Don’t worry, afterwards Phil Neville reassured them that it was a nonsense game anyway.

I was thinking of pretty much anything with modern portrayals of queer characters, so yeah, DCTVU is a great pick.

nothing like a World Cup final to come out of the very transparent closet?

Heh. Miedema-Fischer had me struggling to decide which gay tower to root for, but as an American I like making the winners run an extra 30.

Oh, god, let it cause a good dyke joke.

I do hope they’ll be more aggressive in the final. They certainly didn’t bunker against Japan in the last one.

Speaking of athletic bloodlines, did you know former USWNT midfielder Lauren Holiday is married to Jrue?

They went to the corners a few minutes too early. By the game clock it was like the 89th minute, but you have to know with 2 VAR checks and all the substitutions you’re going to have 5+ of injury time.

I don’t think it makes much of a difference so I’m just rooting for extra time :)

Jill’s nuts and the US depth enables it- there’s a good chunk of fanbase that thinks Horan is the world’s best midfielder, and Jill brought her off the bench for two consecutive elimination games.

Too much mind-meld with the Canadians?

BBC says Bardsley’s hurt, so it looks like England didn’t have a choice.

We already knew from the whole Russia investigation that they’ll root for a foreign country if they think it can own the libs.

Mary Louise doesn’t even get a thank you from Bonnie for the “I would have remembered someone so beautiful” line.

Yeah, it’s hard to say what the game would’ve looked like without the early goal, but I’d characterize the game more as France gonna France rather than the US killing it.

IMO this is bad but less bad than the France one- at least Germany lost to a team that could’ve knocked them out of a hypothetical Olympic qualifier.

yeah, the abandoned group is just embarrassing.

But DPRK only wound up in that group with ROK as a residual penalty from their mass steroid ban before the 2015 cycle- that’s not how AFC qualifying usually works.

I love it.

Literally never going to happen! We can only hope she chooses to retire.