None of the accused are Catholic and the trial took place in a majority-Protestant society. If you’re in the mood for more amateur sociology you’d do better to look at centuries of Protestant male entitlement.

Fear not, for the Clown Motel welcomes one and all.

To me it’s worth asking whether the title is legitimate when current professional soccer player Kermit Romeo Erasmus was not in competition.

No doubt the mentality has changed under Klopp, and I expect they’ll be better next season regardless of what happens with the squad. But they’re still not where they were in 2013-2014. Leicester and Arsenal probably will struggle, barring serious investment over the summer, but I’m not convinced Liverpool have the…

Liverpool are in 8th, 22 points off the pace and 9 points out of 4th in a season where 4 of their 5 consistent rivals have badly underperformed. They were hammered by Swansea 4 days ago. Sturridge remains their only genuinely elite player, on the rare occasions he’s fit and emotionally stable. Klopp’s points-to-games…

City’s problem this year is defense. Like you said, PSG has a stacked offense, probably the most potent in Europe outside Spain. Atleti or Wolfsburg would’ve been preferable at that stage, or in retrospect, flailing Barca. And even coming off a winter break Dynamo are a genuinely decent side. City would’ve had an…

“Arguably” is not a broad enough cop-out to encompass an argument that PSG or Dynamo were the most flawed team in either round. Leaving aside that to the extent “Citeh” got easier late-round draws, it was by winning a group that included the previous year’s CL finalist and Europa League winner.