His eerie calmness is what keeps me going, but also has me incredibly worried. Whether it’s him to ManU, or him to Real (which seems to be dissipating because apparently Mou has already peed on that bush), I can’t help but feed into the endless European soccer gossip dumpster fire.

EDGAR FUCKING MARTINEZ. Finally.

Welp, Poch’s philosophy of sticking with a cohesive squad and literally not spending money whatsoever has officially caught up with us.

Not sure how Tottenham doesn’t seem like they want to finish Top 4 when they were pretty clearly head and shoulders above everyone else in that race.

How long until ESPN goes full “this is a Kyrie problem, not a Celtics problem,” and makes him out to be this inscrutable pariah that is ruining* a great, young core and coach?

Yeah, but will Koulibaly make the same faces?

Incredibly gifted when he’s asked to push forward. His crosses and through balls have been pretty damn amazing all year long, and it was definitely boosted by how well he played for England last summer.

Yeah, that little touch kept us alive. 

An 8 point deficit to Europa?

Yesterday was painful as a Spurs fan because De Gea played like he was 8 feet wide.

I’m in that weird camp that believes Real just turns it on during CL matches and wants to watch the world burn.

Legitimately curious to see how the English teams fare...

The clear issue with Holden and Nash was you could feel the awkwardness. I understand that Nash has very little studio time, but allowing him to make his booth debut during a CL match because his favorite club (Tottenham) was part of it, was idiocy.

He was pretty dreadful in the World Cup, too. 

Only thing worse than Kyle Walker-Peters’ first touch on that pass is the ABSOLUTELY DREADFUL commentary by Stu Holden and Steve Nash (yes, that Steve Nash) on the TNT broadcast. 

I definitely phrased it incorrectly, in my original response. I did mention his dWAR numbers, but left the other side of the spectrum out for the sake of the people who actually vote in this matter.

Oh man, Tony Fernandez. Talk about a dude who gets lost in a lot of conversations.

All the more opportunity to marathon each and every episode of Chopped.

This gives me another opportunity to make the same statement I’ve been making for (essentially) a decade:

Vizquel is that weird limbo sorta vote in my head. He was such an amazing defensive shortstop for SO. FRICKING. LONG. Only posted a negative dWAR once in his career, when he was 43 years old.