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Good question, Jean-Paul Sarte.

Have to say...She's gotta nice mullet.

I think Gawker needs to be even-handed as possible when cases with this set of criteria present themselves. When a case is quickly dropped, and there's a side order from the suitemate about the alleged victim's bragging about her ability to spin a tale.

So much context missing here.
1. When Canada has previously hosted FIFA tournaments (men's and women's, albeit at lower age levels), no one has made an issue of the turf.
2. Zimbabwe was the only other country to bid on this thing. You think you're going to find a better-quality pitch there?
3. The turf that's caused the…

I honestly don't see how they can possibly have a human rights case in light of the fact men routinely play on these same surfaces, either in MLS matches or in previous FIFA events. Is it a shitty surface? Definitely. Does it suck it's being used? No question. Is it a human rights issue? I don't think so. It's not a…

They should pull the tournament from Canada and give it to the country it beat out in the race to host it. That ought to shut everyone up.

While the 2018 WC most likely won't be played on artificial turf it is simply not true that the men aren't being forced to play on it even at the very highest level.

I don't want to be thought of as defending FIFA here, but I need to point out that there was a grand total of ZERO countries not named Canada bidding to host this tournament.

Most of the players in the Women's World Cup play on turf during the year, so I'm not seeing what the problem is here.