It's a good podcast, but they have a lot of little recurring inside jokes that I find a bit annoyingly cute, that's all. They're also a bit ass-kissy with media types. Football Ramble is better.

This just makes me wonder what lies you tell the guys you're cruising at bars that you're not owning up to in this space. Are you really a competitive Scrabble player? Is it true that you're a highly trained practitioner of Brazilian Jujitsu?

good point! Another thing, sort of related: Everton loses very infrequently, but also draws a ton. Moyes is very conservative and risk averse, which shows in the results. Known bottler of big matches, especially away. Very seldom wins an away game at a top club. United, on the other hand, always seems to grind out a…

I think we might see Nigel Adkins at Everton next year, which could be a pretty good fit. In any event things will be tough if you lose Baines, Fellaini, and others (Jagielka? Anichebe?) over the summer. Everton hasn't experienced any instability in ages and it's a question how everyone will react to it.

Dude Ade was wrongly called offside on a play like two minutes after the goal that could easily have resulted in another goal. These things even out. To say nothing of the travesty last year because I don't pathologically harbor bitterness about unfair results, I really don't.

Although I usually find it a bit too cute, the Men in Blazers podcast had a really good critical discussion of Moyes at United today. Although there are obviously a lot of reasons why the appointment looks good on paper, there are also some things that should give United supporters pause.

It's not surprising to find a Chelsea fan responding to my sincere apology with nothing but class.

Absolutely. It's actually a bit disappointing to see an American writer on Deadspin succumbing to this very predictable, very british story-inventing tendency. I would expect a little bit more contrarian or offbeat take.

via Men In Blazers, just because

I apologize that my short correction offended you. It was not my intention to be a dick but I realize in retrospect that I should have been more considerate of your feelings.

I'm not policing grammar, this a mistake that a lot of people new to soccer make and I thought I'd help you out. It's not as though I insulted you, touchy guy.

"Offside" you mean.

Fair enough, brah.

"Tottenham need help. They have to hope Chelsea or Arsenal drop points, and they can't leave any of their own on the table. "

Adebayor is capable of contributing so much more than Defoe, it's really a shame that he has had such difficulty getting into form this season.

"He might leave at the end of the season regardless, but surely will if there isn't Champions League soccer to be played next year."

Would you have subbed on Lamps? He played 90 minutes four days ago and is old as dirt...

He stayed down so long I started to think he actually was injured.

I hope this match gets the full treatment from (scumbag gooner) Greg Howard as it was a terrific contest with some excellent goals. Adebayor's was a beauty as well as a complete shock, obviously:

Cups are typically parallel competitions that have to impact of what domestic league a team is part of.