As someone who was actually there, they were checking abonos at the exits of the metro (Nuevos Ministerios). After the Paris attacks this was expected. Don’t fuck with the National Police or Civil Guard in Spain (local and municipal no problem). I’ve been to most matches and this doesn’t difer from normal treatment.…

I’m “a Real Madrid”? What the fuck does that mean? You know who I hate: Florentino Peréz; he overpays for players and is a fickle bitch (and I know this because I also have to deal with stupid legal issues his equally capricious company, ACS, causes to good faith companies in Spain and abroad); and Franco, because he…

Hot take. We’re all fascist supporters. Got ya.... You wouldn’t know the difference between JNR and División Azul if they knocked on your door in the middle of the night. You’ve got your narrative and that’s it.

As a lawyer in Spain, I can confirm that Florentino Peréz, a man I loathe, does in fact pay large sums of money for players as consideration for their services. As a lawyer in Spain, I can confirm that those players pay their tax bills. As a Spanish resident, I pay taxes. As a Spanish resident and lawyer, I can…

We (RM) have been inconsistent and you never know who's going to show up on match day, but when they win they totally deserve it. And when they lose, they totally deserve it and are booed by their supporters as well. In the past three months they've started to pull it back together. To suggest that either Atlético or…

When I'm sitting in the Bernabéu and our side is stomping, I always think about him.

Well not for dads everywhere. Not in George Will’s denim-less household. I read the article to which Drew linked. I don’t think the old man stench will ever get off me. He has one pair of jeans he bought so he could attend a party? That’s the one time he wore jeans? And he condescendingly speaks down to those who have…

I’m American but have lived nearly half of my life in Spain. Spain winning the World Cup was by far the most amazing sports memory I have. They had never won the World Cup and people were suffering from the financial crisis and the bitter separatist issues (Catalans, Basques). When the goal was scored, in extra time,…

Not true; nothing untoward was said about Cristiano Ronaldo.

Yeah, nobody other than crazy people would think of it as anything other than the result of the way the leagues are set up. As a socio abonado of Real Madrid, we’re calculating what we would need to have happen, but nobody in their right mind would say, “oh, I wish you would have lost the last match away so that we…

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For the record, as someone who also went to a top ten law school (but fled the country almost two decades ago), being in law school with a gunner like AD would also drive me away from the profession. Hell, we had the managing partner of a huge BigLaw firm come and basically tell us we’d all become alcoholics with the…

Definitely not the first black and Blues hockey fan. Even Marta Valramova knows that.

You can enjoy both. The development of a play in soccer (openings, closing of spaces, routes, movement of defenders and others in response to changes) is slower, but no less complex than hockey (and I would argue even more complex). I say this as someone who grew up playing hockey in Montana, but who is a season…

Dana White limits sponsorship money, but “that’s another point.” But, is it? If I work work fixed and variable remuneration and my boss limits the latter, to his benefit, how is that another point not to be addressed in a topic concerning remuneration?

I’m gonna need a bigger codpiece, just sayin’. Literally just saying it.

As someone who grew up in Montana, I idolized the mushers. Anyone who hasn’t heard the short “How to do Everything” podcast about a musher’s close call should stop what you're doing listen to it now: http://www.npr.org/sections/waitw…

“Gawt dammit, I thought you said you had always wanted to get into corn-HOLE. Well, this is awkward.”

Sometimes he even lets his guests talk!

Nobody’s stopping the competition from taking advantage of any ostensible advantage he may have.