Argentina rally to beat England 2-1, reach World Cup final vs Spain
The beautiful game. The people’s game. Throughout this World Cup, we have been reminded of a simple truth: football belongs to everyone. So does the joy and community it creates. Yesterday, I joined New Yorkers on Rikers Island to watch England take on Argentina.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani1060We experienced one of the tournament’s biggest moments side by side. Joy and connection should not be scarce resources. Every New Yorker deserves to have their dignity affirmed.
Kate Powers171As someone who has taught behind prison walls for more than 15 years, I love that you went to Rikers, Mr. Mayor, to watch the game with folx incarcerated there. To be seen to be human is so valuable, and also, so painfully rare in carceral spaces.
Patron Saint of Lost Causes, aka Jeff Skrenes109This is living out Matthew 25:36, "When I was in prison you visited me." And yet conservative "Christians" can't stop their critiques of the guy.
The Quantum Scribe ⚾️ 🇲🇽 🤘🏳️🌈 💖💜💙45Can you be everybody’s mayor? All of us?
Rob Delaney41I’m a huge supporter & a prison abolitionist but I think you should put all Argentina supporters in an old ferry boat and sink it.
jc-bkny.bsky.social31Just, wow. Thank you for being there for all New Yorkers.
Dawn Xiana Moon81You all, I just teared up at this. In a time of rising fascism, here's a leader who calls even those in prison & forgotten his people, people he serves. More of this please.
Richard M. Nixon73Most of these guys make phone calls home. They have visitors.
Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀20Good god it’s refreshing to see some actual moral leadership
Good Trouble13"I was in prison, & you visited me": The Muslim mayor of NY continues to show more Christian values than all of the Repubs who love to shout about their supposed faith combined.
Sarah Kay5I can’t think, off the top of my head, of a single elected official who spent time with detainees, voluntarily, calling them part of the community, and spending time with them, shaking their hands, and spend time watching a football game. I may be wrong and do correct me if this happened before.
🇨🇦 Christine 🇨🇦4Can we just let him rule everything for a bit? I’d venture a guess he could make the world sing in harmony.
Strait but not Narrows of Hormuz4Oh, but does he do this for the AFL Grand Final? No? Curious…
Bart Harley Jarvis4It’s nice to see a politician that sees prisoners as people and not dollar signs for the private prison industry.
Comfort Cripes3This is amazing. This is beautiful. Believe in people. I
Poseidon baiano, consorte de Yemanjá3Uma coisa dessas me trás lágrimas aos olhos, é o básico de tratar as pessoas como pessoas.
I'm happy. Not because England lost but because their media would be intolerable in the event of a World Cup victory. Jingoism cranked up to new heights, Oasis music on every highlight reel, TV presenters being smug, hastily compiled TV specials about how football came home. We've been spared.
Henning Strack2Not just their media. Their fans would also be insufferable for at least a decade.
𝕃𝕒𝕦𝕣𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖𝕄1A glance thru the “today’s papers” section of the BBC website would show you the horrors that would await even if they got to the final …
DoonHameBuddie1That’s the thing. I don’t have any dislike towards English people but I detest the English media.
I don't really actively follow the World Cup so most of my experience with it is "this is the thing where every four years England gets hyped about winning and then loses"
Pike ☄️🏳️⚧️34It's okay I understand this intrinsically as a Mariners fan
LⱯuren9their big rallying song is about how being an England fan is an exercise in pain and futility, and includes the lyrics "30 years of hurt" bc the last time they had won when it was written was 30y ago, and its been another 30y since the song was written.
BB 🏳️⚧️🇲🇽(What if the whole world blossomed like a beautiful flower)2The English relationship to football is like if baseball became the most popular sport in the world but the US somehow got brutally lapped in talent by every country with a military dictatorship in 20th century
🚨 Harry Kane tells @theathleticfc.bsky.social too early to know if this was last World Cup with England but says Messi playing at 39 shows why he will “never put a limit on”. 32yo captain adds representing #England “my pride & joy; what love to do more than anything” www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...
Callum18I hope it is. He's never had the legs and always fades horribly as knockouts progress. An amazing player for England but the inability of managers to take him off when his legs go is inexplicable and costs us again and again. Tonight, at 1-0 up, he was a total waste of space.
BrighterBeat10If only he'd shown an ability to run and press in that 2nd half, even close to the amount of passion he says he has. He looked like a player with zero energy left. Kane was useless tonight, utterly useless. But we have no other world-class strikers, so he'll play in the '28 Euros.
Declan Healy9Harry Kane (who again was anonymous in a big game) staying on will damage England for the next 4 years and potentially longer as he pulls the ladder up behind him for future players.. and Messi he most definitely is not
duffmid.bsky.social4Maybe don't play golf next time with the guy who jinxes everything he touches
johnjohncph.bsky.social2Sat out the last two games
Stuart Dillon2We need to find an alternative, we didn't have a striker on the pitch for the second half
