I have a friend who was doing an exercise in another area of the Nevada Test Site supporting an exercise at NTC when their HMMWV broke down (flat tire or something stupid like that). They pulled off the road. And while they’re pulling their tire off, a black Suburban rolls up, helps them with their tire fix,…

Fair. He might be good at statistics but that doesn’t mean he’s good at providing context to those statistics. If that’s the analysis he’s delivering while trying to sell his product to people who paid to see him, it’s not very good and makes me question his understanding of the game beyond the statistics he’s selling.…

You’re not confusing the men’s team with the women’s team, are you?

This gets alluded to by both yourself and the other commenters, but I think it’s worth stating: quantitative data, by itself, isn’t analysis. And frequently, even if there is quantitative analysis, it needs to be supported with qualitative analysis.

To use the Milner example, it’s stupid to smarmily say “He just makes…

Nope. It’s not that complicated.

I think his point was: both suck and neither are worth watching. 

“They just also have a stadium to pay off and, well, see Arsenal 2006-present.”

As an all-around Spurs loather, this truth hurts so, so much.

France had three attempts on goal and scored on one of them and came damn near to scoring on a couple of others that just went wide.

But tangling of legs isn’t a foul. It’s a part of soccer. The way White went down I was worried VAR was going to have to pull up the Zapruder film and try to find the man on the grassy knoll who shot her.

It was incidental contact and a terrible dive and I’m glad they got nothing for it.

the sacrifices we make for love

Well, me and mine are going to keep disposing of bodies the way we have for generations: wrapped in a blood-soaked rug in a ditch on a lonely road. 

Ahh. Just like a genuine Sorny. Or Magnetbox.

Razr, FFS.

But it also explains so much...

Solid medical recognition from the coach that a knee needs ligaments. You don’t get that kind of penetrating insight from other sports. 

Hope Solo? But I’m guessing that’s only because she doesn’t have one.

I can and will do both, good sir.

Look, friend. I expect you’re a pleasant enough individual.

But we didn’t win one War of Independence and basically tie a second, more pointless war 30 years later to spell the word “colour”.

You take that goddamn “u” and you leave.

Other than the number of World Cups won, you can hardly tell them apart.