Billy is going to make this the central focal point of his upcoming 10k word scathing indictment of the sad state of MLS coaching.

We know what we've said before, but it's different now. And good.

The uninformed opinions of millennials who weren't pottytrained before 1994, have no idea what American soccer fans have had to endure to get to mainstream acceptance and a viable domestic league, who claim that you can turn MLS into a reasonable facsimile of a top flight European league with a few easy tweaks are…

The goal before that was set up by six passes, and finished with a great cross and header, and the obligatory Obafemi Martins handsprings. More conventional, but just as pretty I thought. Here is the second half of that sequence:

You are so fucking annoying about MLS.

Billy Haisley:

I'm sorry, you're not allowed to use "MLS" on Deadspin without also mentioning "relegation." It's on page one of the Style Guide.

Thanks man!!! Really looking forward to spending my Saturday drinking beer and watching third-tier Hitballwithfoot at the stadium with my fellow philistines!!!

I agree and am pretty stoked myself!!!! I think the Sea Dogs definitely have to be the favorites, but you never know with the RubberDucks bullpen!

Just want to say I'm really digging all your MLS coverage before the season starts. It's pretty awesome how you guys realize that covering the domestic league is the best way to grow interest in the sport stateside.

Sure, it would have been easy for you to fall into periodically fluffing an unusually pedestrian season…

I would enjoy his soccer coverage a lot more if he wasn't essentially running a Barca fan blog under Deadspin's masthead.

I would enjoy it if there wasn't this insane insistence on superlatives as facts. "No argument for anyone other than Barça having the strongest forward line on the planet." Bale-Benzema-Ronaldo? Ribery-Muller-Robben? Sure there's an argument, a fun argument at that. In the Coutinho article from whenever that was,…

I would enjoy your soccer coverage a lot more if it wasn't so breathlessly OTT.

After some furious googling and more research into the confederate flag than a northern jew should ever do on a sunday morning, I'm still stumped.

This is exactly why I can't stand college football. Refuse to watch it. The route running? Puhlease. Watching a far superior Jaguars/Browns game in December is where you'll find me.

You are referring to your own comment, I take it.

The thing about Arsenal is that they always try to walk it in.

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