That absolutely must have been a factor. They don’t want to get burned twice, so they jacked up the GK price tag to almost double what the previous transfer record was.  If the guy wants to leave and Liverpool are suddenly willing to be outrageous with the checkbook, go for it. 

It’s interesting to see Klopp do a 180 from his “I wouldn’t spend big even if I had the money” philosophy. I think that CL loss to Madrid finally broke him. He’s 1-6 in cup finals and has never paid more than pennies for a goalkeeper. Now he buys the most expensive one in history 6 months after doing the same for a…

Plenty of lower league players have speed. But Jesus Christ, watching this kid blow by so many world class defenders while keeping the ball on a string is breathtaking.  

I’ve been in the exact same situation with my friends because I also have a Liverpool bias.  Every time Jesus has fluffed a chance I’ve texted them in jest while secretly not joking that “Bobby would have done better there.”

The Roberto Martinez take is the correct take. 

“It breaks my heart. We can’t change our skin color. I have great kids. I have a great family,” Felicia Dobson said.”

Yeah he’s trying to give his keeper a clear view, but had Suarez not buried that free kick that could have easily been a penalty.  It’s one thing to body a player out of position but he more or less tackled him.

The horseshit Volkswagen commercials are enough of a daily reminder.  Please no more. 

I can feel the greaterness getting greater.

The most infuriating experiences of people talking in theaters is when they are sitting directly behind you. Hey Becky, my ears are four feet from your squawk box. Just because I’m facing the other direction doesn’t mean I can’t hear you asking your BFF what Tommy’s innocuous text REALLY MEANT like you were sitting in…

To my knowledge Morocco doesn’t have the crime rate of, say, Colombia in 1994. But homeboy might want to put his house on the market and look for homes elsewhere.

“What’s the farthest you can drive on pure memory? Assume there are zero street signs and you just have to go off of where you’ve made it before. You could make it from DC to ______.”

I’ve spent way too much time trying to decide if I can see the bottom rim of some old man ball sack or if it’s the back part of his left thigh.

Username checks out.

I never said he was remembered ONLY for the headbutt. And yes I grew up watching him play and for me he is one of the greatest midfielders to ever have graced the sport. You’re acting like everyone is trying to erase his entire history because of that moment. Newsflash: they aren’t.

The dumb jokes have nothing to do with hating Madrid. The head butt, like it or not, is very obviously one of the most memorable Zidane moments of his career. I don’t really see how that can be disputed.

This thread seems to suggest otherwise, but ok.

Let the idiots have their fun. Nobody disputes his greatness, but when THAT happens in a World Cup final and your last game as a professional? It’s not being petty, it’s just what is most remembered.  

It wasn’t clear from the post, but I really really want to believe these people mean the bathmat that is actually in the shower. Like the rubber one that some people use to make sure you don’t slip and break your leg. Maybe they step out, piss all over it, then turn the shower on for a second to *kind of* wash it down…

The correct answer to the merging lanes is to make sure you’re staying with the flow of traffic around you, and judge whether you need to go a bit faster or a bit slower to merge without killing yourself and everyone around you. That means don’t be the overconfident dick going 20-mph faster and trying to shoot the gap…