No, take the Icelandic. Insane, and I worry for his voice for the next game.

Apparently 8% of the population is in France. My son was just in Iceland last week and told me that 8% probably didn’t make a difference in how empty so much of the country felt.

“...Wales makes it to the finals of their very first major tournament.”

FIFA doesn’t much care for the Olympics, because it doesn’t control what happens there (read: filthy lucre) and because they don’t want it to rival the World Cup. The best they can do is manage how the teams are structured, which is why a team is restricted to U23 players, with 3 ringers who can be older than 23 added…

My misreading led to that, apparently. But it wouldn’t have been a “surprise” to us if we’d seen her get a response.

Sansa sat down and wrote a letter either one or two eps before (I have them on my PVR, saved for a wayward son, but am too lazy to go looking for that right now). There was nothing definitive, but I looked at my wife right then and told her that was a letter about to travel via raven to Littlefinger.

And twice good looking.

A current article from the Guardian:

I’m in Canada. I do know Americans along the border who can watch it, and I’ve heard of others who try to stream them. Having lived in the US during one Olympics, before the internet made these things easy, I recall how frustrating it was. Now I can turn to NBC, laugh, then flip back.

I’m thinking that’s because you watch them on NBC.

Yeah, this was just explained to me by Croatian friends. The HNS (Croatian Football Federation) is, in their minds, corrupt and run by people in cahoots with a much-hated government. “With a pinch of idiocy,” they add.

Twice today I’ve seen the term “Latinx,” and had not seen it before. So, like any middle-aged white heterosexual beer swillin’ meat eatin’ male I decided to whine about kids these days and their new-fangled terms I looked it up (using this “Google” thingie) and discovered it makes perfect sense. Not only that, I know…

I played one soccer game with both of my boys, real league and all, the youngest a youth player called up. Goddamn but was I ever bursting. And not just my stomach in that tight jersey.

Canadians would appreciate a Don Cherry Couch Reupholstering Award. A right wing blowhard needs to be presenter.

If you have a gay voice, you must be gay. Right?

Hell, it’s clear she doesn’t get enough oxygen here on Earth.

Yeah, I remember all the weird pronunciations from living in Logan for 16 months. Kit-tar instead of guitar was another.

I work with a guy who just made the local university football team after taking a year off. On questioning him, I discovered he went to high school with a kid who is friends with my sons. Felt like I’d been kicked in the gut.

My son (who is now looking for a school to play at) and I were talking with an agent last year, someone who used to be involved in the academy system of an MLS team. He figured academy players stood, at best, a 10% chance of going on to play pro. For the rest, the best hope they had was to go on to a good school or,…

He’s big!