Insane match and fair result, but I don’t understand why there is even a question over the second penalty. Van Dijk Bruce Lee’d Lamela’s leg as he was in position to win the ball.

The story Billy Haisley wouldn’t dare mention: Ballou Tabla just left MLS to join Barcelona on an initial 3-year deal with two team option years. The transfer fee was an undisclosed “seven-figures” and his new contract includes a release clause increasing from €25-75m. 

“As we already know thanks to things like franchise fees for expansion teams, MLS loves nothing more than to invent income streams for its various owners outside the traditional ones.”

Your comment would have made sense about ten years ago. The draft is almost meaningless now, precisely because of the reasons you mentioned.

Business acts in self interest...Billy can’t comprehend.

* Neymar: Behaves like an asshole, gets treated like an asshole.

I mostly read his articles now just for the comments so imagine my delight when I’m reading Haisley burns in a non-Haisley article. Well done.

10,000 words, 6 periods.

I’ll wait for Haisley’s 10,000 word article explaining that the reason the Breakers failed was because the league doesn’t have relegation.

my therapist asks me the same thing

Messi and Ronaldo are at a point where they seem to break some different record every other week according to ESPN whenever a new Real Madrid or Barcelona scoreline scrolls past on the ticker- I’m fairly certain not many people are actively following along those record “chases” prior to them falling but it does make…

The point is well founded, but I don’t think it’s unique to right wing echo chamber(s).

There are a few things that would really help the MLS playoffs - the most obvious being having either all the playoff games before the November international break, or more ideally after. This game was a typical play defensive away side vs a team trying to push at home. Wasn’t a great game, but not different than a…

My honest-to-goodness first thought upon seeing that was that was legitimately the best use of my tax dollars the Trump Administration has yet come up with. I’m not kidding.

The “greater American sports fandom complex” has allowed the aftermath about which you complain because not enough people give a shit, and many of those that do don’t understand enough about programmatic development at the international level to form an opinion (beyond “Fire everybody!” that is) on how to improve the…

I don’t get this idea that a Europa World Cup is something to laugh at, or that it’s a particularly American thing. How many tournaments do most European clubs play in? How many random trophies are available each year?

Rather than hibernating for a year or so in shame...

“Bruce Arena is and has always been a water-carrier, and he was given the U.S. job to make up for his predecessor’s principled insistence on challenging the status quo.”

Honestly, I am getting a little tired of everyone saying the sky is falling without bringing up one important thing that nobody is mentioning: Other teams.

The great thing about England qualifying for the World Cup is that they’ll be there to get knocked out in humiliating fashion.

It’s no fun when they sit home.