“every Nats fan in the world”

I love the unbridled optimism of this sentence, i.e. that there might actually be people outside the US who follow the Nats.

I love baseball, and this is cool an’ all, but let’s try not to pretend that the World Series is watched by more than three men and a dog outside of the Americas. I’d prefer it if we left the “the world watches American sports as well as soccer, doncha know!” myth-making to the NFL.

Falkirk’s finest.

It doesn’t actually matter what posters on here think, as 99 per cent of them are American, and that automatically invalidates any opinion they might have on the English language. You wouldn’t ask Chevy truck owners for their views on the latest Ferrari model, now, would you? All you need to know is that you are…

True, but if they’ve already qualified for the CCL, they can’t take part in the Copa Lib. (I think).

At the risk of sounding like that guy, it’s not actually unique to soccer - in Europe, a lot of sports have a fairly similar set-up, including rugby, basketball, ice hockey and even more off-the-beaten-track stuff like handball. The key principle being if you do well in your national league, you get to play in the…

“Whether Dunga is right or wrong here isn’t really the point.”

Excellent post.

The case actually got a shitload of coverage in the States.