The Final Verdict: Was Argentina Protected?

The tournament is over. Spain are champions, and Argentina's run ends at the final whistle. Along the way the tribunal heard the whole file: penalties given and not given, a goal VAR took back, cards that never came, checks that cut both ways. Now the People's Tribunal asks its last question — taken together, across every exhibit, was Argentina protected at this World Cup? This is the verdict the archive will remember. Rule on the whole case.