Soccer, Sports and Politics - Part Deux

Reminds me of my coaching days!

 

You don't know 'Merican soccer club mandatory FCRealUnited naming conventions, do you?

 

You could be like the Revs, when they came out with their new badge a couple of years ago, with the tagline "No FCs Given."

 

FIFA Women's World Cup expanding to 48 teams for the 2035 tournament in the UK, per Sky News.

 

Concepts generally aren't good team names. Revolution, Jazz, Heat

 

Right. If a kid can't draw a picture of one, then it sucks as a name. What does a mutiny look like, a space bat?

Like the Utah Mammoth, why couldn't they put an S on the end of it so each player would be an individual mammoth? So they all are supposed to make up one complete mammoth?

 

Because it's an adjective and not a noun?

 

How's about The Tillies!

 

COYBC! Really hoping we can get the Tyne Wear Derby back in the Premier League

That said, with Coventry we'd get Lamps back in the top flight, and with Sheffield we'd get another American ownership group.

 

LFG! USA smash Denmark 5-0 at the Worlds in Herning, Denmark

 

Let's save the excitement till the Czech game.

 

Why the need to save? I've got enough of it to go around.

 

Jack the Rabbit and Weak Knee Willie, don't you know they're gonna be there
Ah Sloppy Sue and Big Bone Billy, they'll be crossing balls in the air
We're gonna play football, skip some school
Act real cool, 4-2-3-1, it's gonna work out alright
So Roby, play striker tonight, little baby, play striker tonight

 

Photos like these are going to have liberals actively rooting against Poch and the lads

 

Nobody will have to root against the Pooch boys. They ain't going nowhere.

 

I wouldn't mind being a striker but you're 3k miles away.

 

Given FIFA's credibility the group draw should be done by an independent body. The Orange one and his cabinet would be perfect!

Ps..the USMNT has a decent chance if no European or South American teams qualify.

 

Surely gonna get out of the group, no?

 

At least Panama won't be in our group,so maybe.

 

Given the mental makeup for the team, I give it a 50/50 that the USMNT makes it out of the group.

Its saddening that a generation after Beasley and Donovan shocked the world, that this supposed "golden generation" can't do much better than win stoopid cashgrabs on home soil.


That said, given FIFA's moronic overexpansion of international play, their cozying up to human rights violators/dictators, their corruption, and their letting migrant workers die in the desert, its hard to care as much as I once did.

 

1994 WC in US

• Total Attendance: 3,587,538
• Average Attendance per Game: 68,991
• Number of Venues: 9
• Number of Matches: 52

They'll be 104 matches in '26
Will need an average of 34,496 bodies in the seats to beat record. I went in '94...I ain't going in '26!

 

I see 2026 shaping up like this:

WC final will be USFCUnited over Mexico, Dos A Cero at MetLife. I run on the field naked painted red, white & blue. Listen to the celebrations inside the East Rutherford police station.

Semiquincentennial of the US 'Merica followed soon after by a Donnie coronary. Maybe that day.

Tottenham finishes inside the top 10...maybe.