“Ball don’t lie.” This phrase, originally attributed to NBA star Rasheed Wallace, comes from American basketball culture and implies that, no matter what the referees or back-office bureaucrats do to intervene in the game, the ball will end up where it should. If it goes through the net, the sporting gods wanted it to happen. The best team wins. Always. In the 57th minute of America’s game against Belgium, when US keeper Matt Freese came out of his box to deal with a long ball, only to have it stolen from his feet and fired into the back of the net for Belgium’s third goal — when that happened, Wallace’s sense of sporting justice was surely validated. Yes, Donald Trump may have personally intervened with Fifa to get Folarin Balogun, America’s star striker, an exception on the red card he’d