When it comes to bribery and corruption, FIFA is wonderfully integrated.

That was a Qatari prince...

Something, something Bangkok.

It’s spelled “Lech-ster City”

If you think players - or students in general -at those school don’t smoke pot, drink, fornicate, etc, you are hilariously mistaken.

It’s $2.49 in Seattle. But TJs is the best for cheap booze for sure - I like the Boatswain alright, and their whiskeys, vodkas, gins, etc are mostly under $15 (except for the “quality” TJ products), plus the red box wine (4 bottles for $11!!) is a perfectly quaffable day to day red, not nearly as awful as the 2 buck…

Look, we know the problem…they’re both right handed.

He deserves a rest. Madrid seems like such a poisonous environment it’s no surprise with no trophies despite having the most expensive team in the world (I think) and winning almost 75% of his games (compare that to Mourinho at 71% or Del Bosque, who won a paltry 54% (along with a couple Champs Leagues and La Ligas…

He should put some ice on that.

Nice volley. He didn’t get the original service be-forehand. Some folks just aren’t bjorn to get puns…Correction! He wrote “serve a purpose.”

I’ve been in the black on io9 for a long time, but of course they’re much more civilized and thoughtful over there… I really don’t understand how the commenting approval process works and I’ve been coming to gawker for several years. I was black on all the sites, then grey when the kinja switch happened, and now I’m…

BTW, I comment on almost every soccer related post yet I’ve been wallowing in the greys for months. What the hell does a person have to do to get out of this limbo?

Well, where I am (Seattle), I had the DVR set to record the games “live” on USA and some other station…and it’s NCIfuckingS and some Small Town Murder show rerun. Oh, and they weren’t live, because I saw the game results on the Guardian as I was settling in to watch. WTF.

Okeedoke tough guy, ya really got me with that one. I feel so chastised.

Yeah, getting his nose bloodied totally makes for a pussy dive on his part.

I don’t know if “good” is the correct word to use.

At the end of James Corden’s show he did a nice tribute by running up to the top of the CBS studios in LA and dumped a pile of watermelons onto the parking lot below. Brought back fond memories of high school watching Dave drop and smash all manner of random things from on high...

Johnny Carson was, is and will always be #1. The Tonight Show defined late night, and he crushed everybody who tried to go up against him. Unfortunately most folks now only remember him through clips and his last years, but he was the king for a very, very good reason. That said, Dave is a solid #2.

Or the time, in the middle of a really tight race for the scoring title just a couple of weeks ago, he gave up the opportunity for a PK goal and gave it instead to Neymar…oh wait...

My favorite bit about all of this is CR7 scores a hat trick, but it’s all for naught. Yes, he wins the Pichichi, but no trophies - and Messi a couple weeks ago basically gave it to him anyway by letting Neymar take a PK in his place.