Soccer, Sports and Politics - Part Deux

Thats equally stoopid, because I've likewise not seen that work on officials.

Tirades are stupid, and so are player bïtching at the ref.

 

FC Köln and Damian Downs win the 2 Bundesliga and automatic promotion!

 

Today we are all Crystal Palace fans. Im out of town at a wedding, so pissed I couldn't watch live. As a kid living in England, Palace were my second favorite team, going from 4th division to 2nd in three years, largely because of their name. Still is the best team name in soccer.

 

What is the plural of mammoth?

 

I'm partial to anything with a Lokomotiv in it or oddballs like Newell's Old Boys or Real Salt Lake FC Deportivo Maybe-Not-So-United

 

Why do you hate me?

 

Maple Leafs and Jets both eliminated. Last Canadian club remaining are the Oilers… again.

 

Extinct

 

Yeah, I love some of the South American team names. So many named after the neighborhood they were founded in or some other random name or even club they supported back in the old country. Some I like
Bolivia's The Strongest
Chile's Colo Colo
Colombia's Millonarios
Argentina's Ferrocarril Oeste

 

Another game 7 yawner to go with that basketball game 7 on the same weekend.

I'm not sure what added value playoffs really have, especially the bloated variety (?)

Just glad most futbol leagues have stuck to the double round-robin / league format to determine the champions and pretty much everything else. I mean, how dramatic was Serie A yesterday, Ligue 1 the day before and Eredivisie last week (or last several weeks)?

 

Mrs CPs team



Dang - when did he start swimming in Barry Bonds pool?

 

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Ay, Wooly Bullys!

 

My interest there was to see if it would take until the last matchday of the season for Arsenal to secure a top 5 spot.

 

Sorry, the best we can do right now is Steve Nicol and Ray Hudson.

 

Wouldn't it just be Mammoths? Not like Fish or Moose

Nah, that's just hearsay, based on what Maddie told Hattie. For all we know, she watched Fox News.

 

I thought mammoths was too easy. I mean why would you not have the s. It's like going Red Bull instead of Bulls. Makes no sense.

 

If your job is to sell more sodie pop, it makes perfect sense.

 

I never paid much attention to the comments but when directed at a 13 yr old kid doing a u-10 match the line has been crossed.

 

Gary Lineker posted an image of a rat in a social media post about Zionism, so he’s out at the BBC after this weekend.

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/45219597/gary-lineker-leave-bbc-not-present-2026-world-cup

1. It kind of amazes me how in England, all the pundits whose political opinions I know are all lefty, like Phil Neville and Lineker.
2. How he thought posting a rat in a post having anything to do with Jews is mind boggling. To me it’s as obviously over the line as posting an image of an ape when taking about black people, an automatic firing. I am not deep in the context of England or Lineker so maybe within the context it’s not as brain dead as I’m imagining it.

 

He's 64 and headed the ball a lot.So there's that.
Also,according to the right,it's the left that are antisemitic now.

 

I remember Pat Buchanan’s 1992 campaign, so it’s hard to wrap my head around this. The politics I grew up with and then our politics through my young and middle adulthood had anti Semites all on the right, not the left.

That’s not true anymore. Much of the pro-Palestinian sentiment that is on the left is fair criticism of Israel, but some of it is anti Semitism. It bothers me. I don't have any idea how to change that. Neither does anyone else that I’ve seen.

My position is that all bigotry is bad, not just bigotry against groups I don’t like. The left has fallen away from that.

 

if you’re already a shark, I’m not sure you need PEDs. You’re already the alpha predator. Doing steroids is kind of rubbing it in, no?