that fails too, they'll just put up with it. Maybe wait for a
    better chance after Trump's term ends.
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  • From Blueshirt@blueshirt@indigo.news to rec.sport.soccer on Thu Aug 27 07:13:00 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.sport.soccer

    FF wrote:

    Blueshirt wrote:


    https://news.sky.com/story/european-nations-set-to-withdraw-threat-to-boycott-fifa-13577251


    UEFA talk the talk, but they can't walk the walk.

    Stay tuned...

    Great boycott. Unanimous, right ? When the time came they
    didn't even want to boycott the women under 20 WCup. :) And
    we should believe them that they actually intended to boycott
    the real one ? Yeah right. Was never going to happen.
    All they did with it was look ridiculous.

    It reminded me of the rainbow arm-band (One Love) thing from
    the 2022 FIFA World Cup, supporting LGBTQ rights as a 'fuck you'
    message to Qatar, that the FA and other European national
    associations were so keen on promoting and standing by... until
    FIFA threatened ... <gasp>... a yellow card to any team captain
    not wearing an official FIFA sanctioned arm-band! Those European
    associations soon caved and they all ended up looking foolish
    for trying to be 'right on' and trendy.

    If they believed in it they should have stood by it, but of
    course it was just virtue signalling. They didn't have the balls
    to make a stand.

    This "FIFA boycott" has now been shown to be something similar.
    No sensible person ever thought UEFA nations would boycott FIFA
    tournaments, especially the 2030 FIFA World Cup, so it was more
    smoke and mirrors PR spin from UEFA and its member associations.
    If you want to take on FIFA you need a better weapon than
    meaningless words.

    They'll try to remove Infantino the regular way, if they can
    do it - OK, if that fails too, they'll just put up with it.
    Maybe wait for a better chance after Trump's term ends.

    Infantino will survive until the FIFA elections next March and
    after that it'll come down to the numbers. Infantino is not
    stupid, he'll be flying around the world buying votes as we
    speak.

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