No, you read that right, Bayern München played Bayer Leverkusen 2:0 (final score 3:0) in the Champions League.
Time for a tea break.
Football administrators often look enviously at the Super Bowl as an event. This year in New Orleans, Lamar drew a record 133.5 million viewers for his performance.
What?
The 2018 World Cup final had 1.12 billion people watching worldwide.
I don’t know how FIFA could scrape the bottom of the barrel after this. The 2046 North Korean World Cup, maybe? They always seem to find a way, somehow.
It is not clear why Man U needs a mosquito net – climate change?
I’m reading the book about the history concentration camps called One Long Night and I just started the chapter on the Chilean coup in the 70s… one of the people who was interned by Pinochet’s government talked about how he saw men he believed were from FIFA on the soccer field where he and thousands of others were being held in a make-shift concentration camp…
Realistically, Carlisle need to win 8 of the next ten games to stay up. Carlisle have only won 6 in 36.
Fuck.
Newcastle United have won their first major trophy in 70 years…
and all it took was a shit-ton of blood money from Prince Bonesaw.
John Oliver’s recent coverage of sports betting revealed how much has changed along with the laws:
Based on how it affects the games, players, and fans it sounds like the major winners are the gambling, gaming, and loan industries. The ads and revenues paid to franchises are just the cost of doing business.
The Celtics have been sold to a private equity dipshit…
The European qualifiers haven’t even started yet!
It looks like the third place playoff will be between USA and Canada. Normally I wouldn’t be picking sides but this time I will be cheering for Canada on the 23rd.