Back in my day, we just asked a slightly older guy who looked a little bit like us to sell us his ID for $50 then he'd get a replacement for half that. You then shop for beer in the seedier parts of town where nobody really paid much attention or where they might be afraid of thinking that all (insert your race here)…

Not many, actually. I saw one or two, but Austin is more of a college football town and, once again, it really is a soccer bar. They're more likely to show La Liga matches than NFL games.

I'm an American—a Texan, too. My friend and I met at soccer bar at 7:30 this morning to watch the early games. By the 10 o'clock games, about 100 people were there just to watch soccer.

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True, also Mexico has a huge classist problem, which is just as bad. USA still takes the crown on racism, tho

You can be Mexican and be of ANY race, even though the majority are of brown skin. There's still a sizable, but dwindling, black population in Veracruz (where the slave trade arrived) and the Costa Chica on the Pacific. Sad that many Mexicans are still grossly under educated or just won't acknowledge 500+ years of…

This dude has nothing to do with the league.

Man, deadspin chooses the weirdest football-related stuff to write about. No word about United's first good game of the season, along with DiMaria's perfect game and Falcao's debut.

Instead, he's decided to quit football and focus on soccer in hopes of maybe being the next Jozy Altidore.

Manchester City has turned itself into a global club, with affiliated clubs in MLS, Australia, and Japan. Its academy has always been highly regarded, and the investment made in player development is also high.

That's what the parachute payments are for - relegated teams get money from the Premier League for two years in order to help them offset the lack of revenue and get themselves sorted.

The way the article describes it, QPR was supporting their wage level in the Premier League just fine, they just lacked foresight in not including contract deescalators for relegation like I assume other teams in that situation do. That hardly seems like massively unsustainable spending, just dumb spending that wasn't…

Just one modest correction...and I still may be wrong:

FFP isn't meant to protect teams from spending themselves into oblivion. FFP was created to protect the big clubs.

Really, no mention of Chelsea? How is it that Chelsea have managed to evade this label of "All That's Wrong With Money In Soccer"? Because they did it 5 years earlier?

But naming your kid after Lionel Richie is still totally encouraged.

Zebulon, however, gets no such respect.

"dont throw darts at your classmates when you're 'bored'"

She's also not doing all the dancing and running around Taylor was doing.