Football fans in US being caught up in immigration raids around FIFA’s Club World Cup take evasive action, some decide to stay away.

A far cry from: “Everyone’s welcome” ⚽️ 👮

Soccer Fans Fear Being Targets of U.S. Immigration Raids www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/w...

FOUR European trophies, not incidentally. Suck it up. Stick that in your ‘yeah buts’. ‘If we’re not in Europe, we’re nothing.’ We’re something.

It’s quite a profound moment, really. Wonderful football moments 17 years apart, meaning that you inevitably think about everything that you’ve seen and done between then and now.

1, which in turn led to 2, followed closely by 3.

Hopefully someone receives a nice surprise email or phone call from Spurs over the coming hours and gets to go to a final they didn't think they would, enjoy. As for me, devastated probably too strong a word but somewhere between that and gutted. #coys

In our moment of happiness, remembering the Bradford fire and those who died 40 years ago.

Many years ago I trained as a member of our local authority's disaster response team. The trainer showed the fire brigade film not shown to the public. Never forgotten it. Most tragic thing I've ever seen

Ange coming out swinging and all strength to his Aussie elbows. This stuff needs saying - in part because the club are too meek to do it (at least publicly). This is very different to Conte's rants, which were all about him and absolvement of blame. Want to hear more of this.

I have the flu and am admittedly in a dreadful mood, but playing well when you’re 0-2 down doesn’t mean much. It’s easier.

The gamestate changes, the players have nothing to lose, and all the competitive tension is gone.

@sebsb.bsky.social Jesus mate, don’t think what you said on VFTL would happen so quickly!

30 or more years of going Chelsea away, tonight maybe the tipping point for me, Americans asking questions about ‘soccer’ dozens of empty seats in the away end and a huge apathy amongst hard core fans, is it worth the effort?

Ah, welcome to the sometimes madness of dog ownership, will occasionally drive you up the wall to start with, but the rewards are massive, unconditional love and loyalty, enjoy.

I've had a couple of pints but.......something, something....could do a better job than whoever is today's scapegoat. #coys

Find it hard to see how after holding up the team for much if the last few months, Archie Gray doesn't get into this team, still what do I know, just standing in the cold waiting to be disappointed again! #coys

See what is meant, when fans object to how the club is being run? This isn't a small or trivial thing. If you value your heritage (and the club trades off this), cherish what gave birth to football clubs in the first place, then this isn't just some petty row over branding semantics. It matters.

Need a leader, especially in a game like this, sadly lacking in not only this team, but the whole squad.

Needs looking at who decided to take him on again, cheap(ish) option, simply getting more of what they saw last season.

Would have e been infinitely worse today if it wasn't for him, and believe me,I never expected to say that, so fair play to him.

Whisper it quietly but Forster has been pretty good, actually. Fair play.

I was thinking this today, then I wondered if they did it so well because they only do a few games (relatively) a season?

Congratulations, they can be great fun together, although the cat has been known to just slap the dog and run off!

Massive away win for the little fella.