I did watch, but I generally tune Alexi Lalas out and I don’t watch the half-time show.

Simeone earned his send-off as well by walking onto the field to yell at the ref.

The wheels falling off the bus and the team being stranded at the airport, forced to forfeit?

He stepped on the guy’s ankle after the ball was gone. Is that a yellow normally? Yeah, it is. Why wouldn’t it be in this case?

They’ve survived having Lovren on the field in the CL so far. What’s the worst that could happen? So long as Salah isn’t injured they still have a good chance.

Just think what the scoreline would have been if the keepers were swapped though! You have to look on the bright sides when selling someone on a faulty product.

According to the recent furor, good officiating means letting obvious things go so as not to hinder the story. Must be another referee with a bin for a heart. /s

If Roma goes through on away goals with another 3-0 at home it’ll be impressive. Liverpool probably has a better chance than Roma against Madrid though.

Next will be Mourinho.

He didn’t have a whole lot to do with this. Many Arsenal fans are gonna be in for a shock next year when the team still regularly falls short of expectations.

Are you kidding me? Mustafi is awesome at being a big dumb oaf. It’s the defending that he isn’t very good at.

Koscielny, Ospina and Mustafi all managed to shit themselves perfectly in sync with the play. It’s almost magical.

Both yellow cards were yellow cards. The first one was obvious and the second was harsh, maybe, but still correct. Coming in late and standing on a guy’s ankle is a booking if you aren’t already on a yellow and should still be one if you are.

I don’t think billy actually believes half of what he writes. This makes the excessive length of his articles all the more infuriating, but would also explain the very limited, binary nature of his soccer takes and the scarcity of soccer topics he actually has takes about.

The irony of foreign sports leagues being far more cut throat and capitalistic than American ones is fairly amusing.

“Winning everything” is not the same as winning a few things and losing others. They didn’t win everything this season, nor last.

They didn’t win La Liga or the Copa del Rey.

Goaltending was a joke back then, but Grezky played well through the ‘90s as well. The fact that he wasn’t big or particularly fast makes his stats seem weirder.

Just basic numbers show that Wayne Gretzky > LeBron James.

It’s even nuttier, because Gretzky almost signed with the Blue Jays and skipped out on hockey, but his dad talked him out of it.