Apologies for my absence last week. Here goes!
Does anyone know if Sam Allardyce holds the record for shortest tenure as a coach for a national team?
Chelsea stopped the bleeding yesterday, but is it enough?
Manchester United seemed like they may have started to turn things around, but the Stoke game wasn’t exactly convincing.
I’m guessing that it’s not so much that all is forgiven between Juan Mata and José Mourinho as it is that Mourinho doesn’t have a lot of options.
Speaking of Mata, he is all class.
Share your thoughts on last week’s Champions League results.
rikyrah
‘Finally. Someone who thinks like me.
October 1 at 5:37 PM
excerpt:
She lit a cigarette. Her boyfriend, Kevin Lisovich, was next to her on the couch, drifting to sleep, a pillow over his head. On the ottoman was her cellphone, her notes on the speakers so far — “LOCK HER UP!!” she had written — and the anti-anxiety pills she kept in a silver vial on her key chain.
She was a 52-year-old woman who had worked 20 years for the railroad, had once been a Democrat and was now a Republican, and counted herself among the growing swath of people who occupied the fringes of American politics but were increasingly becoming part of the mainstream. Like millions of others, she believed that President Obama was a Muslim. And like so many she had gotten to know online through social media, she also believed that he was likely gay, that Michelle Obama could be a man, and that the Obama children were possibly kidnapped from a family now searching for them.
rikyrah
CLAUD ‘TEX’ MCIVER: LAWYER KILLS HIS WIFE, BLAMES ‘BLACK LIVES MATTER’ FEARS — HAD CHAUFFEUR DRIVE 4.5 MILES TO HOSPITAL
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
The tale that Claud “Tex” McIver, an Atlanta attorney, has told about how his wife was shot and killed at his hands is reminiscent of the movie The Bonfire of the Vanities. Like the below scene from the movie (warning: explicit language), McIver claimed that his driver took an unexpected turn in Piedmont Park, and with his proclaimed fear of Black Lives Matter protesters and car-jackings, McIver brought a gun with him on the ride.
According to AJC.com, Tex and his wife, Diane McIver, were being driven in their SUV when the tragic shooting and killing of Diane happened. Oddly, Tex sat in the back set of the vehicle whilst his wife sat in the front of the SUV, in the passenger’s seat.
That positioning put Diane in a position of danger, because the gun Tex positioned on his lap accidentally went off, according to him, when he fell asleep and the driver hit a bump in the road.
What’s being questioned by those who read Tex’s seemingly tall tale is why Diane was driven nearly five miles away to Emory University Hospital on Clifton Road, instead of a closer hospital. Mrs. McIver would die during surgery several hours after the shooting.
scav
I think there was one guy that beat Allardyce, but that was part of a BBC quiz I had no chance of winning so just guessed for fun.
ETA although after minimal googling, I wonder if the beeb got it wrong or I misread?
WereBear
@rikyrah: I can’t even comprehend how a mind like that doesn’t lock up its gears. Pure brain stem.
rikyrah
I’m in moderation…help
BillCinSD
Spurs are putting Man City to the sword. The play for Alli’s goal was phenomenal. Man City can clearly be pressed if your team has the stamina as both Celtic and Spurs have shown. Son and Wanyama have been excellent
rikyrah
Rylo Ken
@Kennymack1971
It’s gonna be hilarious watching folks who call Obama voters a bunch of “takers” passionately defend Trump paying next to nothing in taxes.
rikyrah
Emily CahnVerified account
@CahnEmily
OMG @chucktodd just asked Rudy if he’s the right person to talk about infidelities because Rudy cheated!!
Punchy
Bar’thelona won but looked less than impressive.
Baud
@rikyrah:
We’re in the process of losing the last rump of the Jim Crow Democrats. Not sure if we have a majority without them, but good riddance nonetheless.
Randinho
@Punchy: Do Catalans do the Castilian lisp?
rikyrah
shaunaVerified account
@goldengateblond
I think the best part of the 2016 election is how the GOP candidate says worse things about a Miss Universe than he does a Russian dictator.
Baud
@rikyrah:
And Hillary didn’t, despite what Trump wants people to believe.
scav
Found it, Allardyce is tops, they were asking for the former recordholder who was Steve McClaren with 14 months. As for random guessing, here’s a different short tenure quiz.
BillCinSD
I assume you are leaving out interim managers, but prior to the 1970s, the US had several one game coaches, who may have had a shorter tenure
rikyrah
Edward-Isaac DovereVerified account
@IsaacDovere
As the Trump team bores down into this “obtained illegally” point re the taxes, remember how gleefully they’ve pushed all the hacked emails
rikyrah
Jon FavreauVerified account
@jonfavs
I’m just glad we got confirmation that Trump is a Ponzi scheme before we handed him control of the world’s biggest economy.
BillCinSD
@scav: Shortest of England managers, I doubt that is true worldwide
Bill E Pilgrim
@Randinho: Long answer (No, basically, but there’s more, see comments also)
redshirt
One of the rare times an NFL game fits this thread.
Jags v Colts in London! Catch the fever!
Punchy
@Randinho: Let’s ask Leo Meh’thee
scav
@BillCinSD: Should have thought of that. I was just so jazzed I actually remembered the question. Must still be over-excited from staying up so late last night.
Amir Khalid
I think Jose Mourinho has discovered that the best position for Wayne Rooney in the Man United line-up is “left outside”. Wayne has become one the most dangerous players any team can have: one whose footballing powers are seriously declining, while his clout in the team has grown such that he is bigger than the manager. Big Sam admitted that he couldn’t tell Wayne what position to play for England.
rikyrah
Sarah KendziorVerified account
@sarahkendzior
CNN appears to have interviewed no one not white or under 50 in their debate poll. They polled Trump’s base. And HRC still swept.
Punchy
@rikyrah: How long before HRC cuts a “Billion Dollar Loser” ad? 15 mins? 8?
Randinho
@Punchy: Better yet, let’s go to Tharagotha, meet him there and have some grilled merlutha.
rikyrah
Jeffrey Wright ✔ @jfreewright
Imagine in ’08: ‘I’m Barack Obama. I lost $916M in 1yr, have 5 kids by 3 wives, once intro’d a porno & I want ur vote, white America. #Never
Amir Khalid
@scav:
I think Big Sam is the top England manager in another respect: he’s the only one ever to leave the job with a 100% record. One match played, one match won. One goal scored, none conceded.
Baud
@rikyrah: I know that point gets repetitive, but it’s so important. Hillary will probably win, but we can’t keep operating under IOKIYAR standards. We’ll lose in the long run.
rikyrah
Anyone seen Ferret Head’s Numbers?
Kyle Griffin ✔ @kylegriffin1
Inbox: Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine Raised More Than $154 Million in September for HFA and the Democratic Party.
2:47 PM – 1 Oct 2016
Mnemosyne
So the downside of overnight canvassing in Vegas is that we somehow managed to misplace two canvassers and now none of us can head to the field office.
And I’m on the responsible people van where we all showed up on time, so we’re all pretty annoyed.
Hal
Like Omarosa once said:
She was talking about another reality show “star” but I think her comment easily applies to Trump.
scav
@Amir Khalid: True, and statistics don’t lie so history is made.
My new favorite is from the tenure quiz: Brian Clough lasted 44 days in 1974 at a club [no spoilers] in the UK after getting off to a bad start by reportedly telling the players that they should throw all their trophies in the bin because they’d won them all by cheating.
Mnemosyne
@WereBear:
A front-pager posted a long article about the people who think Sandy Hook was faked. It seems like a combination of people who are not quite as smart as they think they are and people who have a hard time accepting that sometimes really horrible shit happens for no reason.
Amir Khalid
@Mnemosyne:
Are your missing canvassers not answering their phones?
Tripod
@rikyrah:
My S-i-L is spewing those Michelle is really a man CTs. She also takes a lot of anti-anxiety meds. Maybe they should stop dispensing that stuff like candy.
Tripod
England is a terrible job. The FA is subservient to the Premiership, the talent pool is thin, and the expectations are ridiculously high.
Mike E
@Amir Khalid: they got raptured!
edited to negate autocorrect
Villago Delenda Est
@rikyrah: We’re in the Spock-With-A-Beard-Like-Chuckles-the-Toddler universe!
Villago Delenda Est
@Mnemosyne: In the case of the Sandy Hook truthers, it’s the love of the gun being more important than the lives of children.
These people are publically renouncing their humanity. They don’t realize it, but that’s precisely what they are doing.
Tripod
@Baud:
Well she clearly got jobbed by the legal system, and should stop taking the anti-anxiety pills. But the economic underpinnings of coal communities are getting blasted. I’m not sure that’s something that can be solved for – any more than great plains towns that are gone to history, or decline of piece work manufacturing in the urban northeast.
The young and agile move on, and the stay behinds don’t have a lot of options.
Uncle Cosmo
@Tripod: Hadn’t seen that CT before. I know haters have to keep surrounding themselves with shit-filled comforters to insulate themselves from cold reality, but jeebus cripes, that’s really reaching.
Your SiL’s problem sounds like undermedication. But I guess you can only hike the dose so far before vital functions start shutting down.
Finally, when do we get an honest-to-goodness USAn (i.e., REAL) football thread? I don’t particularly mind or care if the “footie” faction wants to hunker down in its own corner of the blog, but kickoff for the 1 PM games is only an hour away. Time’s a-wastin’!
Jeffro
@BillCinSD: Spurs win!
Tripod
@Uncle Cosmo:
Mostly self-medication. Besides the pills she smokes a lot of dope.
Being a Bears fan, I could forgo NFL talk for the rest of the season.
WereBear
@rikyrah: That article is haunting me. She votes against the very people who are trying to help her and keep her alive.
Amir Khalid
@Jeffro:
Alas, their three points for the win lifts them into second place, knocking my club Liverpool down into third. Boo.
burnspbesq
Solid performance by Spurs. Is there a better pair of central defenders than Alderwiereld and Vertonghen anywhere in Europe? And the backup might be the best young American player (yeah, I said it, Carter-Vickers belongs in the same conversation as Pulisic).
WereBear
@Mnemosyne: I read that one, too. Similarly horrifying. Just a large group of people running away from reality as fast as they can.
Mnemosyne
@Amir Khalid:
Their team leader forgot to get their cell phone numbers, and they weren’t answering their room phones. They finally showed up 35 minutes late.
redshirt
@Uncle Cosmo: Since there’s an NFL game right now in London, I think we’re safe here.
As soon as the Colts switched to the hurry up, the entire game changed.
Which makes you wonder why you don’t do it all game.
Tripod
@WereBear:
Yep. On re-reading my take is the writer was hinting at a heroin problem in the household.
Amir Khalid
No breakthrough for either team in the Burnley-Arsenal match. The Gunners seem particularly wasteful with their chances.
WereBear
@Tripod: Mmmm. The boyfriend never was awake, was he?
Steeplejack (phone)
@rikyrah:
LOL.
Amir Khalid
@Thing Three:
Whereas with the gridiron sport, one spends more time fetching things to consume from the refrigerator. Fortunately there are so many breaks in the action that you don’t miss much.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Mnemosyne:
WTF?
I hate people who can’t be arsed to be minimally responsible when they get involved in some group activity.
RealityBites
Are you sticking around for the Barcelona game? I might not get to watch it all – got to work.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Amir Khalid:
Yep. Moral victory for Burnley approaching.
Randinho
@Amir Khalid: That miss by Sanchez was painful.
Amir Khalid
@Steeplejack (phone):
And they’re the only side to beat Liverpool this season.
Iowa Old Lady
@Steeplejack (phone): This is why you’d have to drug me to make me take a long bus tour. It’s always the same people who are late.
Randinho
That’s the way to snatch a victory. GUNNERS!
Well, the ref didn’t call two handballs on Burnley . . .
Amir Khalid
@Randinho:
Feh.
That brings Liverpool down to fourth on goal difference.
BillCinSD
@Randinho: clear handball by Koscielney for the winner.
eta: what difference does it make about other missed calls. There were probably several missed calls other than the clearly, obvious one for the winner that favored Arsenal
Steeplejack (phone)
Oof, heartbreaking loss for Burnley.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Amir Khalid:
What you said.
BillCinSD
Amir may never forgive you as his Liverpool had the huge win he had to talk about in non-soccer threads
Randinho
@BillCinSD: I’m joking.
Anya
@rikyrah: so, basically insane. Too bad for those economic anxieties though!
Amir Khalid
@BillCinSD:
I can forgive Randinho this once. But it better not happen again. Pout.
Randinho
@BillCinSD: I also edited that comment after I saw the replay.
That being said, a better team than Burnley would have at least tried to control the ball rather than spent the last four minutes simply clearing it. Thats asking for trouble.
inventor
Putin’s pedophile puppet will supposedly be pushing out more processed puss on Tuesday. He needs to be kicked to the curb so Scotland Yard can grab him and he can be prosecuted for his crimes.
Old Dan and Little Anne
I shared that “Grandpa voted for Trump” book cover yesterday. My mom’s friend of 55 years commented that the young should learn from Grandpa and my asshole Hillary hating college roommate said Grandpa is the wisest person. I take great delight in simply deleting comments.
Shell
Rudy was on Meet The Press cause…OF COURSE HE WAS! Who else would they have on? Has he taken over John McCain’s spot
?
Anoniminous
@rikyrah:
Stuff like that is what builds to a wave election.
BillCinSD
@Randinho:
so is just being the smaller team. It was the worst when Sir Alex was managing ManU
inventor
@Anoniminous:
inshalla.
Bill E Pilgrim
Math
Punchy
@Anoniminous: Wave election? I vote for Bondi Beach having some great ones.
planetjanet
The NFL theater is about as farcical as the Trump campaign. After enduring all the security theate, and military salutes at every break in play, they are now telling us to stand for the singing of “God Bless America”. I am pulling Kapernick. Don’t even get me started on not being able to bring a purse in the stadium. I also did not make it in because my purse is an inch too long.
Tripod
@WereBear:
And she was aghast at being in the process with green haired addicts.
They should have mentioned the railroads that jobbed her – Conrail for sure – and then CSX or NS after the sell off.
She still gets a better than SS pension at 62 or 67. The bridge there looks like a tough go.
Emma
@rikyrah: Jesus Christ. That’s all I have.
humboldtblue
@scav:
That’s an easy one — Damn United
burnspbesq
@BillCinSD:
Nope. That was a textbook example of “ball plays hand.”
BillCinSD
@burnspbesq: Ididn’t realize that having my hands round my head was a natural position. it was a textbook example of using one’s hand to achieve an advantage
Temporarily Max McGee (Soon Enough to Be Andy K Again)
@scav:
The Damned United!
A
@burnspbesq:
Yep, certainly the best in the PL. Possibly best in Europe. And CCV just renewed his contract with spurs. Had a pretty good outing in the league cup against Gillingham. Clearly Poch thinks he’s part of the future.
The future is looking bright. COYS
A
Also, what Mourinho did to Mata at Chelsea was truly unforgivable.
lethargytartare
Randy, you left out the BIG STORY form the weekend.
The Chicago Fire have moved one step close to an unprecedented 2nd consecutive Wooden Spoon!
come on you men in red!