He crawled into bed with a woman and slept there with his arm around her in only his underwear.

And right in front of the linesman. It was a bad display all round really.

Both the stamp and the elbow should have been detected by the linno but Arter taking Pogba’s shoulder to the face that was all Friend, he was standing right by it and it was his side of the pitch. The penalty that shouldn’t have been given was on Friend. The fact he gave a player a yellow for a slight shove and had to…

I’m excited. I think I’m going to take a week off work and go watch the first two group games. We’ll have to see how we play against Germany because we’ve played France at the last 3 major tournaments and yeah we beat the Germans in the 3rd place game at the WC but they are still a bloody great team even without Celia…

Yes the team who has existed and played in White as their home kit and red as their away since 1863 is dressed like the one that didn’t form til 50 years later.

Get in right, it was the 88th minute. 88m55s.

That’s football man, have you ever watched it before? Also both those subs made perfect sense; a defender and defensive midfielder were brought on for a central midfielder and a winger.

Kevin Friend was awful. Let an attack continue despite a player having caught a shoulder to the head. Was completely inconsistent with his decision making.

I use the American terms and American pronunciations when talking about the NFL, I don’t think that bit is unreasonable but the aping of fan culture is odder to me. Especially because it apes bits that are specific to certain regions and mixes them altogether. It’s more the concept of “ultras” on the terraces that…

Yep, kit sharing was so important to the formation of clubs in the beginnings of football. It’s a totally different thing to the ripping off of established supporter culture by new teams.

Brazilian football started 20 years after the first football league in England, it was brought over by immigrants and played by them before the game grew and grew in popularity. It’s more like looking at the New York Cricket League than MLS. The MLS was formed and fans are taking up teams that are being created to…

I don’t wear my team scarf in the summer in the UK, I wear it to games until I don’t need a scarf anymore. I have a team bobblehat, I wear it when it’s cold.

As a non-American I have laughed so hard at that chant. It’s so fucking terrible.

I don’t think that’s a problem. I say this as a Brit who says field and pronouncing route, “rout” and defence “dee-fence” when talking about the NFL.

If you need a mic to start a chant you are doing it wrong. You need two people shouting and 10 people around to join in.

I believe the basis is true. How it really went down is up for debate.

To be fair to to Arsenal Di Sarandi they were founded near where the military arsenal was in the town. Which is exactly how Arsenal were named. It’s not aping in the same way. Also in the olden days when football was new clubs would send old kits to ex players and fans across the world when they started new clubs…

Not apparently, they’ve been besties since Dawson’s Creek, Phillips is godmother to Williams’ daughter. They are legit friend goals.

They are ornamental and the ornaments usually signify rank.

In Australian cricketing terms “he smashed it”.