I mean, I don’t disagree, but didn’t Man City have a game in hand until late in spring, so it was effective a 4-point lead? (again, not really taking away from your point, but it wasn’t as big a lead as you suggest)

Last season, Liverpool was 7 points clear in early January with over half of the schedule completed, so it would’ve been pretty silly for anyone to assume this season was a wrap with an 8 point lead in mid-October.

And the “City” thing so confuses the Brits that they can’t figure out that Sporting KC plays in “Kansas City,” not just “Kansas.”

Do you mean “new” as in non-traditional? Cause the Revs have been around since ‘96 and the Sounders name goes back to 1974. 

That picture shows something good happening on a soccer field that has Michael Bradley on it so I’m guessing it’s about ten years old.

Or, imagine a truly despised team goes 16-0 in the regular season, blitzes through the playoffs, and then is upset by a(n admittedly loathsome if not by half) “underdog” led by a man-child with permanent derp face in some sort of culminating event.

Tráfico pt 2 is gonna be wild. I’m stoked for the Zlatan/Vela beef to graduate to full on hamburger.

I don’t care how they do it in Europe, playoffs are good.

Oh great . . . next the cosplayers in the MLS will feign a Franklin County independence movement to add intrigue to the big Columbus Crew / FC Cincinnati derby . . .

Speaking of which, my parents are from a tiny Portuguese village on the northern border. Every road sign leading into Spain and at the border has the word Spain crossed out and written “Galiza” I think most provinces would want to be completely independent of Madrid.

But if Catalonians gain independence what next? Independence for the Basques? For Galicians? For Castillians and the Canary Islands?

Both Xavi and Pep Guardiola—former Barcelona players, Catalans, and outspoken supporters of the referendum on the issue of Catalan independence—voiced their anger at the situation this week. Xavi called the prison sentences “shameful,” while Guardiola said “Spain lives in an authoritarian drift in which…

It is thoroughly disheartening and depressing to read how many people here don’t understand why this is a bad idea or outright support it. People are apparently okay with destroying the competitive balance and traditions of a sport so that grifters who don’t give a shit about them will make a few extra bucks. 2019,…

2014 was college sophomore year, eh? Welp, guess I’ll be dead soon.

Yup I do. The same way Americans have televisions. Even the players themselves are against this.

Well, I’m not left handed but Petr Cech most certainly is...

you do know that Cech is left-handed....

It’s befuddling to me as well.

Wait, you got into it, to say that people shouldn’t feel like they have to get into it?

Anyone could log off. Or they could write over 1000 words on the matter.