Generally, yes.

The solid answer is basically “rugby, and Canadian colleges changed fewer of the rules in their version than American colleges did in theirs.” American football fields before 1912 used to be longer than they are now (though they were never as wide as they are up here for some reason, possibly because Harvard in…

Rooney, alone, has done this twice in the EPL before last night.

This is probably the least annoying of all Deadspin’s recent VAR posts because it summarizes them all and the key complaint in a form that can actually be addressed.

There was an explanation (specifically, Berhalter said that Seb Lletget’s injury meant that they needed to bring more attackers that could also serve as depth on the wings instead of Sargent) but the USMNT fanbase has latched firmly onto Sargent as your next saviour and wouldn’t have accepted any explanation for him…

CONCACAF is also meeting in Paris around now so yeah, I’d agree with this take.

Alternatively, he lived in England sometime between 1998 and 2015, where that was absolutely a thing.

I mean, it DOES protect old money from being challenged by just bringing in more outside money to spend on players (which has historically been the easiest and fastest way to do it, true). It may not have been intended that way but that is its effect (if it were actually consistently enforced, anyway).

However, it…

Spending is, after all, the only way to become (and stay) great in this sport, and the main thing separating City’s transfer budget from Real Madrid’s is that Madrid got their riches long enough ago for people to just accept it as “deserved.”. If a club has the money, they should be allowed to spend it. 

tl;dr: No, if a team that wins the CL or EL is already qualified for the group stage through their league, then the group stage spot goes to a team from a lower-ranked country that would ordinarily have to go through the qualifying rounds, not a lower-ranked team from their league that would ordinarily go to the…

That’s perfectly fair, honestly! The numbers aren’t pretty and there’s hard work ahead to turn them around if it’s even possible.

I’m actually a Vancouver fan and I still love Kekuta Manneh like he was my own baby brother, but if you’re depending on him to have your team make a splash in its first year you’re gonna have a bad time.

The NHL is the league that MLS should copy? During the regular season how many times does NBCSN show Florida, Carolina, Arizona, or Columbus? It’s the Rangers, Flyers, Caps, Penguins, Bruins, Blackhawks over and over.

The difference in star power and talent is obvious, but “stakes” is really subjective, I think.

Pretty much, yes. The problem for MLS has always been “how to get more Americans to like soccer”, because the number of Americans that CURRENTLY like soccer, while extremely loud on the Internet about things that cater (or not) to their aesthetic preferences, is not high enough to fund on its own, or attract the…

I hear that a lot but I’m not sure I agree with it entirely. Obviously avoiding relegation or securing promotion is a big driver for owners investing in teams in, say, England (arguably to their long-term detriment, if you look at the finances of Championship teams that DON’T get promoted and/or the revolving door of…

I broadly agree with this point, but isn’t the St. Louis bid including their existing USL team? I haven’t been following that closely because I figure it’s basically a done deal.

I mean arguably that gap is smaller than in any comparable league but it’s always going to exist, agreed.

I was genuinely curious when I saw this headline how you would link Koch’s firing to a criticism of MLS’ expansion strategy, so credit where credit is due for a unique angle even if it’s leading to a dead-horse destination.

That said, am I the only one confused by how you can simultaneously argue that MLS should…

A lot of the Discourse on salaries in English soccer is based on speculation or outdated info since they don’t have league salary caps or aggressive player unions to deal with. The most recent info I was able to find (from last year’s financial statements covering the 2016/17 season, in an article at https://www.thebol…