It’s harder to handicap now with no Peter Crouch, Frank Lampard, or John Terry

Man you just gotta respect that shit. I wish more countries were that openly hostile to opposing teams.

Canadian here, aside from the colonial ties which are much stronger here than in the US (my grandparents were actually British citizen before Newfoundland joined Canada). The shorter answer to British soccer fandom origin story is Michael Owen in the ‘98 World Cup.

Wait... people use Instagram for things besides looking at pics of women in bikinis?

I consider myself to be above average

It managed to keep me safe from crashes many times by now because other drives are reckless like hell (changing lanes without looking, abruptly stopping for no reason etc.)

Mmmmm, I think it’s more like 90% Vic.

That’s just.. I don’t even know, take all the stars

What if... we have LeBron.... and like, LeBron is in love with some city... but then it turns out that city is actually a golden retriever or something.

You’re being purposely obtuse to try and make a pointless point. I believe the issue is that law enforcement should need warrants to get into someone’s personal life period, whatever type of search warrant it is. Not have a magic box that exploits a security defect in phones that lets them break into whoever’s device…

Ehhhhh, it’s hard to say, as someone else mentioned it’s hard to believe based on how many immigrants we have from soccer crazy nations and the massive under-18 participation numbers.

Yes previous tournaments which had co-hosts still guaranteed spots for both countries. It’s undecided though at the time of the announcement whether they’ll do the same for three.

I’ve heard a lot of optimism on the Canadian sports shows this morning that; “We have 8 years to get ready and are going to have an awesome team”. We will be worse than Qatar, if we even get in. We’re in the easiest qualifying group in the world and consistently lose to tiny Carribean and Central American nations. If…

You are correct, Toronto and Montreal do have natural grass soccer only stadiums. The problem is they’re MLS sized, not World Cup sized. These games will more than likely be shoehorned in the woefully inadequate (for soccer) Rogers Centre, and the crumbling concrete nightmare of Olympic Stadium, neither of which can…

Dios mio!

Ah fair enough, I kinda thought about a big tall defender coming forward for corner/free kicks right after I posted.

No self respecting non-American is drinking American light beer, sorry dude.

Ripping on the Senators, especially Karlsson, is one of my favorite hobbies. But holy shit this is fucked up, feel bad for the guy regardless of what comes out of the she said/she said stories I’m sure are yet to come. Sounds like he’s stuck in the middle of a whole ton of crazy.

Oh year, Twitter in it’s heyday before it turned toxic was alright, ditto Facebook. Little sub-communities all built around people who liked the same things and enjoyed interacting with each other. I felt it turn myself in 2015 when the only thing I ever wanted to do on social media became telling people how stupid…

Counterpoint: Raisins are fucking awful