Tomorrow’s headline on Arseblog: “Arsenal Keeper Plays Key Role As England Goes Through”.

You’re not being pedantic at all, you’re being accurate. Britain is not just England.

Don’t want to be pedantic but brits not = england. Scotland and Wales (especially Scotland) are bitter rivals who would like nothing better than to see England choke on another shootout.

Oh God please don’t say that.

They had 29% possession in that loss and spent roughly the entire second half barely hanging on to a draw by their fingernails, and even when up a man couldn’t hang on the ball for longer than three seconds at a time. They simply don’t have very many great players and are only alive because of a 1-0 own-goal win…

As a casual soccer fan, I’ve been thinking similar things, so I’ll throw out a few not-entirely-coherent thoughts to see how the more knowledgeable react. And to get called a wanker.

I’m a Three Lions supporter (English heritage) and I definitely do not have one of those BS posts on my page.

am i wrong in assuming most all-lives-matter folk aren’t soccer fans?

C’mon, this is Spain. Every player on the team is better than any player on Russia. This is on the players, not the coach. 

I really liked Spain’s strategy of starting their counter attacks by immediately passing the ball backwards

And there’s my imaginary band’s new name: FionaAnne & the Feckless Cunts.

It’s nice that he continues to persist with this dream of his, since he’s helping to spread Christianity wherever he goes. The usual form is in comments people make about him, such as “Jesus, look at that awful swing” or “Christ, he really does suck”.

Bullets and shrapnel may break my bones but words are worse than both of these

I know she’s a mass shooting survivor, but San Felice should know that sort of language has no place on cable news. What if my kid had heard the “f-word” while watching a news segment about yet another preventable slaughter?  How could I explain such incivility?  Fortunately, she can make it up to the nation by…

I will leave this gem for you to ponder:

Before I watched the video, I thought you were joking.

To be fair, Bosio’s relative scale is calibrated differently than yours or mine.

“I’m an abusive asshole to the men who work for me too” is a really wonderful defense.

In Putin’s Russia, ball kicks you.

MLB’s unspoken message: