Obviously different sport and different significance, but in HS football lots of teams do dumb choreographed dances and chants and whatnot. I would always take a break from warming up to walk over to the midfield line smile dismissively at them cause it struck me as rather weak-minded. Didn’t show me they were tough,…

Yeah because its not like they let anyone leave anytime and its not like top youth players keep selecting them over every other academy in Europe

“More pressingly, why does Chelsea even have a youth system this large if they’re not going to take advantage of it?”

Yeah... I tend to be a bit understated but by “[not] terribly clear” I mean the author is either misunderstanding the (admittedly complex) issue or is taking a weirdly strong stance  

Exactly. Lots of funny business here and potentially not simply about a “lowball” offer

Oh I completely agree with your sentiment here. Just pointing out that there are 2 sides to this and one of them is very aggressively lying. I don’t think that was terribly clear from the article above.

The rumor making the rounds is that it was not in fact a lowball offer but a YUGE offer. Meelan were willing to go with EU 10m/ yr after tax, making him the 2nd highest GK in the world (De Gea I guess?) If that turns out to be true, this may be as bad as fans think and really all about agent fees for good ole’ Raiola…

Here’s one!

Are you just writing down numbers or commenting on whether it was a blowout? When it is totally non-competitive and there is no realistic chance of the losing team coming back, that is what people mean when they say “blowout.” The Celtics would make back to back stops/ 3s in the 3rd quarter and the announcers would…

It is fun when someone who obviously didn’t watch the game has such a bad take. It was in fact a blowout and a perfect example of “less competitive than the score would indicate.”

They should just have Bisping fight the guy from the opening ship scene in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. He seemed pretty tough.

Here’s a question for the people re: bandwagon fans

Reading The Road in 4th grade huh? Edgy!

This is my favorite pool jumping video, shows just how ridiculous BJ Penn was:

Wait, do D1 basketball players own clothes that aren’t team gear? Cause I have certainly never seen any around campus wearing anything else. This could go poorly in January, even if it is NC.

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No racial element at all, but to be fair they didn’t have anyone present to be racist against (it was 2 big groups of 20-something white folks) so who knows if that would’ve spiced it up even more? The stereotype I was referencing was a combination of stupid/ loud/ prone to physical violence.

You’d think they’d be happier, but just last month during Seahawks-Patriots at BW3 I witnessed a huge, bar destroying brawl between 2 large groups of patriots fans because one of their GFs wouldn’t stop talking shit about who knows what. Their ability to remain angry stereotypical Boston bros despite constant success…

Hmm no James “The Beard” Harden on the facial hair list?

I do, I do, I say I do declare.... that’s a remarkably accurate statement.