Football tends to be a bit too fluid for specific practice of a sequence like this... set piece see the most specific practice. That said, its not at all unlikely that Chadli yelled out for Lukaku to let it run in whatever language the Belgian team communicates in. Its common to yell these things, and its also common…

You may not know this, but apart from every 4 years when the winter olympics roll around and he gets thrust upon the american public at-large, there is an entire snowboard and skating industry the rest of the time. He has a career because he’s extremely competent at 2 mildly popular sports.

I still find it surprising that people find value in the skins. I guess everything else then derives from that.

In Europe and South America the kids actually only start playing on full pitches in their teens. The small goals and small pitches force the development of the skills that are most important to excellent soccer: ball control, dribbling and quick passing.

Which sport’s commentators are generally most in touch with the latest tactical/technical discussions that active players and coaches are having? (Instead of soccer commentators who are stuck talking about the game from whenever they played, 10 or more years ago)

The assumption where this all falls down is that the US is rich in a bubble, and independent of any of its laws or regulations, including those you accuse of being wealth-concentrating.

You use Hayek when its convenient because he rightly argued against the very existence of the Nobel in Economics he was awarded. But apparently you read nothing else he ever wrote or said, because he’d be the first to tell you that there’s no magical trick to making sure your entire society is paid “a living wage”, or…

As someone with a degree in Economics, who comes to Deadspin for sports & humor, and goes to the blogs of actual economists for his economics, I second your motion.