You know Tunisia were the team in white, right?

Oh my. That is INCREDIBLE

That whole game was really disappointing. Only one team was even attempting to play football. And it was never a penalty

maybe the best left back of all time in Marcelo

Now, I’m not definitively arguing that Henke was better than Zlatan here. I mean, Zlatan was/is incredible. But the quality of opposition isn’t really a factor in determining the quality of football that someone can produce. Doing something phenomenal against Real Madrid doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t produce…

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyy

Henrik Larsson, himself a former Swedish star

One sentence would have sufficed for this whole thing - “Mexico will finish 2nd in their group and lose in the Second Round.”

Call me when they get a keeper and a couple of centre halves and then, you know, actually win something. Then we’ll talk.

“...looks almost certain to spend the coming years as a lone superstar as his team lags behind the likes of Manchester City and Liverpool and Manchester United and Tottenham.”

This is very much true. There’s a tremendous double standard in claiming a word offensive is offensive, but not too offensive to be monetised.

As someone who has no knowledge of Ice Hockey, I’m guessing this is impressive, but I don’t know to what extent. Could someone please put this into context by telling me what a normal average-to-good number would be?

...Sort of. They’re all still teenagers

Most of it is for South Sydney Rabbitoh’s under-20s team. He never played first grade

I can’t read this piece. It’s taking 100% of my mental faculties to keep my head from exploding at the ridiculousness of the premise laid out in the heading

Officiating in every sport has gotten worse

This is true. And I don’t know what I think of that. Should he really be applauded for making something more aesthetically pleasing, even though it is far less accurate?

Just thought of a TLDR version of this. This is the equivalent of them getting Al Capone on tax evasion

The examples you gave may be a little bit different in that Beefy seems to have been quite pally with Marsh and Lillee off the field and that particular exchange seems to have gone down in cricketing lore as quite harmless. Similarly, Eddo Brandes’ response to McGrath’s sledge of “Why are you so fat?” with “Because…

Consider it as polishing ball being more an attempt to preserve the state of the ball, rather than tampering with it in order to change the conditions in your favour. But as I mentioned in a previous comment, ball tampering’s been going on forever and it’s not actually that much of a big deal as an isolated incident.
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