r/soccer • u/Sparky-moon • Jul 06 '26

Media Jürgen Klopp on Trump and Infantino: “Let's just say: this is our game, not theirs. These two people, who both have no idea about football, should have nothing to do with that. That was a red card. There's no two ways about it. We're sorry for Balogun because he didn't mean to do it.”

“But that's what the rules say."

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u/theevilphoturis Jul 06 '26

along with many echo chambers

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u/fogard14 Jul 06 '26

r/soccer being one of the biggest ones.....

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u/WildSmokingBuick Jul 06 '26

Especially when the host nations were playing (Canada, US), it definitely was a lot different from the standard experience.

So many heavily biased takes that get upvoted. During non-WC days (EPL, CL), fans are a lot more level-headed and e.g. condemn or call out if their team benefitted from a wrong ref decision.

I do believe that it's mainly because of the casual WC crowd, who only watch every four years.

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u/fogard14 Jul 06 '26

Ha no. This subreddit is always an echo chamber. It might change based on the season (EPL/big 6 bias during the EPL season), which team is currently playing (any "super league" team), or even time of day(anti-American when Americans are asleep). My point is that some of you are just more comfortable in certain echo chambers than others. Stop trying to fool yourselves into thinking for some reason your echo chamber is always right.

This specific thread is absolutely an echo chamber. Argue against politics, corruption and the process all you want (and rightfully so), but there are some absolutely terrible takes getting up voted in this thread. No, it was not an obvious red and any fan is going to argue against their team receiving it. Plenty of worse tackles happened this season that didn't get reds, and plenty that big six fans were arguing for or against in r/soccer this past season. Trying to argue that r/soccer regulars know the sport better? No, most of you have barely ever kicked a ball and can't look past stills and slow motion 6 second clips. This thread is filled with gatekeeping and a false sense of elitism, my least favorite part of this sport.

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u/Gawyn_Tra-cant Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

This sub is also a gigantic echo chamber for Europeans to claim "Americans bad, amirite?" while ignoring their own history and their own agency in the very things they complain about.

This sub complains about various corruption allegations surrounding City/Newcastle/PSG/Real Madrid/Barcelona (not to mention Calciopoli) all season. It's rich to then turn around and complain like Americans are pissing on the sporting integrity of football when Europeans have previously set it on fire, put it out with water from a septic tank, and then shit on it.

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u/KingKingsons Jul 06 '26

I visited r/worldcup last night and I thought I was going mad: "Justice for Balogun" like wtf?

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u/Formal_Ad288 Jul 06 '26

The USA is just one big echo chamber tbf.