People need to use the resources the Internet provides. Dempsey is Fulham’s leading scorer of goals in the club’s time in the PL, which both preceded his arrival and extended past his departure. This record was accomplished despite him never really being the focal point of the attack in any of his seasons with them.

Clint Dempsey had more than just one decent season at Tottenham. He had one fantastic season at Fulham, one other pretty damn good season at Fulham and several other decent seasons at Fulham where he saw time in most all games.

The MIL uses her phone in speakerphone mode almost exclusively. She’s also convinced Amazon and the CIA are spying on her. I think they, like the rest of us, can’t help but overhear her phone conversations. 

Because it’s Team USA and people will always turn up for that. Where do those people go after the World Cup is over? If the equal pay cheerleaders actually attended NWSL games, they might actually move the needle.

And then forget about them for the next four years.

Again, it’s not sustainable. It’s like looking at the Olympics ratings and concluding that America is crazy for skiing or gymnastics. Nobody watches women’s soccer in America outside of major international competitions. 

The women got a higher % of revenue off the WC than the men did...obviously that is a much smaller figure in dollars. The women also get benefits and a guaranteed salary - in fact, if you at the list of highest paid employees on US Soccers last financial form the only players are from the USWNT (~$250k). Because they…

As long as the women are full-time employees of US Soccer (in a strongly pro-USWNT article, The Guardian had their pay scale at $100,000 / year plus NWSL salaries of between $60K & $67.5K / year https://bit.ly/2ITTatr — much of it paid by the USSF, which suggests the USSF fact sheet is pretty accurate) it will be hard…

She’s intentionally mixing apples and oranges. She is using the success and popularity of the women’s national team to argue that a women’s professional league should be given more money. This, of course, completely ignores the fact that the women’s national team is not designed as a business. For whatever reason she…

She also wasn't playing against the best in the world like Ronaldo was. 

Every other major American sport had the advantage of being able to treat their labor like absolute shit for a substantial part of their beginnings.

What’s the value proposition for someone in a big city? The NFL - which is HUGELY popular in the US - has shown that just because a city (LA, San Diego) has a ton of people doesn’t make it profitable. If anything, NWSL should focus on podunk towns with nothing else going on. PDX is a soccer town, so of course their…

Or perhaps the reason USA women’s soccer is popular is more derived in a nationalistic sense as we are much better than the rest of the world at it (We watch swimming in the masses every four years one of the most boring sports in existence because we are really good at it not because its great entertainment and are…

I like soccer a lot and would like to see women’s soccer thrive. You touch on something at the end about the different energy at a women’s game... do you think this is the nature of the event? Or is it the demographics of the fans? I’d expect more women and more children than what you’d see at an NFL or NBA game,…

Cop or not, you do not pull a firearm on an individual, armed or not, who is not displaying any threatening behaviour.

Aunt Myrna’s Moussaka Surprise

let the country who didnt invent hooliganism throw the first cup of tea.

Your dog’s shit was probably all that was missing from her collection of all the neighborhood pets. If she knows where you live, probably consider moving...

I mean, Lebron and Kyrie fell the (pre-KD) unstoppable Warriors, and that was with Kevin fucking Love as their 3rd. I also am an armchair internet commenter, but for whatever reason I feel like Kyrie and Lebron have a much better understanding of each other after their previous departure. Lebron had to play with a…

Hard to say 100%, but that looked more like a miscontrol by the Cameroonian defender than a back pass. It’s not automatically a free kick just because the defender is the last to touch it with her legs or feet before the goalkeeper picks it up—it has to be an actual pass. I’ve seen plenty of instances in countless…