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Reading the comments, folk's: it's good this time
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Huh that weird beIN sports network you're still not sure if you get or not is at the center of a WTO case brought by Qatar (beIN being a subsidiary of Al Jazeera) against Saudi Arabia; Qatar alleges the Saudis are pirating their signal and rebranding it as "beoutQ" as a weird jab in a long-running complicated political dispute between the two countries.
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Dec 19, 2018 20:28
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AsInHowe posted:In Detroit, we have the same thing, but for a fifth-division semi-pro team that doesn't actually play in the city of Detroit. It's the weirdest loving thing. Yeah, the Northern Guard thing is pretty cringeworthy, but not as bad as (and I think I read this) that any chants with swear words are strictly forbidden, especially when directed at Cleveland
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Dec 19, 2018 20:51
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Peanut President posted:do a lot of soccer teams play in loving baseball stadiums in europe too? Yeah West Ham 
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ElwoodCuse posted:Yeah West Ham I found a bass guitar recently in West Ham colors with the crest on it for $200
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:Yeah, the Northern Guard thing is pretty cringeworthy, but not as bad as (and I think I read this) that any chants with swear words are strictly forbidden, especially when directed at Cleveland that's what pisses me off most about US soccer fandom, that it's basically cosplaying as ultras while keeping it "family-friendly"
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Troy Queef posted:that's what pisses me off most about US soccer fandom, that it's basically cosplaying as ultras while keeping it "family-friendly" Don't even know how to make a newspaper into a weapon
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Dec 19, 2018 22:25
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tinstaach posted:Reading the comments, folk's: it's good this time They flagged his chopped victory dance as sensitive. All is right with the world.
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Dec 19, 2018 23:00
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Troy Queef posted:that's what pisses me off most about US soccer fandom, that it's basically cosplaying as ultras while keeping it "family-friendly" It's also why I'm moving away from top flight soccer over in the UK because it's being santised to hell, and a lot of the quaint absurdity is still found in the lower leagues like fancy dress away days, or Grimsby Town fans and their inflatable fish. Hell, I used to follow Slough Town in the dreks of what was the seventh tier of the English pyramid and during one particular drab county cup game, me and my mate Graham decided to chant "CRAB PEOPLE, CRAP PEOPLE, TASTES LIKE CRAB, TALKS LIKE PEOPLE, CRAB PEOPLE" whenever one of our players who had a reputation for only ever passing the ball sideways was in possession, and we did this for the entire game. We also used to break into "spontaneous applause" which was called that and would end when someone would call enough. You have to make it absurd and see what sticks
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Dec 19, 2018 23:18
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I love stuff like when that one low level English team said their Twitter feed had to stop during the match because the guy who runs it got subbed in
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Dec 19, 2018 23:25
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My favorite English team is FC United Of Manchester. When some American assholes bought a big stake in ManU in 2005, a bunch of fans decided to form their own club from scratch. It's member-owned and operated with a board of directors and meetings to make decisions on stuff. They've currently climbed their way up to the sixth level of the FA system.
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Dec 19, 2018 23:42
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skaboomizzy posted:My favorite English team is FC United Of Manchester. AFC Wimbledon were formed on less tenuous lines, being hosed off that their club was being relocated 60 miles north to the shithole that is Milton Keynes but are currently in League One... which is one division above where MK Dons, the team that their old club became, currently play. Also, I watched AFC Wimbledon paste Slough 9-0 which in club house when the Wimbledon manager was giving a speech one of us yelled "nine lucky goals" and fair play, the Wimbledon fans gave us a hand because we never shut up even as the goals went in. When it's going bad, and you can see it's going bad and you have fun with it, people appreciate it. It was also the first and only time they ever beat us in five meetings if memory serves
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Dec 19, 2018 23:58
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Wimbledon moving was amazing because if a US team relocated 60 miles they'd probably just keep the same name and nobody would care, but Wimbledon's relocation was considered such a travesty that it's like spoken of in hushed tones as something that must never happen again
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Dec 20, 2018 00:03
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I tell everybody that Crystal Palace is my favorite soccer team because I've been told their owner wishes he ran an NFL team and runs Crystal Palace as such, with eagles and cheerleaders and whatnot.
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Dec 20, 2018 00:05
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Feels Villeneuve posted:Wimbledon moving was amazing because if a US team relocated 60 miles they'd probably just keep the same name and nobody would care, but Wimbledon's relocation was considered such a travesty that it's like spoken of in hushed tones as something that must never happen again The San Francisco 49ers play in Santa Clara, nicely proving your point.
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Dec 20, 2018 00:09
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Feels Villeneuve posted:Wimbledon moving was amazing because if a US team relocated 60 miles they'd probably just keep the same name and nobody would care, but Wimbledon's relocation was considered such a travesty that it's like spoken of in hushed tones as something that must never happen again yeah, but it's loving Milton Keynes. Milton loving Keynes. A town we continually shun because we tried to grid it like the 'muricans do and put in a fuckload of roundabouts instead
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Dec 20, 2018 00:13
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skaboomizzy posted:The San Francisco 49ers play in Santa Clara, nicely proving your point. That's actually exactly what I was thinking of lol, or that old rumor about Oakland moving to San Jose. It's not as far but there's also Washington moving from RFK to buttfuck nowhere, Maryland, and the Patriots playing in Foxboro.
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Dec 20, 2018 00:15
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Every English club is over 100 years old and tied deeply to the identity of their little towns or cross sections of a big city. If the NFL was only in one region of the country and there were also 70 other professional football teams in said region then people would react the same way to moves as English people do.
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Dec 20, 2018 00:21
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Yeah I was gonna say, the entire league covers an area that is roughly the size of like Iowa so I think that changes the perspective a bit.
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Also their teams are individual clubs, not franchises
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England is just the Mel Gibson’s Dad to America’s Mel Gibson
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I think the Ringer's coverage is the pinnacle of bad Americanisms. It excessively combines all the British terminology while obsessing over advanced statistics that no one in soccer media (nor soccer fans) gives a poo poo about. I swear on one podcast (which I quickly turned off) Chris Ryan basically said "they have a tough run of fixtures coming up and if their expected XG stays low the fans will be calling for another sacking."
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Dec 20, 2018 02:52
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Inspector_666 posted:I tell everybody that Crystal Palace is my favorite soccer team because I've been told their owner wishes he ran an NFL team and runs Crystal Palace as such, with eagles and cheerleaders and whatnot. All americans should root for Palace, their colors are red white and blue and they have an eagle for their mascot. It's loving perfect! Also they're in the Premier League (don't tell anyone they're getting relegated  )
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Peanut President posted:All americans should root for Palace, their colors are red white and blue and they have an eagle for their mascot. It's loving perfect! Also they're in the Premier League (don't tell anyone they're getting relegated as a fan of a baseball team based in a flyover city that has seen better days, and everyone else in the sports world actively dislikes, it's only natural that when I started watching the Premiership on Fox Sports World I had a soft sport for Leeds (they're going up, because Marcelo Bielsa is a genius)
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Dec 20, 2018 04:26
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Peanut President posted:All americans should root for Palace, their colors are red white and blue and they have an eagle for their mascot. It's loving perfect! Also they're in the Premier League (don't tell anyone they're getting relegated Pretty sure I saw a Crystal Palace game a few years ago where they had a giant confederate flag in the stands.
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BWV posted:I swear on one podcast (which I quickly turned off) Chris Ryan basically said "they have a tough run of fixtures coming up and if their expected XG stays low the fans will be calling for another sacking." xG should be burned to the ground
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The first and second years of DCFC games were a lot of fun I thought just because it did seem pretty chaotic and unorganized. But then it just got really out of hand with the you can only stand here if you’re a part of this group, need to know all the chants, etc. just let me smoke weed in the stands and heckle college kids. Double lol at the supporters groups meeting up in like Plymouth and then driving down before games who would then unironically chant City Till I Die for 90 straight minutes. But I do think it’s pretty impressive what the team has been able to accomplish in such a short amount of time.
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https://twitter.com/drewmagary/status/1076194376781627392?s=19 Magary somehow got so drunk that he choked on blood and was intubated for a week.
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Henchman of Santa posted:https://twitter.com/drewmagary/status/1076194376781627392?s=19 They were all eating of Daulerio's flesh and drinking of his blood at the after party, and then things got out of hand.
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Henchman of Santa posted:https://twitter.com/drewmagary/status/1076194376781627392?s=19 Holy poo poo 
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Henchman of Santa posted:https://twitter.com/drewmagary/status/1076194376781627392?s=19 wasn't that how Bon Scott went?
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Troy Queef posted:wasn't that how Bon Scott went? Bon choked on vomit
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Dec 21, 2018 21:42
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Dec 21, 2018 21:43
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General Dog posted:Is he going to have a gravelly, masculine voice now? He already has a pretty deep voice. I was shocked when I first heard him because his writing makes me picture an obnoxious and nasally guy.
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Dec 21, 2018 21:47
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He deleted it. Story doesn't make a ton of sense unless he was driving and got in an accident.
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dadjokes posted:The first and second years of DCFC games were a lot of fun I thought just because it did seem pretty chaotic and unorganized. But then it just got really out of hand with the you can only stand here if you’re a part of this group, need to know all the chants, etc. just let me smoke weed in the stands and heckle college kids. Double lol at the supporters groups meeting up in like Plymouth and then driving down before games who would then unironically chant City Till I Die for 90 straight minutes. Dcfc has essentially the same supporter base as a Rick and Morty.
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Niwrad posted:He deleted it. Story doesn't make a ton of sense unless he was driving and got in an accident. Wasn't he in Manhattan? I doubt he was driving drunk in the city if he was visiting for the Deadspin awards
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Niwrad posted:He deleted it. Story doesn't make a ton of sense unless he was driving and got in an accident. It's definitely possible to vomit violently enough to tear your esophagus but it suggests the possibility of some pretty serious underlying issues too. If he'd gotten popped for a DUI it would have come out and like Adun said it doesn't really seem all that likely he was driving given the circumstances MourningView fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Dec 22, 2018 |
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