“Clearly this dug is skilled enough for the Scottish Premier League, but whether it can hold up to the rigors of the English Premier League or La Liga or even Ligue 1 remains to be seen. The club would probably do well to sell it to a middling Premier League side, or one that gets promoted this season – can you…

At least Billy isn’t driving a steadfast campaign to call the dog’s team the “’Pooch Boys” against the wishes of every reader of this site.

I’d like to think he used the word “pedestrian” in a 200 word run on sentence that also praises Gerard Delofeu for some reason

And as everyone marveled at the dogs ability noted human buzzkill and self proclaimed football expert Billy Haisley jumped in and labeled the canine’s soccer skills “pedestrian”. Soon a wave of boos rained over Billy’s every spoken word 

You seem like a pretty smart guy, David. Why are you doing this?

It’s going to take me a long, long time to come around on that front end. I appreciate that they swung for the fences, but, man. Catfish vibes.

VAR ruined the entertainment value of that game only for City. If you are a Tottenham fan (COYS), that moment when the ruling came down and the souls left the bodies of Sterling and Pep was fucking amazing. If you are a neutral, it was also amazing for you, as so many neutral fans and commentators and writers have…

“Soccer has existed for over a century and a half without missed calls spelling the game’s doom.”

If it’s more important for you to have an emotional “moment” than to have a fair outcome, go watch a fucking movie.  

Deadspin: VAR is awful

Yeah, I don’t get this article. They showed the replay on every broadcast and even if you weren’t sure about the rule, you could infer it from the fact that they linger on the freeze-frame right as Bernardo Silva has his toe on the ball. Obviously that’s the crucial point that determines whether Agüero was offsides or…

Away goals is a tie-breaker. Going to PKs is a tie-breaker. How is a tie-breaker that involves actual 11-on-11 soccer stupider than the 1-on-1 gimmick?

“The rules are too hard to understand, so there should just be no rules.”

It’s “VAR made the right call, so despite any other legitimate criticism of the system, this article is like 1000 words longer than it needs to be.”

Agüero was clearly offside when he received the ball, though that would not matter if it were just from Eriksen’s back-pass:

Because the ball hit Silva on its way to Agüero (and it’s likely that it wouldn’t have found its way to the open space in front of the Argentine without the deflection), the VAR decision is objectively correct.

lemme get this straight: one of the problems with VAR is that correct decisions seems confusing to people who don’t know the rules and/or dont have access to the replay

Even a broken Ronaldo rapes twice a day.

Ronaldo just won’t take “no” for an answer.

rapey, rapey clockwork