The Poolie Bunker

Firstly the Falklands banner. You can’t have any team going onto the pitch post match with a political banner. If that’s okay then everyone will do it all the time. Argentina think they’re above the law but they’re not. Punishment? For me a big fine (a proper meaningful amount) and the three players most involved banned for at least three matches.

The Whitehouse have said it’s “free speech” but they talk bollocks. What would happen if Canada had lifted up a banner stating “Trump - stick your tariffs somewhere dark”

Secondly the post final aggro. I’ve seen this analysed on two separate news sites. Argentina players instigate the violence all the way through. At each point they are the ones who keep things going and make thing worse. Punishment? Another big fine, bans, and charging the Argie F.A. for not keeping their players under control.

Let’s see if FIFA take the action here, or sweep it under the carpet later, when we’ve all moved on.

Wasn`t BLM political??

correct, but you have to start somewhere and get stricter. big fines and bans would show to the rest that anything political is not needed in football.

You'll never find 'Argentina' and 'sportsmanship' in the same sentence. Turning their backs on Spain when they were presented with the World Cup was beyond pathetic. They make Don Revie's Leeds look like choirboys.

FIFA will likely do feck all. Their refs let Argentina get away with murder right through the tournament.

Zero or maybe a paltry fine.

Bugger all.

they need to be seen to be doing something if only to stop others following in the future.

The 2026 World Cup finished days ago, it’s history, move on noughts going to happen albeit there are loads of AI generated stuff on X about Argentinas tactics.

Disagree. Something will happen! The question is what. Otherwise what’s good for the Argies is good for the goose.

That Spying Southampton manager has only just been charged by our F.A. today, things take time.

They’ve been doing this for decades and only got worse because they get indulged..can’t see anything other than a slap on the wrist.

If strong action isn’t taken re the banner it raises up the prospect of lots of interesting banners getting displayed in the future. Some could be comedic.

Not just Argentina most of the South American teams maybe apart from Brazil have a reputation for being cloggers, didn’t England play against Columbia years ago and they got kicked all over the field ?

would be quite happy if that was the only influence foreigners have brought to the game. find all that diving, pretending to be injured and pre rehersed goal celebrations even worse,