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Soccer Open Thread

by John Cole|  May 26, 20184:46 pm| 40 Comments

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Apparently there is a football game of some importance taking place right now.

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  1. 1.

    Yarrow

    May 26, 2018 at 4:50 pm

    That goal by Gareth Bale was something else.

  2. 2.

    otmar

    May 26, 2018 at 4:51 pm

    I don’t want to be in the shoes of Liverpool’s goalkeeper.

    I wouldn’t mind the salary, though.

  3. 3.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et Al.)

    May 26, 2018 at 4:53 pm

    What inning is it?

  4. 4.

    Yarrow

    May 26, 2018 at 4:55 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et Al.): All of them, Katie.

  5. 5.

    SiubhanDuinne

    May 26, 2018 at 4:58 pm

    Whatever happened to Randinho?

  6. 6.

    Bonnie

    May 26, 2018 at 4:58 pm

    Soccer isn’t football.

  7. 7.

    Mary G

    May 26, 2018 at 5:01 pm

    Since it’s an open thread:

    This is unacceptable. It's time to take to the streets. #MarchforStolenChildren #WhereAreTheChildren pic.twitter.com/4fWraI9kpp— The Nastiest Woman (@nastiestwoman) May 26, 2018

    Save the date – March for the Children June 14th

  8. 8.

    Yarrow

    May 26, 2018 at 5:01 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Moved to Brazil.

  9. 9.

    Doug R

    May 26, 2018 at 5:05 pm

    Early Man is out on video.
    On topic, believe it or not.

  10. 10.

    rikyrah

    May 26, 2018 at 5:07 pm

    Thread from Propane Jane

    https://twitter.com/docrocktex26/status/1000340403831402496?s=20

  11. 11.

    Joe

    May 26, 2018 at 5:08 pm

    Two huge bonehead mistakes by Karius cost Liverpool that game. It’s going to be tough for him to get past those, feel sorry for the guy. That could haunt him forever.

  12. 12.

    rikyrah

    May 26, 2018 at 5:16 pm

    Obama doesn’t owe this country shyt??

    https://twitter.com/AngryBlackLady/status/1000113813637685248?s=20

  13. 13.

    Amir Khalid

    May 26, 2018 at 5:18 pm

    @Bonnie:
    You have that exactly wrong: it is the gridiron sport that isn’t football.

  14. 14.

    luc

    May 26, 2018 at 5:20 pm

    The annoying this is that the one obvious a##hole on the field (Ramos), who among multiple other misdeeds caused the injury to Salah, did get away with all them.

    What a goal by Bale, though.

  15. 15.

    Another Scott

    May 26, 2018 at 5:22 pm

    ObOpenThread: LOLGOP at Eclectablog – If you’re using Trump’s language, you’re helping him:

    Either corporations waste trillions of dollars repeating their advertisements at you or you’re helping Donald Trump every time you retweet him or use his words.

    This is true even if you’re owning him with your comment attached to the retweet or accusing him of being “the swamp” or telling America to “Make America Bright Again.”

    Damn. I just helped him.

    See. This is isn’t easy, but this week we all saw through Trump’s very conscious attempt to distract and confuse the public about swelling investigations around his administration that have gotten in more than 100 indictments or guilty pleas against 19 people and three companies by pretending that the real scandal was that his campaign was being investigated at all. He even made up a name for this fictional scandal and implored the press to use it. In this case, most everyone, even the media, saw through the ruse.

    But sooner or later we all have to face that we in many cases act as Donald Trump’s viral marketing army. Our outrage feeds him and we’re earnestly debunking and fact checking him, we’re often helping him.

    And it’s time to start trying something new.

    […]

    What should we do otherwise?

    Stop retweeting and repeating him as much as you can. When you feel the urge to do that, focus instead on boosting the message of someone you want to win this November. Maybe set up a sort of swear jar, where you “punish” yourself every time you accidentally repeat him by making a donation you can afford to a candidate you back.

    But don’t some of his messages need to be pushed back on?

    A strong media would be protecting the truth for us, but the right has long been “playing the refs” to prevent this. If you feel you want to join the pushback, consider doing a quote retweet of people who do a nice job of getting framing out first as they rebut Trump instead of Trump. On Twitter, @ACLU, @ThePlumLineGS, @sarahkendzior ,@JamilSmith and @RVAWonk constantly do this well.

    I hate to hector you. You don’t have to agree or comply, but I bet you’d still feel that we’re not yet doing enough to limit Trump’s toxicity and there’s lots more we should be trying.

    Yup. Click over and read the whole thing.

    DougJ! hasn’t put up his BJNWTH Thermometer recently. Maybe his little monster is keeping him busy. ;-) I just kicked in some more.

    164 days to go…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  16. 16.

    Amir Khalid

    May 26, 2018 at 5:23 pm

    @Yarrow:
    Randinho has always lived in Brazil. It’s just that real life got in the way of his football posting. David Anderson did some football posting in his Mayhew period, but that was only ever a sideline.

  17. 17.

    SRW1

    May 26, 2018 at 5:30 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    We have the World Cup coming up and BJ is totally unprepared for it!

  18. 18.

    Baud

    May 26, 2018 at 5:35 pm

    @rikyrah:

    Agree.

    @Another Scott:

    Agree.

  19. 19.

    Yarrow

    May 26, 2018 at 5:36 pm

    @Amir Khalid: No, he moved to Brazil in 2014.

    Mércia and I have moved to the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil for at least most of each year. The undertaking was vast and exhausting, to put it mildly: selling my apartment in Jackson Heights, NY, obtaining my permanent resident’s visa for Brazil, arranging all the documents for moving our household goods to Brazil via a 40 foot container, then packing all the goods and moving them.

    Link to that post.

    His last post here was in December 2016. I hope he’s okay.

  20. 20.

    Amir Khalid

    May 26, 2018 at 5:43 pm

    @Yarrow:
    I stand corrected. My bad.

    @SRW1:
    Aaaaaaaaaaaaah!!

  21. 21.

    Ruckus

    May 26, 2018 at 5:46 pm

    @rikyrah:
    Precisely. 100%.
    I wish I was 1/10 the person President Obama is.

  22. 22.

    Yarrow

    May 26, 2018 at 5:47 pm

    @Amir Khalid: No big deal. I remember he said that after he moved to Brazil his internet connection was spotty. He was posting regularly about football when there were tournaments or big matches until December 2016 when he just stopped.

    I hope he’s doing okay. I wonder if the “Contact a Front Pager” form works for him. If whatever email it goes to still works, I mean. Perhaps one of the other FPers could check on him and let us know if he’s going to do World Cup posts.

  23. 23.

    James Powell

    May 26, 2018 at 5:49 pm

    @Yarrow:

    His last post here was in December 2016. I hope he’s okay.

    He got out just in time.

  24. 24.

    Amir Khalid

    May 26, 2018 at 5:53 pm

    @Joe:
    Klopp has for some reason not bothered to sign a keeper fit to play for Liverpool even when one was available, concentrating instead on midfielders and forwards. As a Liverpool supporter I feel we need that keeper and another leader in defence like Virgil van Dijk.

  25. 25.

    Steve on St. Simons Island

    May 26, 2018 at 5:54 pm

    @Bonnie: the word “soccer” is derived from the term “association football”, but the Brits like to pretend that they weren’t the creators of the S-word

  26. 26.

    Alain the site fixer

    May 26, 2018 at 5:54 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Amir, want to be our World Cup host this year?

  27. 27.

    ArchTeryx

    May 26, 2018 at 5:55 pm

    Since it’s an open thread, and I wasn’t quick enough on the draw on the last one, here’s where I put on my ornithologist’s hat. (My favorite one to wear, though one that never had a chance of giving me a living):

    The term for your baby birds is altricial. Those are babies born naked, blind, and utterly helpless except to eat, peep and poop. (Pun intended). They grow up fast because they HAVE to – any predator can get to them with zero effort, so the parents have to hide them well and they have to grow and fledge fast. Even so, the casualty rate among altricials is shockingly high, part of why they have big broods in the first place. Almost all passerines (perching birds, what we think of as small songbirds) have altricial hatchlings.

    This is in contrast to semialtricial (bird of prey hatchlings, born downy and eyes open, but unable to move much or feed themselves) and precocial (born downy, eyes open, able to move and feed themselves – ducklings and goslings are the examples everyone knows). Precocials tend to have higher survival rates but many still die – take a good look at all the x-eating-duckling videos on YouTube if you want a sample.

    That nest full of fresh squab is damn lucky to have John Cole as a guardian. The predators don’t stand a chance. :-) Just be very, VERY careful you don’t accidentally lead any right to the nest – it’s happened many times with even experienced naturalists.

  28. 28.

    Ruckus

    May 26, 2018 at 5:56 pm

    @Bonnie:
    Let’s see.
    It is in the rest of the world. And that’s 95% of the worlds population.
    I was a freshman in HS in CA in the early 60s and we played football with a round ball and two nets. Didn’t even have one of those out of round things on the property.
    And football was played centuries before americans squashed a ball and attempted to use aggressive force rather than finesse to carry a ball down field.
    So football it is.

  29. 29.

    Steve on St. Simons Island

    May 26, 2018 at 5:57 pm

    @James Powell: shit, say what you will about our fucked up MAGA paradise, but Brazil is completely sketch.

  30. 30.

    Ruckus

    May 26, 2018 at 6:09 pm

    @Steve on St. Simons Island:
    I wonder if it’s OK if you live out in the hinterlands and can live off the land? Weather isn’t too bad if you don’t live all the way south, plenty of water falls out of the sky in most parts….. OTHO there do seem to be a few rather dangerous predators hanging around who might just take kindly to a fresh meal of human in a lot of that hinterland.

  31. 31.

    Peking Man

    May 26, 2018 at 6:16 pm

    @Ruckus: Not to mention the possibility of yellow fever
    https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/alert/yellow-fever-brazil

  32. 32.

    Morfydd

    May 26, 2018 at 6:18 pm

    Sorry, the football screen was hijacked for cute family pictures and then dance floor videos. I got what i paid for, i guess.

  33. 33.

    A

    May 26, 2018 at 6:37 pm

    So pleased that Bale was the one to stick the knife in the bindippers. Scousers deserve that. Hope it’s the last time they see Salad in Red short too.

  34. 34.

    A

    May 26, 2018 at 6:42 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Yep Lovren is a shitshow. Didn’t think at the time Van Dijk was a good buy at 75 million, but I gotta say, it was.

    Karius had a mare, but he also made some great stops—could’ve been 5-1. Imagine if it was Mignolet!

  35. 35.

    Mike Furlan

    May 26, 2018 at 8:06 pm

    @luc: Ramos ruined the game for me. I just wanted to see Salah play. I didn’t care who won. I dislike Real Madrid and I dislike the Liverpool owner, John Henry. All I wanted is to see everybody do their best with no injuries. Not in Zidane’s game plan. Probably told Ramos to head butt him.

  36. 36.

    cmorenc

    May 26, 2018 at 9:08 pm

    @Bonnie:

    Soccer isn’t football.

    An unqualified reference to “football” in every part of the world, with the exception of in the United States (maybe Canada, too) – is used and universally understood to refer to soccer, not American “football” – which would be better descriptively called “arm-ball”.

  37. 37.

    SiubhanDuinne

    May 26, 2018 at 10:06 pm

    @cmorenc:

    American “football” – which would be better descriptively called “arm-ball”.

    A few commenters here call it “hand-egg.” That always makes me giggle, so that’s what I now call it too.

  38. 38.

    Amir Khalid

    May 26, 2018 at 11:23 pm

    @Alain the site fixer:
    Nope. Sorry.

  39. 39.

    Amir Khalid

    May 27, 2018 at 12:42 am

    @A:

    the bindippers. Scousers deserve that.

    Are these vile regional stereotypes the stuff of your daily discourse?

  40. 40.

    Sctrojan90

    May 27, 2018 at 12:50 pm

    Recorded and watched last night because I was…refereeing soccer yesterday.

    Good game. RM was just a better team with superior depth. That has been Liverpool’s achilles all season.

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