“large corporations back then did not necessarily adhere to a philosophy of ultimate Darwinism the way evil joints like Amazon do today (strong unions helped a LOT in this regard).”

It’s kind of stunning how all the three big European stalwarts, Real, Barcelona and Bayern, are all stumbling at the same time. I mean it was inevitable and, aside from Real, the two others aren’t even bad at the moment, but it still does feel like we are hitting transition period as described here.

I met him in Edmonton about a year after his young son died: he’d brought his family and a daughter’s friend to Calgary to visit his grandmother and then came up to the water park at West Edmonton Mall. It had been a goddamn tough year for him, his wife fighting her own cancer while his 3yo son was dying of brain…

If this happened against me in FIFA 17, that disc would get snapped in two.

naw, that’s amazing !

Yes! Editing error.

I still remember the time he picked up a first down on a 3 and 40 draw play. Magnificent.

Can we talk about how terrible David Alaba was for Austria in this tournament?

He’s one of my absolute favorite players in world football, one of the best left backs, can play about 32,316 positions on a football field... and he was just absolutely awful.

Just another reason why I love Bayern. You know, the club paying off their stadium loan 19 years early.

Another reason why I love Bayern They protested the ticket prices for their Arsenal match and continue to have some of the lowest ticket prices in top tier Europe play. You get ripped off in the EPL.

Bastian did say he wanted to try something new. Looks like he’ll now get to go play in Europa League.

Oh, that's rough. Another good pick to avoid that would be Wolfsburg. The clear second best in Germany with young, exciting players.