Genuinely the most blatantly corrupt thing I’ve ever seen FIFA do.

It’s over for me. The world cup was never 100% fair, but this is just straight up wild. If political pressure can be used to get FIFA to take away red cards. What’s to say it isn’t being used to tell FIFA to make referees favour a team.

There’s no point in watching a corrupt sport that is speedrunning towards fixed.

I will only be watching the CONIFA world cup from now on.

And this right here is why I decided to boycott this World Cup. Clearly, I didn't know that this would happen, but I had a suspicion something like this might happen. Allowing Ronaldo to play by removing his 2 game suspension was bullshit, but this is doing a cannonball into the crazy end of the pool.

And FIFA even had a non-crazy way to handle this, which is the stupid part. All they had to do was say that VAR didn't follow the proper protocols, so the Red Card was lifted. Nope. They just embraced the crazy.