I guess this was written before Lack choked up 7 goals in 14 minutes against the mighty Isles.

in 10 the Spaniards played like the Dutch are supposed to play, there was nary a dive by them despite the brutality of the Dutchmen's play and technical excellence that was devine. But in general I agree, unfortunately as FIFA covers the whole world and the natural state of affairs in it is corruption, diving is…

It is now, with the influx of Latin football. In the 1980s if you flop you get a kick into the rib cage from an English bullyboy. Thats how Ferguson won his first two European titles, with manly Scotish brutality.

Well sure, but the origin is European gutlessness. With a system of human referees that arent just generally incompetent but appear to be easily bribed the rewards for being a cowardly cheater far outweigh the condemnation from the free people of the world.

Thats what happens when Europeans become poisoned by soccers dive happy culture.

in the CL or the Premiership? Cuz ya'll aint scoring 3 goals in Germany.

took itself too seriously AND was idiotic, lets not forget that. "We can build super robots who can do anything so we MUST INVADE AUSTRALIA because of all the slum dwelling 3rd worlders there" or something.

Agree with 99% of the article except the 'how could a KOREAN end up in RUSSIA?' part. Actually, a lot of Koreans have and continue to live in Russia. One of the father's of Russia's rock scene is half-Korean (Victor Tsoi/Choi). There are still about 125,000 Koreans living in Russia but almost half a million that live…

If the stats nerds working for the Raptors can show real benefit of allowing their nerdy ways to work and the Raptors end up winning a championship I dont think any of them will give any fucks about being published or not. The book deal with Jonah Hill staring as them will more than make up for any nerd cred lost.

But the issue is — even for the consumers of this proprietary research — is whether its good science. All these guys who are investing heavily into analytics basically operate on a degree on trust that the nerds they put in charge actually know what they are doing. But look at recent scandals in similar but different…

Agreed. Now if they were shooting rabid bears charging at them, with bonuses points to athletes who lose a limb but still finish the race...

12000 a year is big money in some third tier Russian hellhole or India

Yes, the hype should be built up while release date pushed back, just like Daikatana !

until you get a good team, then its impossible to lose. limitless wage and transfer budgets and 5 star wonder kids out of your youth system all day long. and every ai team in your league copycats your set up.

Do they do requests? I'd like a Sim Slavery. You know, I start out as a upstanding English or Spanish lower gentry type, not enough money to inherit from my pa who has more kids than a hillbilly farmer in middle west virginia so I take what little capital I get and go about capturing blacks and then selling them. As…

Indeed. England is such a weird country. On one hand they love class structure and subservience to anyone superior to them, at this particular point in time it being Oil Russo-Arabs and the Chinese-Communist money launderers. On the other hand their proles are so vigorously anti-intellectual they make Sarah Palin look…

His problem is that he is too smart in a game that still favors working class, whether in class origin or sub-normal intelligence, in both the management side and the player side. He doenst know how to speak to the proles who actually rule this league and thats why he was moved around.

Thats too bad. He was supposed to be a moneyball type coach and the Spurs have done better under him than anyone else. Too bad though, sport is for the most part still run by inbred good old boys who couldnt turn on a spreadsheet if their life depended on it. Enjoy mediocrity, you deserve it. Maybe in another 10 years…

if the argentinians could sink two destroyers and two frigates the chinese could sink the entire british navy.

thats what bugs you? Not the comical idea that a British fleet was randomly assembling off the coast of China to do what? try to interdict a country that has long range surface to surface missiles? But if they said "If they dont apologize we'll keep them from buying London real estate, sending their children to public…