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Home sick today, don't mind if I do. I have never seen illegal handling called on a goalie, but thought it was warranted against Barca earlier.

Can you dvr it???

So you're now a fan of the current EPL champs, the reigning Bundesliga champs, and the reigning champions league champs. If you weren't a DCU fan I would have a lot more to say about that....=P

Granted it was in a different league, but when you've already been punished once for something and you repeat that action, I think a bigger penalty is warranted.

I just don't even understand the thought process for biting someone. Slapping or punching or even headbutting, sure. But biting? Are you 3?

Absolutely zero killer instinct on offense. It's as if they don't even want to score goals. Terrible all the way around. Pajoy should not start another game and I can't believe he continues to see the field. Pontius has been a complete non-factor thus far, and we really miss Andy on the wing. Looks like it's going to be 2010 all over again.

Man what I would do for the prospect of Najar's speed and skill on the US wing right about now....

I say offsides you say offside? I say hand ball you say handling?

Just watched the Dortmund Malaga game. LOL @ 4 players from Dortmund being offsides on the 3rd goal. Tit for tat I guess. And Malaga had 3 defenders literally just standing there while Dortmund scored the 2nd goal.

Funny because that's what some of the computers in some of their photos look like Except of course for the imac in Jr's office.

The treadmill idiot reminds me of a time I was at the gym, minding my own business running on the treadmill when all the sudden the back of the treadmill jumps up and the band stops moving. I look back an see a ****ing exercise ball jammed up underneath the thing. I guess the doofus lady behind me just left the thing sitting there, and the energy from the treadmill sucked it in. I feel bad for him, but I definitely laughed.

The way I see it, the ultimate decision will come down to do we take proactive military action or do we sit and wait. The backstory and justifications may be different, but it's a really similar conflict.

I suspect they want to go back to the post Korean War era when they were at their economic and political prime and countries like China and the Soviet Union were competing to ally with them while South Korea fell behind in every aspect. Problem is, they no longer have the Soviet Union on their side, and I don't think they really have China on their side when it comes to any kind of conflict with the rest of the world, and at this point they are so far behind any global superpower in terms of development it is ridiculous.

I think part of the question is whether he is rooted deeply enough in reality that he understands what they and the rest of the world are capable of.

I feel like I've gone back in time 10 years.

The fact is while we may know where their nuclear facilities are, we have no idea what kind of arsenal they have hidden elsewhere within the country. Any proactive attack is really going in partially blind at this point. Edit: And I think there would be objections from their neighboring countries who could very easily be directly impacted by any sort of action. China doesn't want to deal with a million NK refugees, and SK nore China don't want to risk any response to our attacks (it doesn't take a North Korean nuke to do serious damage to South Korea).

Um, fantastic for main land USA. Now what about China, Japan, SK, Russia, etc, etc, etc.

I don't remember where, but online the other day I read that as Chinese citizens started making the switch from VCRs to DVD players, a lot of the tossed VCRs ended up in NK, allowing an increasing number of North Koreans to watch outside media. But let's be realistic here, when your country looks like this at night It's not like everyone is flocking around the TV to watch last week's episode of Dancing With the Stars that your long lost South Korean cousin sent to you.

I don't disagree. I've tried to strike it like that on PKs before just ****ing around and am lucky to get the shot on goal, I can only imagine being able to do it in a game and send it perfectly to someone else.

Just watched PSG v Barcelona. That first Barca goal holy ****.

Not sure where else to put this: http://media-cache-ec2.pinterest.com/550x/de/84/18/de841808e8711a47024bd6196a4cf6f3.jpg Compilation of then and now photos, where someone recreates a childhood photo. These are the best ones I've seen and some are actually really cool.

Freed of a Secret’s Burden, a Soccer Player Looks Ahead

Not sure where else to post this...

NASL's Minnesota Stars have rebranded and I love the new look: http://www.zeusjones.com/blog/2013/giving-our-home-states-soccer-team-a-new-identity/

I didn't see the game and can't really tell from the photo - was the card for studs up?