“A tournament defined by fraudhood.” You and I are watching different tournaments, I think.

I never sausage a crazy idea.

I get the feeling attendance there has been optional.

Yeah, as I commented elsewhere, everyone who decided to just stand and raise their arms, looking over to the assistant in the forlorn hope an offside call will come, should be gifted a chance to stay on the bench for the Iceland game. That was the least fucking professional “play” I’ve seen in years.

Everybody who doesn’t want to play the next game, raise your hand...

Well, I’d probably pick Gary Lineker or someone else more geographically appropriate, but your suggestion is solid.

Everybody is the original fucking racist. What the English have going for them is success over the centuries. Therefore they were able to practice it more successfully than many others.

we’re Stupid

The hotel is not there in the book, of course. But the location still plays a role.

Likely 6.5, but that hasn’t been decided yet. If so, that works for Canada (which, believe it or not, is actually getting better) and the other CONCACAF countries probably won’t complain because they start at 3.5 without the US or Mexico to go up against.

Olympic Stadium in Montreal, BMO Field in Toronto, Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton. Montreal and Edmonton will have their turf fields replaced with grass: I’m curious to see what happens in Edmonton with the Eskimos, since this falls in the middle of CFL season.

I heard the other day de Bruyne has taken to coaching the team and they are largely ignoring Martinez. We’ll see if that’s true and how it pans out, but with Spain now it’s not even the most interesting coaching story.

This and Man After Man are still downstairs on my shelf. The TV show came out 3 years after Walking With Dinosaurs, and I suspect was meant to capitalize. My oldest was 6 then, the younger boy 3, and they enjoyed it, but preferred the book since WWD had already captured their hearts.

When I lived in northern British Columbia I worked in a store that had an eye wash station. Evey summer the town was overloaded with tree planters, and one, driving by, had his bear spray go off in the car. I expect he was probably fiddling with it. He stopped in the middle of the road and ran across the parking lot…

“Rock?”

Or his marriage, for that matter.

Won’t anybody think of poor Phil Pritchard?

I have a friend whose daughter plays university soccer in Canada. I don’t believe he hates anyone as much as he hates Sydney. Something about having a daughter playing that makes this an even bigger issue, I think. O felt that way about Teal Bunbury, but it didn’t last.

I’m in my 50s and shave my head to make sure that unsightly bald spot dominates rather than accentuates. And my beard is pretty much pure grey. But do go on. I love it when people call me youngster.