“Suspension Removed” - Balogun Gets HUGE Win as FIFA Overturns Red Card
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On this episode of the pod, Tom and Vinny discuss the controversial red card given to Everton's Romelu Lukaku for a foul on Everton's Raheem Sterling, and the reaction from FIFA's decision to rescind the red card.
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So you have this whole situation with World Cup.
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This is the guy that scored three goals for the U.S.
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Everybody's like, you're taking out our best play.
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Like, in one of the games, there was a hand where the guy hits the head first.
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So then all of a sudden, rumor comes, word comes out that Trump made the phone call to FIFA's president and says, hey, this is not acceptable.
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And then suddenly, yesterday, all over the place, the news is, hey, they lifted the red card and Balogun will be available to play today in today's big game against Belgium, which they could beat, by the way.
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And they're going to need every help they can get.
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And if they got their main number one score that scored more than anybody else in the game, that's a big help to them.
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now belgium's not happy a lot of people online are saying wait a minute once you make the call
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this you got to set a precedent you can never change it again this has never happened in history
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world cup what do you mean you're going to change it just because somebody's making a phone call
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this is why they don't trust politics and politicians are getting involved americans
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may be celebrating those americans that want to see america win their first world cup they're
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celebrating but other countries are saying isn't this kind of like this is not cool so tom your
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thoughts on this with the red card well there i have two thoughts and one is i like it when sports
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gets it right i like the electronic line keeping at wimbledon i like the electronics on strike
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zones and um baseball baseball and i like replaying football so i like it when they get it right and i
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like it when they're consistent uh i am not a diehard soccer fan but i get revved up for world
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cup and i get revved up for uefa and champions cup because that's when like everything matters
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everything's on the line no one's taking a day off but what what bothers me is is is that you
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look at all the video and you saw the messy play and the ballagun play were played side by side
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the red card no red card i like the consistency i'm just not sure i'm down with uh heads of state
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kind of weighing in a day after the game the sport has to get it right for the sport you're not with
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it uh i'm you know why you're an american because to be honest with you if it went the other way
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i would have lost my stuff i know we would have lost it but here's president's tweet i can't
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ignore that i know i know so here's thank you to fifa for doing what was right and reversing the
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great a great injustice and by the one of the clips that's going but that's president trump's
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tweet one of the clips that's going viral if you go a little bit higher you just had it go a little
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bit higher a little bit higher go back in and go higher it was a clip of the referee shows the red
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Well, first, we'll go back to the actual foul itself, Pat.
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So they immediately, the U.S. soccer team, not Trump, not anybody head of state, they fought the suspension.
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They argued FIFA misused the VAR by judging the intent instead of the simple review of the contact.
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Because for everybody that saw it, guys, he's fighting for the ball and comes down on his Achilles, okay?
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But then U.S. soccer CEO JT Batson and COO Dan Helfrich led the appeal.
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they assembled a legal strategy and threatened to take the case to court of arbitration for sport
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okay and then White House attorneys were reportedly prepared to assist if necessary okay then President
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Trump personally called Gianni Infantino and asked him to review he didn't say change it or else and
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guys let's just be honest and for everybody that's out there that's watching that's a sports fan
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that's an American the call was wrong he wasn't trying to hurt anyone it was accidentally unlike
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last night who was the player um Jarrell Kwanzaa uh he slid into uh Jesus Gallardo and he put his
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studs up Pat the guy purposely came up and tried to hurt the guy yeah so and England Mexico England
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Mexico yeah thank you so guys we're hosting hosting the biggest sporting event in the world
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okay we're this is our best striker okay that was a complete nonsense call fans want to see the best
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players play I love that he got involved I love that the president's calling that that's what I
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want from an american president he loves the freaking how many more instances bad does this
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guy have to do to show you that he's pro america you know he's pro sport remember back in the day
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when he wasn't racist when he's around don king and mike tyson and every single athlete you hate
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the most what what country if they would have played you hate the most usa to play yeah so
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let's just say pick a country that is any country in the world that's playing against usa what
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country would you like seriously hate to go up against oh hey oh because of you'd want to beat
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them and them to lose who would china okay let's say china so imagine if the world cup is in china
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okay and china's playing u.s and one of the china's players top score gets a red card and
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xi makes a phone call to fifa's president and says hey listen you know what i'm saying that's
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not a red card and then the fifa president changes it and they say no it's not a red card he's going
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to play and u.s is playing against china let's just say china all of a sudden using some incredible
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steroids growth hormone that you can't track and trace and this guy's the greatest soccer player
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in the world looks bigger than holland run faster than mbappe he's got better footwork than messy
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let's just say this happens because they have access to that kind of technology
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how would you feel if the if that phone call was made and that story comes out what would you say
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bomb them no so that's the part i understand that's the only part no i love your passion
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and that is the flip side and that's what i'm saying but everything you said was correct and
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i like it this soccer team the soccer leadership the soccer people they were proceeding with the
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appeal oh yeah i'm starting i'm ready for this though yeah tom this is this is the u.s soccer
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team alone started legal proceeding they're like we're gonna go do it he didn't order fifa to change
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it he simply said take another look at the bad call and they did by the way pat if everything
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is going tom to var and that line what was that game pat was it argentina it was a freaking toe
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and they reversed it this was not a red card penalty i'm sorry last night was a red card
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everybody in england knew they had that look like what what do you know about this what are your
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thoughts well we we know that soccer is taking over the world if it's the first story we cover
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on the great pbd podcast ladies and gentlemen it's a big deal first time ever game is today
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they're playing today against the game is today let's go usa so you could say all you want about
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trump this is the most america first move ever oh what our best player who i guarantee you didn't
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know he was he's like yeah get him on the phone get infante on the phone because they have a
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relationship do they not yeah so when he calls up quote-unquote the king of soccer when the king
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of the world calls up the king of soccer goes uh Gianni we're gonna need a little favor here
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Gianni has to realize he's gonna upset one of two people he's either gonna accept upset Trump
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or he's gonna upset basically Belgium Brussels the home of the EU the home of NATO the home of
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the capital of Europe and Infante congratulations you made the right decision you don't want to
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upset trump in his home turf so can you run a poll run a poll do you agree with the call or no do
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you agree with the reversal okay let's and by the way our audience is a worldwide audience i'm
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actually curious to know what they're gonna say if they agree with the reversal and i i see your
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point as well adam let's let's go to the next story 4th of july okay 4th of july weekend a lot
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of crazy things happen right i mean people want to go party you know all this other stuff benny
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you're in your 40s all right so let's go to dinner tonight oh yeah great what time do you want to go
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i'll see you at nine says 9 a.m says no 9 p.m he says i'm not going to dinner at 9 p.m tired 5 30
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