Soccer, Sports and Politics - Part Deux

This is why I will give more credit to Poch than the players if they make it out of the group.

 

lol City drop points to last place Southampton

 

Happy Mother’s Day!

 

At least Manu are consistant.....they got hammered by the Hammers today!

 

This is amazing

AC Milan players wore their mothers’ names on their jerseys for Mothers Day.

USMNT star Christian Pulisic scored with his mom—a former college soccer player—in attendance: pic.twitter.com/87tsJ79LcK

— Front Office Sports (@FOS) May 11, 2025

 

I don't understand...Arsenal is the best team on the planet yet they're down 2-0 after 20 min!

 

One would think I've learned not to count my chickens before they're hatched. When Agamemnon was kicking a pig bladder around the corn field his wife, Clytemnestra, told him..."there'll be time enough for counting when the match done!"
Arse 2...Pool 2

 

Light hearted, fun article about athletes who play chess. The writer connects a particular chess opening to Crystal Palace’s counterattacking style.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6343902/2025/05/10/eberechi-eze-chess-crystal-palace/

 

Gonna take a freight train
Down at the station Lord
Don’t care where it goes….

 

Bristol thoroughly thrashed. Sheffield await Coventry or Sunderland at Wembley.

 

The Athletic is doing a series on the Glazers’ ownership at ManU. Here’s one.

@Deadtigers

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6339593/2025/05/12/glazers-manchester-united-ratcliffe/

 

I love the pettiness.

Ahead of the Championship playoff semi final, Sunderland have moved their pitchside advertising boards inwards by 2 metres in a bid to prevent Coventry defender Milan van Ewijks long throws. Coventry have scored the most headers and goals from crosses in the EFL this season.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https://i.redd.it/99y94uwy2k0f1.jpeg

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1klmq1h/ahead_of_the_championship_playoff_semi_final/

 

Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson reinstated, now eligible for Hall of Fame consideration

 

Pete Rose is off MLB's permanently ineligible liar.

I'm sure MAGA Daddy will be taking credit.

 

He's always on your mind ain't he?

There has to be a name for this.

 

The name is Americanism.

 

Trump always on the mind. There's more to life than inserting Donald Trump into every conversation or thought that you think throughout your day. The poster above seems incapable of that.

 

Did someone (not you) say something? I'm seeing post 6165, 6167 and this one.

 

I don't understand this. Twisting the knife (a knife that can only be felt by his survivors at this point) by allowing the possibility of posthumous induction. Pete Rose is dead. It doesn't matter anymore what you do in his honor. Name the building, ship, or street while honoree can enjoy the fruits of their labor. Same with Halls of Fame. If you miss someone because too many teammates got in early (there are several 70s Steelers waiting or never nominated because of this) or something, there's a remedy for that, I think. My guess is Rose will get inducted eventually. But to deliberately let a man die before he could see even the possibility is foul if you're not going to just say, "
No, never". His family, who knows what Rose was to the game as a player, can say, "******** you"

If that happens, we may have reason to think Rose's character wasn't all that it could have been. Was he in the Trump/Epstein Social Club, maybe?

 

They really took the lifetime ban seriously

 

Sure, that's looking at it from one perspective. Another perspective is that the baseball Hall of Fame has been a joke for ~100 years and will continue to be until these 2 guys are in it.

Well, the loophole that enables them to be inducted still makes the MLB HoF a joke, but perhaps a slightly smaller joke.

 

Meh, San Francisco types always have the blinders on for that guy.