Having an unconventional, unusual, risky, or rare experience (porn, mountain climbing, making every Julia Childs dish etc) is insufficient preparation for writing good prose. I wish more people got that.

Because it guarantees his wages for 4 years, whether he is loaned, sold or not. For Chelsea, he is a “home-grown” player who may command a decent transfer fee at some point.

There’s way too many reasons they do this.

You play for West Ham?

Chelsea sure could use a pacy winger with an eye for goal right about now—I wonder what his price tag is!

Yah, this is a dick move. "I'm going to tell no one about this and then fuck all the other designers." The nerve of some gay fish....

I don’t blame McElwain. Having a coach test a player’s manhood helped turn Syracuse into a Big East basketball powerhouse.

You were saying?

You sound like one of those revisionist history buffs. Guess you forgot that Chelsea were already a Champion League club before Roman came along, and the red teams in England were spending millions before we ever did.

Also, to call what either Arsenal or ManU are doing as “rolling” or looking “very sharp” is being generous.

This isn’t the Bundelisga. They have 33 games to go, not 31.

This is Wenger vs Mourinho - Wenger’s already lost this match by out-thinking himself.

The worst part is that Arsenal will come to Stamford Bridge on Saturday morning - after a Wednesday trip to Croatia - and proceed to not only shit the bed and lose 1-0, but right the Chelsea ship.

This isn’t really unprecedented. Why, the Nazis were known to make lampshades exclusively from Jewish artists.

Anon? Jesus Christ, whatever happened to normal names like John or Michael?

The last straw for me was when they started selling maize dogs at the concession stands.

I’ve always assumed tailgating was something you did the day of the game. If you are drinking in a Buffalo RV parking lot on Saturday night, you aren’t tailgating, your just living your life in Buffalo.

This is going to be devastating news for his family when they sober up in 3 days.

Damn, to think if he had seen the way Buffalo played yesterday his depression would’ve subsided until at least early October.