Out the season before...

IIRC the answer is Arsenal, which explains a lot.

so....is there anything in soccer you actually LIKE? or are you just projecting?

I really didn’t want to succumb to all the Billy-bashing on this site but i get it now.

And that’s after profiting off the biggest sale in the history of the game.

Fwiw, the Concacaf champs league final last night was also highly entertaining—likely far more entertaining that Real kicking the ever-loving-shit out of Liverpool is going to be. And it provides a marvelous MLS Rorschach test, which I know you guys love to run (did Toronto’s near-miss prove that MLS is getting…

Deadspin itself half-asses its soccer coverage by making Billy the lead.

I know the answer. We all know the answer. More an appeal to Deadspin.

This is pretty much the inevitable result with the weighted Champions League concept with multiple teams from a few associations gaining access while other associations have to fight it out in July or August for the privilege of getting stomped on for six game before trotting off to the Europa League (if you are…

I don’t think there’ll be a little less joy in beating Arsenal without the endless shots of sad and depressed Arsene

This comment desperately needs to be ungrayed.

I can’t wait to see what Billy packs into 3,000 words and one sentence on this story.

Anyone checked on Billy?

Finally the Billy take.

Allow me to disagree, a tournament is the best way to crown a champion. In the European football system, the champion is usually pretty much pre-determined, spend bigger than everyone else, have a halfway competent coach (or in Man City’s case, a very good one) and you’ll win. With nearly a month and a half left in…

I’m only just getting over the Houston Rockets winning the NBA championship a few weeks ago.

Even this year’s relegation battle sucks too! The most interesting storyline left is whether Burnley can finish ahead of Arsenal, which is, uh...not quite compelling.

Besides the end of the ‘11-’12 season, the relegation battles are usually more memorable than however or whenever the champions clinch it.

For the love of god please stop posting links to things we can’t watch outside of the usa.

“Quite dramatic language there for something so seemingly meaningless!”