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[JHBulls]

27 minutes ago, imb said:

one of the worst takes of all time on nsbb

I wasn’t making light of the crowd troubles that delayed the match. Like the Euro 2020 final at Wembley, it sucked but it was understandable to keep people safe. 

[Rex Buckingham]

1 hour ago, JHBulls said:

I wasn’t making light of the crowd troubles that delayed the match. Like the Euro 2020 final at Wembley, it sucked but it was understandable to keep people safe. 

could be off base... but I think it was the Shakira part that was the bad take

edit: I'm an idiot and missed that you called people thugs... the problems getting in were due to the match organizers...

Edited July 15, 2024 by Rex Buckingham

[javy knows my name]

No it was the thug part 

[JHBulls]

55 minutes ago, javy knows my name said:

No it was the thug part 

Okay, I’m sorry. That wasn’t the right thing to say. It was annoying seeing the game delayed like that, being it was the second major international tournament final with a delay like that in 3 years. But I directed my annoyance at the wrong people. I’ll do better with my wording in the future. 

Edited July 15, 2024 by JHBulls

[CubinNY]

Not to tangent this thread- the word Thug comes from a band of people in India called the Thuggies. The British East India company and the military stationed there invented them as a means for getting more money and supplies to subjugate the people of India. That is to say, there really were people called Thuggies -but they weren’t terrorizing the local population nor the British. It was all just more racist propaganda. The term is inherently racist. No blame to you Jh.

[JHBulls]

2 hours ago, CubinNY said:

Not to tangent this thread- the word Thug comes from a band of people in India called the Thuggies. The British East India company and the military stationed there invented them as a means for getting more money and supplies to subjugate the people of India. That is to say, there really were people called Thuggies -but they weren’t terrorizing the local population nor the British. It was all just more racist propaganda. The term is inherently racist. No blame to you Jh.

Thank you for that.

The word “thug” as I know it, being from Australia, is basically a slang word to mean a violent/aggressive person. I definitely didn’t mean it in a racist way, but your post has opened my eyes to the fact that the word means different things in different places. I’ll take better care of what I am posting in the future.

Edited July 16, 2024 by JHBulls

[wolf stansson]

I agree that the conmebol officials who pocketed the extra money they should have spent on security are thugs. 

 

Columbia-Argentina in Miami was such an obvious red flag that friends and I who are inter Miami ticket holders were texting about how insane the atmosphere was going to be as soon as the final was set. Total unforced error by conmebol. I went to a Miami-FSU game last year that was absolutely packed with security everywhere. Not a hard rock stadium issue.

 

 

how we feeling about Southgate as USMNT manager, folks?

 

[imb]

i was talking about the insanity of not being horny for shakira

[imb]

28 minutes ago, wolf stansson said:

how we feeling about Southgate as USMNT manager, folks?

 

why would you say this

[Transmogrified Tiger]

This would be one of the funnier real life 'not like that' instances in recent memory

 

 

[stitchface]

On 7/16/2024 at 8:22 AM, wolf stansson said:

how we feeling about Southgate as USMNT manager, folks?

 

I honestly don't know how I feel about Southgate. I do think experience matters in a national team coach as for many of the reasons TT pointed out, it's very challenging. you have to adapt your system to your players as you can't recruit players for your system.

[Rex Buckingham]

I think the US would be easier for Southgate to manage because it seemed like a large part of his issue with England was team selection and there just aren't as many good options on the USMNT roster. And for as ugly as it was, you can't argue that he got results. 

[wolf stansson]

he’ll Jack dudes up

[stitchface]

34 minutes ago, wolf stansson said:

he’ll Jack dudes up

he's been super unsuccessful at club though, hasn't he? Tell me something that makes me excited about this

[mul21]

6 minutes ago, stitchface said:

he's been super unsuccessful at club though, hasn't he? Tell me something that makes me excited about this

Twellman says he's good at yelling at people.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Viera has cachet with players thanks to his playing career, speaks excellent English, has familiarity and success coaching US players, and otherwise for club has not been actively bad(which is the maximum you can hope for).  Hard to do much better than him, IMO.

[wolf stansson]

I just don’t think you’re going to convince a major club manager like Poch to manage a national team that isn’t one of the big brands, so Viera is realistically as pedigreed an option as we’ll get. I think there is reason to be optimistic that he’ll create a greater sense of competition within the squad that will hopefully result in stuff like Tyler Adams not going into business for himself when we’re down a man, Tim not slapping Panamanians, and Wes not tracking players into our box after playing 180 minutes the prior week.

[Banedon]

Oh noooooo

 

[stitchface]

Caleb Wiley signs with Chelsea

[UMFan83]

Mallory Swanson with 2 goals today in the USWNT's opening match win over Zambia.  At least one of the Swanson's is still producing at a high level.  

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

[stitchface]

4 hours ago, UMFan83 said:

Mallory Swanson with 2 goals today in the USWNT's opening match win over Zambia.  At least one of the Swanson's is still producing at a high level.  

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

she's so good

[UMFan83]

Men’s team looking strong today, up 2-0 early against New Zealand. Walker Zimmerman even get into the scoring column with a goal off a set piece. 

[stitchface]

4 hours ago, UMFan83 said:

Men’s team looking strong today, up 2-0 early against New Zealand. Walker Zimmerman even get into the scoring column with a goal off a set piece. 

I was impressed with their performance against France actually. They were not dominated and hit the woodwork 2 or 3 times.

[bukie]

US Olympic soccer advances to the quarterfinals to play Morocco, while group winner France plays Argentina. Egypt beat Spain earlier today to win that group, so the US ends up on Spain's half of the bracket. Final 8 look to be 2 UEFA (France, Spain), 2 CONMEBOL (Argentina, Paraguay), 2 CAF (Egypt, Morocco), one AFC (Japan) and one CONCACAF (USA)

[stitchface]

the lack of rest between games has turned this tourney to horsefeathers. they are all obviously exhausted. 

also, what happened to the beautiful game? The Brazilians are the worst men and women with theatrics, gamemanship and whining to the ref. I hope Spain thrashes them