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You just reminded me that I still have him on my EPL fantasy team that I haven't checked in seven months. Unfortunately, the rest of the team hasn't fared so well.

CLINT MUTHAFUCKIN DEMPSEY!!!

GRRR Not a Penalty. Murphy surely got the ball. (fulham-chelsea) edit: just slo-moed, def got a piece of it. Slightly two-footed, but on the ground and always going for the ball. weak sauce.

^lulz

not if she really really wants HIS point, if you get my point.

Just unclenched my teeth from my pillow after watching what Phil did on 4. Why oh why didn't he go back to the tee. Even a left-handed hack would've at least made it to the sand.

Oosthuisen with a muthafuckin albatross.

heh, I don't imagine there's any real difference between American Arsenal fans and British Arsenal fans. Maybe the guy in charge of the video art picked them at random. I wouldn't read too much into it.

Best part is he keeps doing it. Three times he's kicked out like that, and is damn lucky to only just now get a yellow.

Ballotelli with a studs up kick on Song that should've been a red.

Texas Pete! .... .... Don't want to jinx it, but Newcastle has a realistic shot at the champions league. Not just from Arsenal, but I wouldn't be remotely surprised if Tottenham lost/drew Norwich next week, and I expect Fulham to make a big showing against Chelsea.

Not sure if either team deserves to win this match. The quality is terrible, so many poor passes.

Love that Couples is making a run after his breakdown against phil a few years ago.

If I ever have a pet, it will be named peeve.

That's one reason I just cannot get THAT into baseball, hockey or basketball. The importance of each game gets so diluted, that you have to be a diehard fan to give a single fuck before the last month of the season. I understand that the hockey playoff teams are taken from the top single-table teams, and the parity is such that they do need a ton of games to spread them out. But baseball's a snore-fest as it is. American football is the opposite with 16 games in a season (they're thinking of expanding to 18), and consequently its probably the most popular because of this. College football only has 12, meaning you pretty much have to be undefeated to make the national championship. yup. this might help. http://www.mlssoccer.com/standings For some of the reasons I mentioned before, I think it is lazy and messed up. Since the regular season isn't the same for everyone, it makes the mls cup more important, when most would prefer the mls playoffs be abolished and more importance placed on the us open cup (our f.a. cup) yeah, that one. since we're talking about confusing things, most Americans still don't get the existence of stoppage time altogether. When the ball goes out of play, or someone is injured they're used to the clock being stopped, and the game being over when the clock hits zero. The fact that a referee could arbitrarily decide to extend the game for another 30 seconds just sounds silly to most.

Haha, I watched the game as well. They're both in the same league. just in different divisions insofar as the league is split into two (east and west) conferences. The idea of splitting into geographic divisions is derived from the other american sports which, because of the size of the country, usually have at least 30 teams (Hockey has six divisions of 5 teams each; NFL has 8 etc). Because there's no such thing as relegation (and a single table of 32 teams would blow), all of our sports are playoff oriented. So, if you support a mediocre NFL team, one doesn't tune-off if one is in 23rd place in the full table, because to have a shot at the championship, you just need to break the top 10, or have a better record than the other 4 teams in your division. /tangential context bit over So, most MLS fans are annoyed that there isn't a single-table like every other league, but it hasn't been a real issue til this year. Up til now, every team played everyone else twice (home and away), and champions league/playoff spots were based on a single-table comparison anyway (MLS also has a playoff system, but American soccer fans generally care a lot more about the table-leaders at the end of the season). But with 19 teams, and more franchises to be added, they're having each western conference team play each other 3 times, while playing the eastern conference teams only once (and vice-versa). Naturally this fucks up all understanding of how teams in separate conferences compare, especially since the venue's will be biased one way or the other. As for the extra time, I was surprised the ref didn't blow right after the re-start, but I've seen premiership refs extend as much as 5 minutes past the shown stoppage time to account for injuries and goals etc. (Liverpool vs. Arsenal last fall where it went past the 100 minute mark comes to mind)

interesting yes, insofar as it says more about la liga despite its lack of parity. I haven't really followed it, but its something to handily beat hannover and schalke. Not a fluke either with athletico winning it a couple years ago.

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Milan equalizes 1-1. Barca needs another.

I was literally just about to open a new mixtape thread(though the fact that I haven't had a free enough day til now probably makes you more qualified for the job). Since you've been a regular in the exchange, I wouldn't want it to interfere with you or any other college going member regardless of who hosts it, so the final deadline should probably be round early May or something as you suggested.

I have no idea what I'm supposed to take away from that puzzle piece acronym thing.

what in the actual fuck

hahahaahaha ballotelli throwing a complete hissy over Kolarov not letting him take a free kick.