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I agree that Dest was poor, but it also looked to me like El Salvador was determined to take him out of the game. A number of times they ran a third defender, hard, at him and Konrad, and I don’t think Dest was prepared for the numbers or the aggression.

Sir Alex's letter to Christiano:  http://grantland.com/the-triangle/listen-here-cristiano-sir-alex-fergusons-email-to-a-madrid-star-in-crisis/   Brian Phillips is all kinds of brilliant.   "David [Beckham] walked by looking, as usual, like the interest rate on the world's most erotic bank loan."

I think Johnson is pretty bad too. Certainly on the Benzema goal he was terrible. He has plenty of time to get tight to Benzema and just doesn't.

  Sanchez? Podolski worked very hard to get his hands on the trophy and appear in every pic.

Very excited to see them against City. No Enrique. Does anyone know his status? And is Reina really returning? Is he accepting the backup role?

In for a second year as Proleside. Can't wait.

Make it known that the ref will add double time for all time-wasting. Yellow cards are not much of a deterrent, and players would stop the nonsense if they knew it would lengthen the game.   Example from the other day: 5 minutes extra time, team ahead has a player lay on the field with a cramp...

But nobody that I've seen has made the claim that "resting a hand on a players arm is grounds for a penalty." First of all "resting his arm"is rather laughable. That's not what he's doing. It's not what his defenders have claimed he is doing, or what they claim he should be doing. They have...

I'll agree with Blundatola, even despite his retraction. It was a poor call. A terrible call. But Lovren put himself in a position where a poor call was possible. If you grab a player in the box with the ball at his feet, you invite the player to go down and you raise the possibility that the...

  Hmmmm, where have I seen something like that before?   http://imgur.com/GQXxQ

I'm surprised Cameron hasn't been called out more. I thought he was terrible, especially in the opening 20 minutes when he lost the ball repeatedly launching CR on the counter. And even after he settled, it seemed like any hard pass into his feet from the back two was likely to rebound a good...

So what do we expect from the next four days? The US is playing as well as it has in recent memory, and we're running out pretty close to our best lineup (on paper, anyway).  If Jozy plays, I think this is as good as we get.  On the other hand, this is close to the toughest two games we could...

Proleside is mine, not that I've posted enough for the name to make a difference. I'm currently in second, because basically everything I've done has gone right. It can't last, but I'm enjoying it so far.

 Agreed, and it was only the Villa goal that kept me watching.  Well, that and I seem to be willing to watch any game, at any time, if I have the chance. The acting is an odd game, because the players are all aware of the level of embellishment.  You see it when teammates rush to the side of...

David Villa (who I always liked) scored a great goal against his old team in the first leg of the Supercup.  The rare goal where he did everything: perfect hold up play, then the perfect through ball, then a brilliant outside of the foot volley.  Worth looking up.   Neymar with the equalizer, so...

It's easy to dismiss ConigliarosPotential's posts as entitlement, but leaving Arsenal aside, he's raising a point that is worth thinking about. I'm relatively new to soccer fandom (though it's been close to five years since I started paying attention and learning), and this is the thing I have...

I think I tried this league two or three years ago, when I was just learning the game and probably couldn't name 10 players from the bottom of the table.  I didn't last long. We'll see if I've learned anything since then.  Good start, with Sturridge as captain.  33 points, with half my players...

Doesn't this assume Paterno is a static, unchanging person? If he is an unfeeling monster who put success and the program ahead of real human children, was he always that person? Or did he become that person? How? And how did he convince himself he was the same pillar of moral rectitude all...

I think you underestimate how fascinating (I'd say charismatic) Buck was. I'd have listened to Buck O'Neal talk about anything. Can't say the same for Paterno. That said, my saying Soul was "Buck's book" was too simple. Joe had a close relationship with Buck, and that, combined with Buck's...

It's not just that we'll miss out on some posts (we will, though I agree he can't stay away), or that Paterno is a weak topic (he is). I wonder whether Joe's gifts lie in writing full length books. The Machine was a fine baseball book, but I found it to be pretty disappointing compared to...