should belgium advance they get a team from our group. i'd love it to be the US, but if they get germany or portugal they could be in trouble. belgium got a favorable group draw but was unfortunate to be adjacent to the group of death.

some of those groups are jokes. at least if the US somehow advances they get a team from group H. belgium has been talked about enough that they can't be underrated anymore, as much as i hate sounding like chuck fuckin klosterman right there

swiss/ecuador/italy/usmnt. this was the best draw i got. also got a draw of swiss/chile/costa rica/greece. these fuckin pots.

well, for one: i made my first post that's grayed out still when the game hadn't even started yet. so i did not think "hey, ukraine have a good chance down 2-0 at half!"

yes, i meant how the match currently sits! except for, you know, the part where ukraine lost an outfield player as soon as the second half started due to two bookings, which i don't think anyone saw coming. the current state of the match doesn't change my opinion that france winning 3-0 or 4-1 seemed like a tall order.

welp now that ukraine had a player sent off im a dummy and ukraine should probably hope for penalties

france has had trouble keeping a clean sheet in competitive matches the last two years. they can't afford to concede an away goal so i'm interested to see how they play the second half.

winning 2-0 only gets them to extra time and penalties. they would need at least three goals and a clean sheet to advance directly which probably won't happen.

like me and everyone else this article has trouble remembering how to conjugate verbs when referring to soccer playing nations

you wouldnt believe all the stupid ass misplaced jokes im getting from deadspin commenters at my twitter account @gergschiano

brb time to edit janoris jenkins' and steve smith's wikipedia pages

there's no way to refer to women as "the feminine specie" and not have it come off as incredibly creepy.

oh the thing in the article was a reference to south park!!!!!!! whoa

fifa rankings take into account the previous four years i think (tho each year back is weighted less and less) so france's implosion from 2010 is still included

idk how i feel about including friendlies in the rankings like elo does but i base that on UAE being ranked higher than poland, so

that's fair. i guess the only thing more annoying right now than the complete farce of english superiority/wilshereism is the eulogizing of a non-existent english superiority.

since that germany loss the only "world class teams" england have even played were italy and france in euro 2012 and they didn't win either game. but i suppose they did well in qualifying this year against stalwarts like san marino and moldova.

pretty much every paragraph from experts has the words "can," "possible," "may be," "technically, but..." jesus, of course these doctors would tell a person with diabetes to follow their personal doctor's instructions and not a post from life hacker dot com

october 10 will just never be a fun day for me. i hate this day. real fans of magic johnson on nba countdown and that time he put in his resignation because bill simmons took over the show after wilbon left will know what i mean

"police parking only" hm well i guess i was right to go with swagg after all