There comes a point when you have to stop blaming the manager. Michael Carrick can pick the wrong midfield. He can make a bad substitution. He can lose at Hull and deserve every rotten tomato […]
There are safe transfers, and then there are the ones that make you lean forward in your chair. Carlos Baleba is the second kind. Manchester United are paying £70 million for a 22-year-old midfielder who […]
There is something wonderful about the first weekend of a football season. The table is clean. The grass is perfect. Nobody has been mathematically eliminated from anything, and every supporter is permitted, for a few […]
Manchester United have seen this movie before. Hell, they own the damn cinema. A manager drags an imperfect squad into the Champions League. Everybody shakes hands, talks about progress and promises to build. Then summer […]
Manchester United keep standing on the dock, staring at the water, telling everyone the boat is too expensive. Meanwhile, the sharks are already circling. This squad needed surgery. Not a trim, not a polish, not […]
There are moments in football when prudence becomes another word for fear. Manchester United have spent more than a decade shopping like a drunk man at airport duty free, dazzled by labels, paying too much […]
Spain winning the World Cup felt less like a surprise and more like the bill finally arriving. For a month, they were the best team in the tournament by daylight. Not always loud, not always […]
The World Cup is over, and now comes the part American soccer hates most: honesty. Not the panel show kind. Not the soft focus federation video with children juggling in slow motion and a sponsor […]
There are losses, and then there are autopsies. This was the latter. Belgium 4, United States 1, and somehow the scoreline still feels charitable. The USMNT did not lose a World Cup knockout match so […]
Tomorrow night with the whole strange, bloated, beautiful machinery of the World Cup humming around them, the United States men walk into a game they are supposed to win. That may be the most dangerous […]
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