England head coach Thomas Tuchel has delivered a stinging, joke-laden response to FIFA’s extraordinary decision to overturn Folarin Balogun’s red card suspension — suggesting that perhaps calling US President Donald Trump at the White House is now the appropriate starting point for getting a ban lifted. The controversy erupted ahead of the United States’ Last 16 clash against Belgium, after FIFA announced — in an unprecedented move not seen at a World Cup since 1962 — that Balogun’s automatic one-match ban had been lifted following direct political lobbying from President Trump.
