He was tremendous, but I don't know about "unquestionable" man of the match because a) Argentina won, and b) Mascherano was a veritable giant today.

I'd like to hear from all the stupid fuckers who said Klinsmann was being unpatriotic and defeatist. Did you see this?

You made Brazil score! Ha ha ha ha.

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cosmic justice. i thought it was a fiction.

Transfer records aside Brazil's attack has been atrocious this World Cup if you don't count Neymar. As you said in your other post, it's the worst generation of players in a long time. On the other hand, Colombia aced CONMEBOL qualifiers and was playing extremely well—even without Falcao. On an open game, that day,…

Well, by the look of the lineups, it seems like there will be no Pepisms today.

Ha ha ha that's very true— at least that's his reputation.

Oh, that study, I wasn't even thinking about that, yeah, who cares ha ha. I know nothing about unconscious mechanisms but I know about stuffing the ref's pocket! Can't say it happened though.

Yes, they both fouled freely without getting penalized so from that perspective nobody was favored. However, we saw Brazil pull out the machetes after they scored, and Colombia responded in kind. A game in which nothing happens favors the team that is ahead on the score—in other words, Brasil scored and froze the…

FIFA is currently investigating the incident and looking into whether it will penalize Juan Camilo Zuñíga

Tell that to Del Bosque.

It's a sad fucking movie full of assholes on display but for those who see sports as a business I guess it's proof that you can make money by promoting a team. I just meant it as a counter to the notion that American bazillionaires don't want to buy a team that could get relegated. And yet, the guy who owns the Red…

Right! Actually Liverpool is owned by the Boston Red Sox ha ha ha.

Followup to my long ramble above:

They're tremendously superweird when you come from a global sport in which local rivalries are at the core of things. While less and less clubs are member-owned these days, most clubs still have their roots in specific cities, even specific neighborhoods. The only American sports team I know is like that is the Green…

I've been here since the 90s and it's still weird. Good point about league domination though. But still—weird. And then again weird.

For every "buy high sell low" story you could have a "buy low sell high" story. Would you invest in the Alabammer Bobcats (or whatever) if you knew they had a chance to make it big? People do that all the time elsewhere.

Ah, the almighty American owner. Privatize profit and socialize risk. Pure pestilence.