There you go: live and learn, eh?

He says he’s from County Cavan, which is in Ulster, so he is at least from the United Kingdom, if not from Great Britain. The show should be called “The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland’s got Talent!”, to avoid further confusion.

Re: Chicharito, yes, dead right. Re: the pass across the box, Ronaldo and Arbeloa are both (just) behind the ball when it’s kicked. At that point, whether they’re ahead of the defender or not is irrelevant: you can’t be offside from behind the ball.

Did they also include mis-use of words? Words like “corollaries”, for instance?

Naiévété? How paéssé.

The NASL is quickly proving itself to be the land of shitty keepers, it seems to me.

More than a whiff of game-fixing about this...

This is what passes for journalism on Deadspin, now? This site has gone down the crapper, and it’s happened incredibly fast.

Somewhere in England, Paul Parker is getting black-out drunk tonight.

I think I love you. Also, I think the idea that the Cubs have “a real shot at the World Series this year” is stretching things a bit. With Russell and Schwarber, next year? Sure, why not? In 2021, when they’ll now have an extra year of Bryant in his prime? Definitely. This year? Probably not.

I think you should make a distinction between his defense and his arm. His arm is Godly, his defense still needs work.

You've clearly never been to Germany, then.

"Someone back there was pouring fixedly, with the power of 10,000 lasers, at his phone and a map of the Twin Cities."

The BBC does show the EPL: "Match of the Day" is an extended highlights show on Saturday and Sunday nights. It might not sound like much, but it's one of the Corporation's flagship shows.

Also, I doubt anybody was pouring over a map.