I’m British and absolutely use American terminology (and avoid the use of “we”) when discussing American sports.

I didn’t have to check the byline to know that this was a Leslie Horn “article”. What a load of shit. Deadspin, get a fucking grip.

I’m not quite sure how Iain Dowie has been omitted from this discussion so far:

This isn’t in France, it’s in the Netherlands: everybody in this clip except Mr Knockyerteethout is speaking Dutch. He’s clearly not a postman, either, bearing in mind that a) he’s not wearing a PostNL or TNT uniform, and b) clearly doesn’t speak a work of Dutch himself, swearing, as he is, at everybody in broad…

“Gutting/gutted” is actually an adjective, not a noun:

“David Beckham/David Batty/Chris Waddle/Gareth Southgate/Stuart Pearce missed the decisive penalty/Paul Parker scored a staggeringly unlikely own goal, which was gutting. I am gutted.”

Agreed. Sometimes an ultimatum isn’t a bluff, it’s just, well... a question. Dipoto wanted to know how they were going to work, and if it wasn’t how he wanted to work, then he wanted to work elsewhere. Nobody’s winning or losing, necessarily: it’s just two parties agreeing that they can’t agree.

“Seizoen” is Dutch (or perhaps, more to the point, Flemish), not olde English.

The only explanation that makes any sense is that the Liverpool brass believe their own line every bit as much as their fans do.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

I imagine you’re feeling a little silly about this, right now, eh?

The problem was that, having originally agreed to pay the bribe directly itself, the SA Government got cold feet and insisted on finding some alternative way to get the funds to FIFA. FIFA, apparently, wasn’t canny enough to enforce the original agreement, and hey presto! One paper trail!

I reckon they’ll get another stab, anyway: Blatter will win this election going away, but will be forced to resign shortly thereafter. At that point, there will be another election, and Figo and van Praag can rejoin the battle.

As a Cubs’ fan:

So all those hockey games where guys stand around beating the piss out of each other for minutes on end without any actual, you know, sport being played - which is, if you can remember that far back, what we’re talking about here - are just a figment of my imagination, then?

Easy tiger. If you were paying attention you’d have noticed that the original complaint was with regard to watching for three minutes with just five seconds of actual play shown, on which basis, I stand by my original comment. If you want to get bent out of shape about how tough and manly hockey fights are, go right…

One of the things that makes rugby so watchable is that there’s almost nothing in the way of handbags at dawn, backchat or dissent. Punches get thrown, people get binned, and then everybody goes back to obeying the ref and playing the game.

Watched any hockey, or baseball recently?

Nor me

-Robert Fick

Never mind McCutchen - Sean Rodriguez has got some pretty sweet stirrups, there.

I get you are correct, but why are you such a dick?