I’ve tried to read and enjoy these comics, but the Darth Vader series just ruins everything for me. He is, and always will be, the monstrous, powerful villain of my childhood. Comics and prequels that reduce him to a petulant whiner who misses his mommy (prequels) and Palpatine’s incompetent whipping boy who is…

CR7 will find some way to blame this on Gareth Bale, right?

IN-GAME UPDATE: Deulofeu flailing violently on the ground; this time he actually got hit; No one believes him; Leighton Baines gets a YC.

It’s good that “punishment” here means allowing them to do the exact same thing they did before, but now they can’t be seen by as many people. No concern for the game itself—just how many people see it.

God is about to punish the citizens of earth by making this go to overtime so people have to watch more.

It skipped my birthday. SCREW Cassini and SCREW Saturn.

I think that you sort of glossed over one of the most amazing stats: they have taken a lead of 15+ points 68 times over the past two seasons. Just taking that big of a lead 68 times in 2 seasons is quite a feat by itself. That they also won them all is bananas.

Clip-on Man-Bun futures prices have soaring all afternoon. Get ‘em while you can, folks.

He’d have been taken off after that if Moyesie was still in charge. Epic dive.

Okay, fine, but if you’re right, then you have to admit that the problem started in Empire. You’re talking about Empire like the evil-monster Vader was the last glimpse of him, but it’s not! When Luke was rescued, he and Vader have a “moment” where they Force-communicate with each other, and Vader’s softened approach…

Quit victim-blaming.

Goose: Squeak!

The Top 4 is indeed stable. That is my point—it has been stable since 1992. Billy is saying that it is MORE stable now than it was two years ago.That is objectively untrue.

Everything you say is true, but it has nothing to do with what Billy Haisley wrote, nor my response to him. We are all agreed that EFC is not challenging for Top 4. But what Haisley wrote, and what I responded to, was the claim that Everton’s 5th place finish in 2014 was an aberration to the club’s normal cycle of…

Who?

Evertonians have to win internet battles, since we can’t win trophies.

“Uh” I didn’t say that it’s not stable! My point is that it’s not any “more” stable than it has ever been—look at the prior years. There is virtually no turnover, and what turnover does exist is minimal around the 4th spot and belongs to a select couple of teams (Spurs & Liverpool). To say that it’s “more stable” now…

Good takes, all of them. I love a lot of what Billy Haisley writes, and think he gets it right more often than not, but this is some of the worst analysis I’ve encountered from him.

“Everton are much closer to last season’s 11th place in the league than they are to the prior year’s overachievement of 5th. That season should be looked at like a fortuitous fluke in their natural cycle of upper-midtable finishes followed by 10th-15th place ones. The current top four are much more solidified now than…

No better way to make other countries take us seriously than to immediately worship their has-beens before they even play, right?