So the Lions won the Battle of the Inept because they lost? It’s nice that both teams got to win something.

Everyone knows that Arsenal shit the bed in the round of 16, after Forest Gumping their way to second in the group.

No shit. I think that’s journalism 101.

In a word, no.

I’m assuming you’re referring to Chelsea at the end of September and not Everton or the “just out of the top 4 behind Man City” Hull.

That 3-5-2 really payed off for Arsenal in the first after. Watford was much more dangerous in the second with the 4-4-2 going plus the subs to make it work.

Redacted.

Any soccer fan worth a shit hates penalties for tournament games. It's a combo of skills and dumb luck. Even corner kicks would be better. At least then you’d get the whole team involved minus one keeper.

OK. So Sweden is the women’s soccer equivalent of the mid 90s- early 2000s NJ Devils...who thrice won the Stanley Cup playing some boring ass hockey.

#PonyExpressionism

I swear to God that if Bob Ley dies next, I’m running over Berman in the ESPN parking lot.

It’s harmless jingoism and harmless jingo-ism is the best kind of jingoism. Generally nobody dies.

The real problems come when you can’t separate “We beat you in swimming” with “We’re invading your country next week.”

Both of you can go to hell and die.

We should have listened

He demonstrated his inability to score at the international level in games that really matter. His name is now a verb for a glaringly awful, gut-crushing miss. For instance, “He could’ve walked that ball into the goal but he just Wondo’d it.” He’s dead to me. Jurgen should feel the same.

But what the hell does Jeff Lynne know about international soccer?

I have to imagine that the mid-to-late summer humidity is just god-awful, as well; like playing baseball in a sauna.

C’mon, man. If we kept out every crank with a hare-brained idea of what the country’s ills were, we wouldn’t even have a Congress.

Two words: Allen Iverson.

I’m not a huge MLS watcher so I can say this only based on what I’ve seen from the USMNT, but...always like this?