Fwiw BuzzFeed Blue did a short video on this:

It’s not delivery, it’s racism.

Shut up and get back in your box.

Well, he was playing like it was this teams only chance to make it to the World Cup finals because, well, it was.

The French Goalie had 2 good ones and they both had a number of good punches/catches on crosses and corners that prevented good chances from ever really materializing. I think “out of their minds” is an exaggeration, but the goalkeeping on both sides was excellent and certainly contributed to the low score despite a…

I disagree on over and back. If the defense doesn’t want the team to just pass it around their back 3/back 4 they have the option to pressure the ball.

Yeah, in the NFL the degree to which you can “waste clock” is pretty well constrained, plus or minus a couple of seconds getting the play clock going. In soccer it’s much more nebulous. The idea that Soccer “can’t” have a clock that stops is frankly nonsense. They could do it if they wanted to. Yes, it would take some…

It’s really hard to top the no-call against Serbia when 2 Swiss players basically tackled a guy in the box, but yeah, that one wasn’t great either.

Literally scrolled down the the comments to see someone say that 7 Nation Army is a bad song. You’re doing God’s work sir.

I’ll say “the more I want to see it.” I don’t know if it’s going to be good or an overstuffed mess, but either way I expect to be entertained.

To be fair, in *this* instance (and in a lot of these XXXWhileBlack stories), the police correctly sized up the situation and behaved appropriately. Not to minimize the many many horrible incidents when they did not of course.

Don’t you see? It’s the perfect crime! 

“You are inviting a sunami of dependant people now. For what?”

To be fair, the concept of organized religion strikes me as “hugely fucked up”

You can make a reasonable case from a narrative point of view that Emily Blunt is actually the antagonist in Sicario if you use the definition of protagonist that “they drive the plot forward” and antagonist “tries to stop the protagonist from progressing”. *Usually* by this definition the protagonist is the good…

My memory is that usually the duds tend to be in the first round as teams tend to be trying really really hard to not lose. In the second and third rounds there are some teams that *must* win, which opens stuff up a little more.

Senegal also wins the “most awesome looking coach” award by a wide margin (sorry England, though the vest is cute). He looks like a bad ass vampire lord.

I mean, can anyone prove to me he’s *not* doing this? Seems only fair to consider both sides.

“I don’t think marrying a pampered singer-corporation is the best idea.”

Eh, I think it’s more “tradition” than anything else. There wouldn’t be any more clock stoppages than in basketball or american football and american college soccer already has a clock that stops i believe. If it were up to me, I’d change it to a clock that stops, but it’s really a minor nitpick and not a major…