Yep, I definitely look bad here for being out of date on European tiebreakers. I wasn’t aware they’d changed the rules since Chelsea. In fairness to me, it’s not exactly like EPL teams have fared so well as to make it an issue.

You’re angry! It must be fun to know you IRL. Sorry that being my being out of date on European tiebreakers so greatly offended you.

Not sure you can infer that from the general quality of Billy’s articles, but agreed that I was wrong. Missed the rule change.

Fair play. Was unaware of them changing the rule.

Pleased to admit I was wrong because I’d missed the rule change. In fairness to me, it’s not exactly like EPL teams have been so competitive lately that it’s come up.

Yes. That is in fact the biggest hurdle Manchester United face as far as playing Champions League football next season. Billy didn’t mention it because well, it’s a Billy article.

Draymond Green is so much more skilled, athletic and well-conditioned than any PF in 1993-94. He would be monumentally destructive in that era. The more relevant question is whether we will remember Draymond as a better player than Charles Barkley.

Given that the AM were dominated today, lost the game and still advanced, is it unreasonable to call them a butt team in the headline? I thought that was the Billy standard for teams which employ the exactly right (but cynical, non-Barca, non jogo bonito) tactics they need to win.

My favorite part is that taking down the teepee to sell more seats is “understandable” whereas being not being racist is just being overly sensitive.

The trouble is the last minute is a microcosm for the entire game: on any given play in the NBA you could call a half dozen infractions. Calling based on advantage is far better than calling a foul for every possible interpretation of a rule infraction. Missing the shove was ridiculous, but the scrum around a loose…

Ha, FA Cup. Good one.

The Canadians do know the Olympics are in Rio, not Vancouver right? Suits? Sweatshirts? Even though it’s winter it is hot and muggy AF in Brazil right now.

But that’s why I am suggesting a controls P/R with only two divisions. You wouldn’t go from playing the LA Galaxy to playing in a Des Moines high school field, you’d at worst be stuck playing The Philadelphia Union or the latest expansion team.

Is there any precedent for limited relegation? In other words, relegation from the First Division and promotion from the Second Division, but a floor on the bottom of the Second Division?

I too began posting to down a Billy Haisley article.

I am curious to know what Messi, Neymar and Suarez thought of the game. I wonder if they watched with Billy.

I don’t want to get into victim blaming, but when— with an empty net— you hold onto the puck for that long, skating from the top of one penalty circle to the other, you sort of deserve what happens to you.

Philadelphia sporting arenas are the comments section of the sporting world. Because they culturally embrace this kind of nonsense they in turn attract the worst kind of people as fans, who see permissible anti-social behavior as part of the draw.

In fairness they’ve won 3 Premier League titles, all under Arsene, which makes him the most successful manager not named Sir Alex. But hey, let’s keep acting like winning the league is easy or that Arsenal haven’t been among the best at doing it.

It should be mentioned in every story about the Bulls 72-win campaign that it was in an expansion year. That means that not only were there two teams which were historically bad, but every other team in the NBA lost an important bench player / rotation guy. Winning 72 games is never easy, but it was easier that year…