You’ve got to feel for the people of the Bahamas, though, their boys put up a valiant effort and ‘kept the pressure on.’

St Pauli seem to be every German’s second team, every German I’ve met at least, so you can probably get away with both.

Ah, Werder. Irrelevant since the golden age of Rufer.

Real Madrid-quality

Former Tottenham forward Ledley King

Flop isn’t correct, but I think you’re selling Mata short on the expectations front. At Chelsea he was legitimately one of the top three or four creative players in the league (*sob, those were the days*), he arrived as Moyes’ blockbuster purchase and steadily declined to being an inconsistent bench guy occasionally…

a 4-0 loss to Everton, United’s worst defeat to the Toffees in club history.

Very much this. Initial replay looked like arm, but they briefly showed a different angle a bit later and it was very much chest.

This Ajax team has revealed itself to be a giant-killer of the sort that didn’t seem to exist anymore

Romania deserves their shout-out, too.

Zidane could be throwing a three-year legacy of historic, blemish-free success down the trash chute.

Wang’s Folly

Minor countercounterpoint: with Infantino desperate to ram through the 48-team expansion ahead of Qatar, Argentina likely won’t need to worry too much about not qualifying.

Minor countercounterpoint: with Infantino desperate to ram through the 48-team expansion ahead of Qatar, Argentina likely won’t need to worry too much about not qualifying.

F1 internecine paranoia is well-documented, but it’s a bit of an odd explanation in this case as surely only the production crew would have access to any footage, and would presumably be legally bound to not leak anything that would confer a competitive advantage to another team. And with the film not coming out until…

*gonna Spursy.

I think it’s a pretty unsafe bet, tbh. Southampton’s recruitment has been rotten for years, the “1. sell everyone good to Liverpool. 2. replace them with: ? 3. profit???” strategy was always going to fall down and fall down hard at some stage. Their plight is much more about the man they appointed to replace Puel,…

and solidifying himself as the greatest manager in Scottish history

BA were prepping to get the division up and running again post-Paris and flew a test flight to check all of their safety upgrades were in order, going halfway across the Atlantic and turning back to simulate the distance of a full run... on 11/9/2001. After landing some BA staffer interrupted the flight deck debrief…

And here was I thinking they were trying to encourage drags from their Marlboro, sorry, Mission sponsor logos.