Meh.

John Bercow and Jeremy Corbyn certainly aren’t. So there's two. I couldn't tell you what Sir Chips Keswick makes of the whole ordeal.

Goals.*

One of those weaker clubs is Atleti, third-best team in Spain and a credible title contender. Suddenly they’ll have traded an away match, with all the home advantage that would entail for their opponents: Villarreal at the, ahem, *insert shitty football naming rights greed* at the Ceramica [they renamed their stadium…

appendagectomy

I could point you in the direction of Harry Kane wearing a Pats jersey and revelling in his Tom Brady fandom to balance things out a bit, if you’d like.

In this case some of the twitter abuse came from Chelsea fans. But a lot of it didn’t. One of the frequently screenied (in media reports) abusers, @Joe_rasugu (now banned) purported to be a Barcelona supporting law grad. From Kenya. Who was specifically replying to an old Tammy Abraham tweet mocking Steven Gerrard’s…

Die Mannschaft made it all the way to the semi

In fairness to Sarri, I suspect things would have gotten a whole lot easier on the eye had he ended up staying for a second year: a proper pre-season, time to run the rule over which players from the loan army he wanted to integrate, the looming possibility of adding a player or two in Jan should the ban get reduced…

Pedestrian? Clearly didn’t watch Germany 2-4 Netherlands. Or their UNL victories over the likes of France, Germany and England. You could call them pedestrian like a year and a half ago but they’re on a solid upturn under Koeman.

Lots of points well-made, but...

I realise this is an American site, and hence football is low on the totem pole and the headlines have to reflect an assumption of lack of knowledge on the part of a large chunk of the readers. But... ‘Napoli’s Manager,’ for a man with more CL titles to his name than any active manager bar Zidane (tied), including the…

Certainly had a hand in it, there’s no denying that. But I’d still point to a big distinction between Aguero’s path and Torres who joined Atleti in 1995 as an 11-year-old and came up through the youth ranks.

I wouldn’t exactly call it a production line given the only player of that bunch they actually produced in-house was Torres. The rest was just good buying. They dropped €20m on Aguero, €21m on Forlan, €40m on Falcao. Not exactly unknown guys: the much-heralded Aguero a then club record buy, Forlan a prolific scorer…

Depends which metric you want to use. If you want a bit of the Bradley Wright Phillips therum you’re talking 54:1. Perhaps a more flattering conversion rate would be Zlatan which is 38:17 per Wiki (cba breaking that down into decimals).

Barbarians, wonderful institution. Essentially a drinking club that dabbles in a bit of rugby on the side.

Literally wasn’t him, though. He’s infamous for acquiring the services of, ahem, a lady of the night old enough to be his mother.

Alternatively, those of us under 30 all played San Andreas.

Someone (that someone being Sri Lanka) is about to lose heavily in a few hours’ time, having set a very mediocre total. Meanwhile South Africa’s Morris is having a decent day’s bowling, claiming two wickets (batsmen = out) whilst restricting Sri Lanka to roughly four and a half runs for every over (6 balls) he’s…

Respectfully have to disagree here, the Socceroos basically always get called the Socceroos. It’s as much proper name as it is nickname. Australia have a bunch of national teams that do well in various sports, the flagship that just about lays claim to commonly being called ‘Australia’ without a nickname is the men’s…