“My friend, is OK, no?” is exactly what I expect Santi Cazorla to say in that situation. 

The business side is definitely an important point in Ronaldo’s favor, and yeah, I don’t know how to read the numbers at Transfermarkt.

Oh dammit.

They were in the same group as ManU, Young Boys and Valencia, and they faced a not great Atletico team in the Round of 16. They would’ve been fine.

Higuain had 22 Champions League goals in his 2 seasons with Juve (he had 48 with Real Madrid, didn’t play in CL with Napoli).

I think there are a few of things happening:

Though in this case, Billy’s point isn’t really bullshit! The media, supporters and the club (112 million euro transfer fee!) all expected Juventus to exceed their baseline performance of cruising to the Scudetto and advancing to the CL knockout stage. In retrospect, it’s insane, but most people seemed to buy into it.

Given Lee Cattermole’s history of violence against other players, that’s basically the soccer version of the Spider-man meme.

Juve’s addition of Cristiano Ronaldo in the summer understandably ramped up expectations

I’m old and dad-brained and I fucking tear up watching the big battle scene in Endgame or that viral video of that karate kid who can’t break the board so it might not be saying much, but those two paragraphs of people who basically kept Drew alive hit me hard.

Oh god, every point scored by a Suns player is, by definition, empty calorie. 

Definitely Bob Marley “Legend” or John Coltrane “Blue Train”. Maybe an Ansel Adams Yosemite print—it lets girls know that you’re into the arts and the outdoors.

Nah, that was his way of avoiding race, because putting a happy face on it and saying “Actually, I’m multiracial” ignores the racial dynamics in America, i.e. if you have even a drop of black blood, you’re burdened with blackness.

Atletico Madrid will somehow find a way to win this.

No I am sorry for you, Mr. Thompson.Your day will come at the hands of our maker.

I’ve thought about this way too much, but I’m still kinda awed by the 1987-born class of Messi, Cesc, Piqué and Pedro. There hasn’t been a class like that before or after, I think. Busquets was born in 1988 and Jordi Alba was born in 1989 and things kinda tails off after that.

Not when either scoreline isn’t a good indication of how the games flowed.

A team can be good enough to win La Liga easily and be inferior to a team that has 94 points in the Premier League.

It’s also possible that Liverpool is better both individually and as a collective.

I think La Masia has always been a wee bit overrated, at least as a talent production pipeline. It’s true that the Rijkaard/Guardiola teams were built around La Masia products, but that was an aberration rather than the norm. I don’t want to dismiss what they do—it’s important that academies instill playing…