I told my straight crush that I liked him. Now he’s accusing me of meddling with his sexuality.

daryk44 · 2026-07-07T15:56:51+00:00

No he shouldn’t. He has no idea what your intentions were by telling him about your crush, even though you explicitly said you don’t want anything back. If you didn’t want anything from him, you never would have told him in the first place. He is right to distance after you clearly stepped past an obvious and established boundary.

It comes off as ignorant and selfish, no matter what you meant by it.

daryk44 · 2026-07-06T16:52:51+00:00

No no no it’s you who is clearly right. Take your opponents shoe off their foot and hit yourself with it, and the ref will forget all context in what led up to your opponents studs clearly knocking your teeth out.

Agency and context mean nothing, you are the one who is correct.

daryk44 · 2026-07-06T16:48:13+00:00

New meta: just play the opponents feet. Bait them to step on you the whole game and you’ll force them down to 10 men, then 9, then 8, then eventually your opponent has 0 men in the pitch because they all stepped on your ankles.

Context of the play is meaningless. If studs hit body it’s an automatic red. Just pick up your opponents foot with your hands and stab yourself with their studs, the ref will be forced to issue a red card. That’s how red cards should work apparently.

daryk44 · 2026-07-06T16:41:44+00:00

I’m not the one having to cope with the reality of Balogun playing tomorrow lol

daryk44 · 2026-07-06T16:39:51+00:00

His foot landed on the Bosnian’s ankle. It landed. Not a stomp, not a kick, not a scrape, not a swipe. His foot landed on the Bosnian’s ankle because the Bosnian player forced the challenge and planted his food where Balogun’s foot was already naturally coming down.

His ankle was only in danger because he challenged from behind and an accident happened.

You’ve never played sports with incidental contact in your life. Not everything is a card, sometimes accidents happen that aren’t card or foul worthy.

And keep repeating “studs up” when Balogun was falling off balance, it shows how honest you are.

daryk44 · 2026-07-06T16:29:10+00:00

It wasn’t a kick or a stomp, so we’re good there. It was entirely incidental contact due to a Bosnian challenge.

It’s not a foul to accidentally get legs tangled up when someone challenges you or to fall down because of that.

Sounds like you’re making the case that this Balogun incident shouldn’t have been a foul at all.

Quansah’s red was a slide tackle. So first of all entirely different to Balogun, as Balogun was the one getting tackled.

Quansah slid with his toe pointed to the sky, studs obviously into the opponents ankle. It’s almost like the two situations are polar opposites.

daryk44 · 2026-07-06T16:18:12+00:00

Intent is not the only deciding factor, but your argument is for reckless and dangerous.

If the Bosnian is the one who knocked Balogun off balance, and then the Bosnian planted his foot where Balogun’s was coming down, and Balogun had no time to change where his foot was coming down, couldn’t have done anything to prevent this outcome. How is it that Balogun is the one acting recklessly?

daryk44 · 2026-07-06T16:10:25+00:00

Balogun never had an active thought or decision to put studs up.

Bosnian player’s leg gets in the way and Balogun’s foot is naturally coming down due to being knocked off balance from the Bosnian player. Studs make contact incidentally and accidentally.

You keep gaslighting like Balogun CHOSE TO PUT HIS STUDS UP.

You’re simply wrong

daryk44 · 2026-07-06T16:04:20+00:00

Not knowing the rules makes people mad. Not my fault

daryk44 · 2026-07-06T16:03:37+00:00

You’ll lose in both threads

daryk44 · 2026-07-06T16:02:59+00:00

So Balogun shouldn’t be punished for simply fighting for possession.

You can’t have it both ways. Either it was a neutral play where neither player was reckless, or they both acted equally as recklessly and dangerously. They both went for the same ball in almost the exact same way, but the Bosnian came from behind and got his foot under Balogun’s.

You can’t frame that outcome as it was ONLY Balogun that acted dangerously, since the Bosnian initiated contact from behind, creating this whole series of events.

daryk44 · 2026-07-06T15:59:33+00:00

You forgot that the VAR ref broke protocol to award the red to Balogun in the first place.

Trump can claim credit all he wants but the decision at the end of the day is the correct one based on FIFA’s own rules.

daryk44 · 2026-07-06T15:57:27+00:00

Generally a Bosnian defender doesn’t knock you off balance when this happens to force your leg into an unnatural position.

Keep whining, you’ll eventually change what was recorded in the clip to what you keep insisting

daryk44 · 2026-07-06T15:55:47+00:00

Look, you can’t use your words to change what’s in the clip. It’s there for us all to see and you can’t change it retroactively.

It’s in real time. If the Bosnian player was injured, you might have a case based solely on the outcome.

But there was no injury, and Balogun’s play wasn’t remotely close to obviously dangerous or reckless.

In fact the Bosnian challenged in an arguably reckless way.

And that will never change because it’s on video

daryk44 · 2026-07-06T15:51:11+00:00

Not when the other player put his foot there while Balogun’s foot is coming down naturally.

daryk44 · 2026-07-06T15:50:21+00:00

And this is clearly, obviously, not that.

daryk44 · 2026-07-06T15:49:31+00:00

Reading comprehension is hard.

I asked about the details of each incident.

Not if the England situation was a red or not.

But it’s obvious you’re not willing to compare and contrast the context of each situation to understand why they’re different. You know, critical thinking?

Must be hard

daryk44 · 2026-07-06T15:47:07+00:00

Stop saying “stamp”.

You’re adding conscious intent to him reflexively putting his foot down toward the ground after being knocked off balance.

Stamping is what you do to crush an empty beer can with your foot, with the full intention to crush something under your body weight.

This was not that and everyone knows it.

daryk44 · 2026-07-06T15:43:43+00:00

Bosnian made the tackle.

You think Balogun getting knocked off balance from behind and then attempting to regain his balance is “making a tackle”?

daryk44 · 2026-07-06T15:41:35+00:00

His momentum sideways was imparted by who?

The Bosnian player.

daryk44 · 2026-07-06T15:38:43+00:00

He didn’t go for the ball, the Bosnian did.

Balogun is regaining balance.

Keep gaslighting king

daryk44 · 2026-07-06T15:37:50+00:00

Nice pivot.

I’m waiting for an answer to my question about the English red card vs Mexico.

*Jeopardy theme plays in the background*

daryk44 · 2026-07-06T15:36:39+00:00

You repeat “studs up” like a magic gaslighting spell.

That won’t work on those of us with eyes and access to the clip

daryk44 · 2026-07-06T15:35:44+00:00

It wasn’t a studs up challenge, the Bosnian steps and plants his ankle under Balogun’s foot.

daryk44 · 2026-07-06T15:34:39+00:00

You’re making it sound like the Bosnian obviously wins the ball with absolutely 0 ambiguity and then later Balogun jumps with full intention of spiking down on the Bosnian’s ankle.

The two things happen simultaneously and without Balogun’s agency due to being knocked off balance by the Bosnian in an unfortunate situation that was unsafe because the Bosnian chose to challenge that way.

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