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Club World Cup 2025: Man City must 'suffer' in Orlando heat, says Pep Guardiola
Manchester City must be prepared to
www.bbc.com
Again and again, we see managers and players talking about the dangers of the CWC heat, with advertising for heavily polluting companies lined up behind them! 😬🤦♂️
It's time to acknowledge this link...and then break it! 🖇
That means taking football's megaphone out of the hands of big polluters ✈ 🛢 🌎
It's time to acknowledge this link...and then break it! 🖇
That means taking football's megaphone out of the hands of big polluters ✈ 🛢 🌎
If you wanna do super unpopular things, such as blocking climate action, you better buy some soft power.
This is a big part of the story of Saudi’s role in football.
This is a big part of the story of Saudi’s role in football.
$170,000 a minute: Why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
The desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story by me
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
The desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story by me
1/7
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
If you wanna do super unpopular things, such as blocking climate action, you better buy some soft power.
This is a big part of the story of Saudi’s role in football.
This is a big part of the story of Saudi’s role in football.
📣Join Fossil Free Football as an intern in 2026!
🔴 With the mega-polluting '26 WC approaching, it's a great time to join the fight against fossil fuels in football! ⚽
🔴 We're looking for a climate campaign intern to contribute to our research and comms 💪
🔴 All info below! 👇
🤝 Please share!
🔴 With the mega-polluting '26 WC approaching, it's a great time to join the fight against fossil fuels in football! ⚽
🔴 We're looking for a climate campaign intern to contribute to our research and comms 💪
🔴 All info below! 👇
🤝 Please share!
November 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
📣Join Fossil Free Football as an intern in 2026!
🔴 With the mega-polluting '26 WC approaching, it's a great time to join the fight against fossil fuels in football! ⚽
🔴 We're looking for a climate campaign intern to contribute to our research and comms 💪
🔴 All info below! 👇
🤝 Please share!
🔴 With the mega-polluting '26 WC approaching, it's a great time to join the fight against fossil fuels in football! ⚽
🔴 We're looking for a climate campaign intern to contribute to our research and comms 💪
🔴 All info below! 👇
🤝 Please share!
🔴 Players and fans are genuinely concerned about dangerous heat at the World Cup 👇
🔴 The world's biggest oil company will have its branding all over this tournament 😳
🔴Perhaps FIFA should take extreme weather seriously instead of embracing the polluters making it worse? 🌡️
🔴 The world's biggest oil company will have its branding all over this tournament 😳
🔴Perhaps FIFA should take extreme weather seriously instead of embracing the polluters making it worse? 🌡️
2026 World Cup: Reece James hopes Fifa considers later kick-off times to help combat extreme heat
England defender Reece James hopes Fifa will consider moving kick-off times for next year's World Cup to help players deal with potentially stifling summer temperatures.
www.bbc.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:42 AM
🔴 Players and fans are genuinely concerned about dangerous heat at the World Cup 👇
🔴 The world's biggest oil company will have its branding all over this tournament 😳
🔴Perhaps FIFA should take extreme weather seriously instead of embracing the polluters making it worse? 🌡️
🔴 The world's biggest oil company will have its branding all over this tournament 😳
🔴Perhaps FIFA should take extreme weather seriously instead of embracing the polluters making it worse? 🌡️
🔴 Keira Walsh speaks out after another grim ACL injury 👇
🔴 Players are being put in danger by the saturated fixture list
🔴 Execs must listen to the players, fans and managers calling for a revised football calendar!
🔴 Players are being put in danger by the saturated fixture list
🔴 Execs must listen to the players, fans and managers calling for a revised football calendar!
Keira Walsh: Governing bodies must listen to players over fixture schedule
Governing bodies must address the congested fixture schedule, says England midfielder Keira Walsh after Arsenal defender Katie Reid is ruled out for season with injury.
www.bbc.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
🔴 Keira Walsh speaks out after another grim ACL injury 👇
🔴 Players are being put in danger by the saturated fixture list
🔴 Execs must listen to the players, fans and managers calling for a revised football calendar!
🔴 Players are being put in danger by the saturated fixture list
🔴 Execs must listen to the players, fans and managers calling for a revised football calendar!
“We see that the biggest and most important football clubs are lagging well behind the wider European business community in the basics of even setting a net zero target.”
The biggest clubs in Europe
Part 1: Progress so far on net zero
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
“We see that the biggest and most important football clubs are lagging well behind the wider European business community in the basics of even setting a net zero target.”
🔴 Instead of toxic plastics, millions of young people enthusiastically think of Man. United when they hear the word 'Ineos'.
🔴 Much more scrutiny is needed on the real impacts of this sportswashing operation 👇
🔴 Much more scrutiny is needed on the real impacts of this sportswashing operation 👇
Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘will cause more deaths than jobs created’
Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:43 AM
🔴 Instead of toxic plastics, millions of young people enthusiastically think of Man. United when they hear the word 'Ineos'.
🔴 Much more scrutiny is needed on the real impacts of this sportswashing operation 👇
🔴 Much more scrutiny is needed on the real impacts of this sportswashing operation 👇
🟢 Forest Green put our climate, and therefore people, at the centre of everything they do 🌍
🟢 Now they're leading in another way: bringing the joy and belonging of football to more locals with a mental health prescription program 👇
🟢 Respect to FGR for showing there's a better way of doing things 👏
🟢 Now they're leading in another way: bringing the joy and belonging of football to more locals with a mental health prescription program 👇
🟢 Respect to FGR for showing there's a better way of doing things 👏
Forest Green Rovers: Can match tickets help with mental health?
Forest Green Rovers manager Robbie Savage opens up about his mental health, as his club get involved in a scheme to help treat symptoms of depression.
www.bbc.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:06 AM
🟢 Forest Green put our climate, and therefore people, at the centre of everything they do 🌍
🟢 Now they're leading in another way: bringing the joy and belonging of football to more locals with a mental health prescription program 👇
🟢 Respect to FGR for showing there's a better way of doing things 👏
🟢 Now they're leading in another way: bringing the joy and belonging of football to more locals with a mental health prescription program 👇
🟢 Respect to FGR for showing there's a better way of doing things 👏
🔴 After La Liga backed down, it's time for Italian football bosses to admit that playing on the other side of the world is crazy...
🔴 Parma fans joined the many others in vocal opposition - the banner reads: 'Shall we bring families back to the stadium... in Australia?'
🔴 Parma fans joined the many others in vocal opposition - the banner reads: 'Shall we bring families back to the stadium... in Australia?'
October 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
🔴 After La Liga backed down, it's time for Italian football bosses to admit that playing on the other side of the world is crazy...
🔴 Parma fans joined the many others in vocal opposition - the banner reads: 'Shall we bring families back to the stadium... in Australia?'
🔴 Parma fans joined the many others in vocal opposition - the banner reads: 'Shall we bring families back to the stadium... in Australia?'
🔴 @maddyorr.bsky.social joins players David Wheeler and Hector Bellerin in describing the dangers players and fans face and the lack of leadership from FIFA 😬
🔴 The tournament will send a literal 'dangerous message' by beaming advertising from the world's biggest oil company to billions next year 🤦♂️
🔴 The tournament will send a literal 'dangerous message' by beaming advertising from the world's biggest oil company to billions next year 🤦♂️
2026 World Cup: Tournament sends 'dangerous message' on climate
In eight months the 2026 World Cup will make history as the biggest single sporting event - but not everyone is celebrating.
www.bbc.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
🔴 @maddyorr.bsky.social joins players David Wheeler and Hector Bellerin in describing the dangers players and fans face and the lack of leadership from FIFA 😬
🔴 The tournament will send a literal 'dangerous message' by beaming advertising from the world's biggest oil company to billions next year 🤦♂️
🔴 The tournament will send a literal 'dangerous message' by beaming advertising from the world's biggest oil company to billions next year 🤦♂️
🔴 La Liga forced to cancel league match in the US!
🔴 When players and fans speak up and take action, they win 💪
🔴 Football's bosses must recognise that their expansionist vision is unwanted. Time to prioritise the interests of the real people who make the game possible 🤝🌍
🔴 When players and fans speak up and take action, they win 💪
🔴 Football's bosses must recognise that their expansionist vision is unwanted. Time to prioritise the interests of the real people who make the game possible 🤝🌍
Barcelona in Miami: La Liga cancels match against Villarreal after criticism
La Liga cancels plans to hold Barcelona v Villarreal in Miami in December after recent protests and backlash.
www.bbc.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:18 AM
🔴 La Liga forced to cancel league match in the US!
🔴 When players and fans speak up and take action, they win 💪
🔴 Football's bosses must recognise that their expansionist vision is unwanted. Time to prioritise the interests of the real people who make the game possible 🤝🌍
🔴 When players and fans speak up and take action, they win 💪
🔴 Football's bosses must recognise that their expansionist vision is unwanted. Time to prioritise the interests of the real people who make the game possible 🤝🌍
Reposted by Fossil Free Football
One year ago, I joined 130+ female footballers calling on FIFA to drop Aramco. 365 days later — still no response.
Big oil and human rights abuses are not the future our game deserves.
athletesoftheworld.org/fifa-x-saudi...
@fossilfreefootball.bsky.social
Big oil and human rights abuses are not the future our game deserves.
athletesoftheworld.org/fifa-x-saudi...
@fossilfreefootball.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
One year ago, I joined 130+ female footballers calling on FIFA to drop Aramco. 365 days later — still no response.
Big oil and human rights abuses are not the future our game deserves.
athletesoftheworld.org/fifa-x-saudi...
@fossilfreefootball.bsky.social
Big oil and human rights abuses are not the future our game deserves.
athletesoftheworld.org/fifa-x-saudi...
@fossilfreefootball.bsky.social
🔴 La Liga players stand still to send a clear message on playing league games abroad 👇
🔴 Execs are squeezing the game for more and more cash; now is the time to push back 💪
🔴 Players have the power to stop the endless expansion agenda and fans will back them all the way 👏
🔴 Execs are squeezing the game for more and more cash; now is the time to push back 💪
🔴 Players have the power to stop the endless expansion agenda and fans will back them all the way 👏
Barcelona in Miami: More players stand still as La Liga protests continue
Players refuse to move for the first 15 seconds of matches in La Liga on Saturday as protests at the Spanish league's decision to stage a game in Miami continued.
www.bbc.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
🔴 La Liga players stand still to send a clear message on playing league games abroad 👇
🔴 Execs are squeezing the game for more and more cash; now is the time to push back 💪
🔴 Players have the power to stop the endless expansion agenda and fans will back them all the way 👏
🔴 Execs are squeezing the game for more and more cash; now is the time to push back 💪
🔴 Players have the power to stop the endless expansion agenda and fans will back them all the way 👏
🔴 Terrible stories out of Central and Eastern Mexico in recent days 👇
🔴 Scores of people have been killed by flooding and extreme heat in the country in the last 2 years 🇲🇽
🔴 In the build up to big oil's World Cup next summer, we'll continue to highlight extreme weather events in host countries 🛢️
🔴 Scores of people have been killed by flooding and extreme heat in the country in the last 2 years 🇲🇽
🔴 In the build up to big oil's World Cup next summer, we'll continue to highlight extreme weather events in host countries 🛢️
Mexico floods leave at least 64 dead and 65 missing, authorities say
Overflowing rivers swept through entire villages, triggered landslides and swept away roads and bridges
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
🔴 Terrible stories out of Central and Eastern Mexico in recent days 👇
🔴 Scores of people have been killed by flooding and extreme heat in the country in the last 2 years 🇲🇽
🔴 In the build up to big oil's World Cup next summer, we'll continue to highlight extreme weather events in host countries 🛢️
🔴 Scores of people have been killed by flooding and extreme heat in the country in the last 2 years 🇲🇽
🔴 In the build up to big oil's World Cup next summer, we'll continue to highlight extreme weather events in host countries 🛢️
The FIFA World Cup Aramco ads are everywhere.
Read more on Aramco’s misleading rebranding here 👇
Read more on Aramco’s misleading rebranding here 👇
Exclusive: Ad Giant IPG Accused of Breaking 'Industry First' Climate Policy With Work for World’s Biggest Oil Company
Firm’s top London consultants planned to help Saudi Aramco influence policymakers, leaked documents reveal.
www.desmog.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The FIFA World Cup Aramco ads are everywhere.
Read more on Aramco’s misleading rebranding here 👇
Read more on Aramco’s misleading rebranding here 👇
Reposted by Fossil Free Football
"For Infantino, anything is possible, so long as it is sponsored by Coca-Cola and Aramco" @karimzidan.com
Gianni Infantino, Peacemaker
Infantino’s diplomacy is not the diplomacy of treaties and compromises. It is the diplomacy of branding and spectacle. Where others see conflict, he sees opportunity.
www.sportspolitika.news
October 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
"For Infantino, anything is possible, so long as it is sponsored by Coca-Cola and Aramco" @karimzidan.com
🔴 FIFA’s embrace of big polluters is part of the reason that summer football is increasingly untenable…
🔴 Their next move? Just abandon the summer tournament tradition entirely 😬
🔴 Their next move? Just abandon the summer tournament tradition entirely 😬
Gianni Infantino keeping ‘open mind’ about moving World Cups from summer
President Gianni Infantino says Fifa wants to optimise the football calendar, including switching the World Cup away from its traditional slot
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
🔴 FIFA’s embrace of big polluters is part of the reason that summer football is increasingly untenable…
🔴 Their next move? Just abandon the summer tournament tradition entirely 😬
🔴 Their next move? Just abandon the summer tournament tradition entirely 😬
🔴 FIFA's big squeeze makes them rich at the expense of players and the planet 👇
🔴 Football needs a revised schedule that respects the clear physical limits of all involved ⚽
🔴 Football needs a revised schedule that respects the clear physical limits of all involved ⚽
Club World Cup has left an injury trail that is damaging football. But will anyone listen? | Jacob Steinberg
Response to strained schedule has been more football than ever, and a danger that the best will have nothing left to give at the World Cup
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🔴 FIFA's big squeeze makes them rich at the expense of players and the planet 👇
🔴 Football needs a revised schedule that respects the clear physical limits of all involved ⚽
🔴 Football needs a revised schedule that respects the clear physical limits of all involved ⚽
🔴 Adrien Rabiot is not happy about being forced to fly to Australia for an Italian league game 👇
🔴 He said it was “crazy” and “absurd”. We’ll add “environmentally disastrous”!
🔴 He said it was “crazy” and “absurd”. We’ll add “environmentally disastrous”!
Serie A plan to play game in Australia is ‘crazy, absurd’ – Milan’s Adrien Rabiot
The Italian top flight is hopeful of playing February’s league fixture between Milan and Como in Perth, Australia.
www.nytimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🔴 Adrien Rabiot is not happy about being forced to fly to Australia for an Italian league game 👇
🔴 He said it was “crazy” and “absurd”. We’ll add “environmentally disastrous”!
🔴 He said it was “crazy” and “absurd”. We’ll add “environmentally disastrous”!
Reposted by Fossil Free Football
Criticism of FIFA’s Aramco sponsorship amplifies ahead of 2026 World Cup www.insideworldfootball.com/2025/10/02/c...
Criticism of FIFA’s Aramco sponsorship amplifies ahead of 2026 World Cup - Inside World Football
October 2 – Various rights groups have called out FIFA and other sporting governing bodies over their sponsorship deals with Saudi state oil company Aramco.
Football’s world governing body, as well as...
www.insideworldfootball.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Criticism of FIFA’s Aramco sponsorship amplifies ahead of 2026 World Cup www.insideworldfootball.com/2025/10/02/c...
🔴 FIFA’s classic summer tournament model falls apart in a much hotter world 🫠
🔴 Fiddling with kickoff times just won’t cut it 😬
🔴 Taking heat seriously means ending football’s embrace of big oil ❌
🔴 Fiddling with kickoff times just won’t cut it 😬
🔴 Taking heat seriously means ending football’s embrace of big oil ❌
2026 World Cup: Fifa likely to schedule matches featuring European nations after midnight UK time
Fifa are likely to schedule World Cup matches involving major European nations after midnight UK time next year in an effort to combat heat issues that affected the recent Club World Cup.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
🔴 FIFA’s classic summer tournament model falls apart in a much hotter world 🫠
🔴 Fiddling with kickoff times just won’t cut it 😬
🔴 Taking heat seriously means ending football’s embrace of big oil ❌
🔴 Fiddling with kickoff times just won’t cut it 😬
🔴 Taking heat seriously means ending football’s embrace of big oil ❌
With Saudi Arabia’s fossil fuels making it too hot to play football outside, investing in EAFC only makes sense right?
#EAFC
#EAFC
Gaming giant Electronic Arts bought in unprecedented $55bn deal
EA is known for making best-selling games such as EA FC, The Sims and Mass Effect.
www.bbc.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
With Saudi Arabia’s fossil fuels making it too hot to play football outside, investing in EAFC only makes sense right?
#EAFC
#EAFC
Football's endless growth agenda in numbers 👇
🔴Mat Ryan travelled more than 169,000km last season
🔴40 year old Modric played 76 times
🔴Lamine Yamal played 130 matches before turning 18
A revised calendar is needed to ease the pressure on players and our planet ⚽🌍
🔴Mat Ryan travelled more than 169,000km last season
🔴40 year old Modric played 76 times
🔴Lamine Yamal played 130 matches before turning 18
A revised calendar is needed to ease the pressure on players and our planet ⚽🌍
Football player welfare: Fifpro report critical of extra workload
Top-level footballers' wellbeing is being put at risk by excessive demands, says international players' union Fifpro.
www.bbc.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Football's endless growth agenda in numbers 👇
🔴Mat Ryan travelled more than 169,000km last season
🔴40 year old Modric played 76 times
🔴Lamine Yamal played 130 matches before turning 18
A revised calendar is needed to ease the pressure on players and our planet ⚽🌍
🔴Mat Ryan travelled more than 169,000km last season
🔴40 year old Modric played 76 times
🔴Lamine Yamal played 130 matches before turning 18
A revised calendar is needed to ease the pressure on players and our planet ⚽🌍
The beautiful game by train ❤️💚
200 years today since the world's first passenger railway journey in the north east of England. Here's a look at the history of railways and English football: including the formation of Man Utd, football specials & specially-built stations that were barely used.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/665...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/665...
Football and trains: The vital role railways have played in the English game
Michael Cox looks at how the passenger train has been fundamental to English football for almost two centuries
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The beautiful game by train ❤️💚
Amazing match between Atlético Madrid and Real Madrid in one of Europe’s capitals most affected by burning fossil fuels: Madrid.
And both teams sponsored by a polluting airline. Madness.
And both teams sponsored by a polluting airline. Madness.
🔴 14' Robin Le Normand
⚪️ 25' Kylian Mbappe
⚪️ 36' Arda Guler
🔴 45+3' Alexander Sorloth
Four goals shared between Atletico Madrid & Real Madrid in the first half of today's derby.
⚪️ 25' Kylian Mbappe
⚪️ 36' Arda Guler
🔴 45+3' Alexander Sorloth
Four goals shared between Atletico Madrid & Real Madrid in the first half of today's derby.
September 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Amazing match between Atlético Madrid and Real Madrid in one of Europe’s capitals most affected by burning fossil fuels: Madrid.
And both teams sponsored by a polluting airline. Madness.
And both teams sponsored by a polluting airline. Madness.
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Full story. 👇
Pro Climbers Urge IFSC to Swear Off Fossil Fuel Ties
An open letter associated with the Cool Down network of sports for climate action asks the IFSC and climbers to swear off fossil fuel ties.
www.climbing.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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