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the sex ghost posted:The Hennessey stuff was even better because he went to an FA tribunal that everyone thought would be thrown out and then a panel of experts realised that no this guy literally didn't know that the second world war took place and thought that the hitler salute was just something you did at German people Hennessey said "from the outset" of the hearing that he did not know what a Nazi salute was. "Improbable as that may seem to those of us of an older generation, we do not reject that assertion as untrue," said the panel. "In fact, when cross-examined about this Mr Hennessey displayed a very considerable - one might even say lamentable - degree of ignorance about anything to do with Hitler, Fascism and the Nazi regime. "Regrettable though it may be that anyone should be unaware of so important a part of our own and world history, we do not feel we should therefore find he was not telling the truth about this. "All we would say (at the risk of sounding patronising) is that Mr Hennessey would be well advised to familiarise himself with events which continue to have great significance to those who live in a free country."
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Sometimes I just think about the headline 'Wayne Hennessey is ‘desperate’ to learn about the Nazis' and just laugh to myself
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Alctel posted:Sometimes I just think about the headline 'Wayne Hennessey is ‘desperate’ to learn about the Nazis' and just laugh to myself
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No one posted the picture of the offending gesture at the team dinner lol
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sticksy posted:No one posted the picture of the offending gesture at the team dinner lmao
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lmao that it's just a bunch of people being normal and then him in the back going turbohitler
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didn't he also say he was trying to signal the waiter
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yes, he was trying to signal the waiter, at the exact time a photo was being taken, by doing a nazi salute straight at the photographer
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I'm kinda an odd duck-- watched EPL/World Cup with my college roommate, forgot about the sport for a few years, went to a Champions League match last season, and decided that overall, the live fan experience for soccer was exactly what I wanted. I'm pretty much all-in on La Liga/Champions League. I figured it would take me a few years to watch it at an elite level, so here I am approaching year two. While I can't often see my main squeeze leagues live (gently caress friendlies tours in the US), I can attend and watch some MLS here and there. I've attended those matches and those fans don't quite have the gravitas of 87,000 singing fans, but they care a lot. And the passes aren't crisp, and attackers are sprinting at dribbling defenders just on the reasonable chance that the defender fucks up. It's sloppy at times. The general play is improving, the facilities are improving, and all-in-all the infrastructure for everything involving American soccer is improving. And to be honest, the fans are pretty friendly. Even Timbers/Sounders where Dempsey scored a hat trick to tie the game at 4-4, people were kinda just happy to see a close match. Soccer is keeping me, and many other fans, in the game and sending us out into ambassadors. And when the game grows in the US, it's good for everybody. Yes, American fans can be classic Sportscenter-watching dolts and that's kinda ok. Sometimes you need nothing more than loud people irrationally driving conversation, and there are dumb fans in every sport. Gotta reach critical mass somehow. Yeah, Americans have a weird relationship with this team between cheering for a legit underdog and then confronting people who want to talk poo poo about MLS/USMNT beyond just stating dispassionate facts, unfortunate realities of the league as it is today. Mostly NFL fans teeing off domestically, hyper-competitive internet people digitally. And yup, the overall product isn't as good as the stuff across the pond and we don't want to deal with those unpleasant facts so sometimes we lash out, just as the people who feel the need to attack MLS often do it due to some perceived slight against them from the simple existence of the MLS. America can be good, GREAT for soccer. What America can offer is their total, world-class media presentation and fan brains ready for irrational indoctrination into the sport. All it needs is the right seed and the handful of right players. The team/league/UEFA/FoxSports1 digital products are all second-class to NA apps like TheScore or even the Turner-media run league pages for the NBA. Or, you know, YOU-loving-TUBE strategy. San Francisco made, our web products are word class. If you don't like soccer stats being owned as proprietary data by Opta, you should see the reverse with the NBA: http://stats.nba.com/ The league even builds APIs for websites to use! Oh, and we're great at bringing in hard math and processes to create advanced statistics that can open the game up for analysis which hopefully leads to a more fluid, position-free, exciting game that can raise the quality of discourse in soccer talks. The discussion of advanced stats and their value is always a tough battle at first, but most sports are well through that fight in various degrees with NBA the clear leader in that the league fully embraces data and paid for every team to install tracking cams in every arena. Last year the greatest breakthrough in all attempts to gain a sports edge was... playing important guys fewer minutes over the season and playoffs so they were less tired than their opponents. So, uh... there are still little edges to discover too hahaha Let's combine the two! Through our giant media companies, we have websites like 538 that map out players mathematically to show that no, really, Messi is the no-exaggeration once-in-a-generation player and Ronaldo is behind him, but in some ways he's very very behind. They give proof! Sure, some sites like Statsbomb.com are trying to do it in the EU, but we have multi-million dollar media companies getting into the game here! Fans are more educated, better informed, internalize better processes for evaluating the game and they teach that to their kids! Also, eyeballs. Marketing dollars, so many marketing dollars in a world where basically the only TV ad time worth a drat is related to sports and we spend stupid amounts of money on sports, either as consumers or brand partners. The NFL has a target of yearly revenue at 25 billion dollars in 2027. That sport is so dangerous to play that it may not even exist in 20 years! The NBA teams made 5 billion dollars this past year. Even the paltry NHL had 3.5b in revenue. So, yeah, Americans spend and spend recklessly on pro sports. Also, the departments in Nike, Adidas, etc know how to integrate their branded gear into our identities to being emotionally committed to a product. We're not so cool with wearing the sponsors on the chest (besides the Nascar folks), but there will always be national team shirts we can buy, I guess and eventually we'll just cave to the corporatization of our jerseys and buy them because we're easily manipulated beasts. More money coming into the league, more money teams can spend to train and compete! Finally, what America does is get the kids. You can get the kids. Soccer won't just be a week spent once a year where kids play soccer poorly. Every kid has a sense of what's going on and the gym teacher feels compelled to teach the kids how to play the sport right. Maybe some more youth leagues open up, but what that really does is give each player a sense of the game where they can be a viewer and create some stakes for themselves easily when they watch. Anyway, soccer/futbol worldwide becomes far more successful when the American teams will inevitably find success in the world tournaments. America hitting the knockout stage is real cool and there's plenty of things to look forward to in the next 2-4 years.
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NinpoEspiritoSanto posted:didn't he also say he was trying to signal the waiter While cupping his mouth to be heard better, I think.
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Just remembered that England's never beat the US in a World Cup, and lol
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JohnCompany posted:Just remembered that England's never beat the US in a World Cup, and To be fair this was only the third time we've played them as they never used to qualify/get out of the group stages
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JohnCompany posted:Just remembered that England's never beat the US in a World Cup, and I just heard this team was in the European Championships final last summer? And the team that beat them didn't even qualify for the World Cup? What a poo poo conference that must be drat
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Just remembered Gareth Southgate left Foden on the bench in a 0-0 loss to the USA
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A Buffer Gay Dude posted:Just remembered Gareth Southgate left Foden on the bench in a 0-0 loss to the USA he's the missionary position of tactics
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sticksy posted:On top, doggy, or Southgate
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A Buffer Gay Dude posted:Imagine wearing that dress yet not having an rear end https://youtu.be/QyZD-qSJoLw
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TRP is a wag appreciation zone, compliments only please
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Actually that was just a rando that ran up to him to take a picture. Szcz hadn't posted on social media for 2 years at that point but felt compelled to break his silence (but then deleted it after he took some flak for his response)
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Yeah was gonna say iirc that’s not a wag! No mods no masters
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I hope I'm remembering this right, but the time Ronaldo brought his newly won Ballon D'or to a match (I think against Atletico?) and then proceeded to lose
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trem_two posted:Actually that was just a rando that ran up to him to take a picture. Szcz hadn't posted on social media for 2 years at that point but felt compelled to break his silence (but then deleted it after he took some flak for his response) Yea that's not very nice
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The Belgian Golden Generation
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JohnCompany posted:The Belgian Golden Generation
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When Belgium and Germany went out in the group stage on the same day of World Cup 2022 that was lol
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Kevin Lasagna
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just remembered that Germany got knocked out of the WC 30 minutes ago hehehe
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Insurrectionist posted:just remembered that Germany got knocked out of the WC 30 minutes ago hehehe
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