My assumption is he’s referring to Roy Keane...

Everton’s Michael Keane (no apparent relation)

shits the bed when it counts.

Hopefully this is the death knell of financial fair play. Smaller clubs are screwed over by it while wealthier, oligarch backed clubs can pay a pittance to get around it (with maybe a small transfer ban that will be winnowed away in appeals).

So would I. They’ve still got the best striker pairing on Earth (and an obscene amount of money now to buy the next Neymar).

But I’ve definitely read some writers having the sads, taking the whole “such a nice kid/how could he do this to the club/it’s shady how this went down” route, which had me writing that post.

This is a shitass take. ‘Why isn’t Neymar also the Xavi Hernandez replacement? He sux’.

This is a mind-boggingly stupid take

...Yes, Neymar is in fact worth four times as much as Kyle Walker.

NFL player here. You are spot on about the impotence of the union. Dom touched on it briefly at the end of his article, but the real crux of the union is the wealth disparity between “stars” and the journeymen. Because of this growing disparity, neither class of player has an incentive to strike. The stars want to…

This is a whole lot of words that give a whole bunch of irrelevant explanations. It’s not the salary cap, and it’s not the injury risk, it’s that the NFL union has done a far worse job over the decades than their counterparts in other sports. Nothing whatsoever prohibits a market where all NFL contracts are guaranteed…

Sports are stupid.

Exactly. This is basically the same concept as Gawker’s old “Brands Are Not Your Friend” post. 

Imagine if someone left accounting and people got this map. “He was a bum!” and then burn their time sheets/computers/novelty mugs.

Agreed. People care way too much about this meaningless shit. I am sad for them.

Too many people define their lives in way too large a part by what sports teams they like and don’t like. It’s pretty sad.

I’ll never understand why people get so butthurt about an adult who has every right to take whatever job he wants doing just that.

Keep it going. Love it.

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