Was kind of surprised Saidy Janko has left Manchester United for Celtic. I thought he was supposed to be really well regarded at Manchester as one of their better prospects, but I guess he wants some playing time. And Adam Matthews is leaving Celtic for Sunderland so there's 1 + 1 at right back.

4-0 USA over Guatemala in final gold cup warmup. Score a bit flattering to the US, but many players looked good

Poor Micronesia were eliminated from the Pacific Games with losses of 30-0 against Tahiti, 38-0 against Fiji and 46-0 against Vanuata

Raheem Sterling should be shot out of a cannon from Liverpool to Manchester.

ESPN: World-class football returns to Tottenham Hotspur

That reminds me of this man

 

 

How many countries are in this country?

Oh My God

 

Preki becoming the Leicester manager is actually happening!

So Spurs are going to host NFL games at the Air Dubai Arena (or whatever it ends up being called), but the FA are saying they still want NFL games at Wembley even after that, and Shahid Khan wants the Jags to play home games at Craven Cottage because he owns Fulham as well...

 

They're going to have 16 overseas games a year eventually, aren't they?

 

For anyone wondering when the Premiership (Fuck you Levy, it's not called the fucking EPL) is going to reciprocate and play regular season games in America, here's when that's going to happen:

 

 

NEVER.

Why play the 39th game here when teams can make $$$ just with pre'season tours and the charlie stilatano cup?

Yeah, the only reason the NFL plays regular season games over here is because when they played pre-season friendlies, people stopped coming. When the 49ers were at Wembley a bit ago they had Jerry Rice in the studio, and he was saying he did set foot on the Wembley turf for two plays once. Whereas when big (or even not that big) Premiership teams go overseas to play meaningless reserve games, they sell shitloads of tickets.

 

Asia Cup next week. Arsenal vs Singapore XI, Everton vs Stoke City. Winners play each other in the final.Really want to see what a Stoke vs Arsenal friendly (on neutral ground, no less) looks like.

 

According to Yesterday's papers, Raheem Sterling is refusing to go on Liverpool's pre-season tour and has told Rodgers he won't play for him again. According to last month's papers, Ashley Cole was trying to hang out with famous Canadian rapper Drake, but a Playboy Bunny beat him (Cole, not Drake) up for being a twat.

Sterling's going to get a rep which is going to fuck him over later in his career.

 

Play nice, young man; it goes a long way.

Couldn't agree more. After all, remember the last Liverpool striker who earned a rep? Where'd he end up, anyway?

I don't really know if Sterling is good enough to go full Carlos Tevez and get away with it.

You can hear the HWEEEEEEEEEEEY from the crowd...

Couldn't agree more. After all, remember the last Liverpool striker who earned a rep? Where'd he end up, anyway?

chelsea.

For anyone wondering when the Premiership (Fuck you Levy, it's not called the fucking EPL) is going to reciprocate and play regular season games in America, here's when that's going to happen:

 

 

NEVER.

 

It hasn't been called the Premiership in 8 years - and this will be the last season with sponsorship - going forward it will be known only as The Premier League

I realize the FIFA rankings are the juiciest of low hanging fruit at all times, but the new edition is particularly so without even getting out of the top 10. Romania are a top 10 team in the world? Since when? Wales are above Spain? What?

 

Maybe this is all part of a plan to get people to stop saying bad things about the people at FIFA, and just return to making fun of FIFA in general.

From various folks on twitter, wales vaulted into the top ten by not playing friendlies, which lower your coefficient. And winning of course.

This is how the Canadian wishes he had finished that failed strike:

 

http://fat.gfycat.com/CoarseObeseElephant.webm

 

It hasn't been called the Premiership in 8 years - and this will be the last season with sponsorship - going forward it will be known only as The Premier League

 

 

In the UK, if anyone changes the name of anything ever, people will still use the old one for decades. Mars changed the name of the Marathon choccy bar to Snickers in 1990. Someone asked me if we sold Marathons last week.

 

You'd be surprised how many people still start to say Division One before correcting themselves. With the Championship, League One and League Two, most people still use Second Division, Third Division and Fourth Division, because they changed the names too many times and only the old ones make sense.

Calling them first/second/third/fourth division is really just an issue of common sense to me.

 

They can name the fourth Division the Biblical Hellfire Division if they want. It's still the fourth division.

NYRB send Dane Richards on loan to Indy Eleven. Apparently they're a soccer team and not a wrestling fed.

NYRB send Dane Richards on loan to Indy Eleven. Apparently they're a soccer team and not a wrestling fed.

 

You want to talk confusing. Let's talk about all of these non-MLS US leagues and which ones have hierarchy over the others.

NYRB send Dane Richards on loan to Indy Eleven. Apparently they're a soccer team and not a wrestling fed.

Surprised its not Indy XI.