Y’know, watching live that looked like the penaltiest penalty that was ever penaltied. But upon seeing the slo-mo, closer replay I felt kinda bad. Not bad enough to want to give it back, of course.
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Is it unfair to say Haisley seems awfully quiet right now? Well, I don’t care.
Yeah, I was also thinking this is much better material for stadium concessions prices jokes than Christie likes to eat stuff jokes.
You really want it to end before the next football season starts?
A running theme with this World Cup appears to be FIFA’s unnecessary cutting corners in ways that impinge on the quality of the competition. You can quibble about how profitable this specific tournament is, but FIFA can damn well afford to line up two different places for teams to stay, or for two group winners not to…
I mean, if he’s in Arkansas, Hucklenuts is the governor, and he’s found Jeezus, no prob. But otherwise...
Why, golfers can’t be involved in financial thuggishness, any more than bankers or stock traders can.
Now that’s just not fair.
Not that early, in this case: Isn’t Canada’s 4th of July the 1st of July (Canada Day)?
No shit: The electoral college? Three-fifths compromise? Second amendment? They had to be profoundly sloshed when they came up with that stuff.
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You know four of them will. Getting a fifth will be the tricky part. Clarence “Affirmative Action For Me, Not For Thee” Thomas won’t be it.
And, if it had caught on, would have given us football year round.
Don’t overlook the fact that the Qatar World Cup, scheduled as it is to be held in November and December, will mess up the MLS playoffs, too: Lately MLS Cup has been held the first or second weekend in December. As it stands, our league would either have to start earlier than usual or compress their playoffs in ‘22.…
Or even France and England. That’s why I assumed the English had won the group.
Oh. Crap. Well, that is messed up. Never mind.
I was sorry to see France get bounced so early, too. But if they’d beaten or even tied Colombia, they’d have won their group, wouldn’t they? And they’d have ended up where England is, with Norway and then presumably Canada and Japan if they really were that good.
Like her mother, she seems to spend half her time in pissy, huffy, snotty damage control over the dumb shit she spends the other half doing.
Well, everyone in her immediate family is, so probably she does.