The national side is a victim of the Premiership’s success.
In the 20 years since they made the semis (in bloody England, I might add), clubs have gone from fielding majority English teams to majority foreign ones.
The young talent is being out-competed for first team places by the hungrier Johnny Foreigner.

This is my…

Kante is “nowhere near as good as Pogba”? And the things Pogba is good at are way more important than the things Kante is good at? I’m sorry, but those are two of the most mind-bogglingly stupid soccer takes I’ve ever heard, and I’ve had the misfortune of listening to Alexi Lalas’ commentary. Kante covers an…

Is it just me or does this story read exactly like an article about Thomas Muller except with the names and nationalities switched?

Every dumbfuck fan who calls into sports radio shows thinks that their MLB or NFL team would be better-off if it were managed by a fan or an industry outsider.

Huh, given that you completed your masters thesis on this topic, you think you would know that the “disasters mentioned in this article” weren’t caused by standing sections. You also think you would reckon with the fact that many safe seating models do in fact give fans tickets to be in a specific place, that hooligan…

Paterno probably could have avoided the injury had he not been too busy looking the other way.

Exactly what Gallup found after everyone got Thatcher’s third victory wrong in 1987. You can guarantee people anonymity, but they’re still embarrassed to admit the unpalatable truth…

Actually US polling has been pretty terrible itself the last two election cycles. In particular regarding turnout, which is clearly the major factor in this election should it swing unexpectedly one way or the other.

The last time I checked, a major party putting forward a demagogue on a platform of unbridled bigotry, hatred, racism, xenophobia and lies is a one-off as well…