The Soccer Thread (Version 12) — Revenge of the Backup GK

Even the IOC is on board now. If this doesn't get FIFA to budge, nothing will.

 

Watching the SOTU — Chelsea better win some hardware this year.

 

This was pretty funny.

 

Here at Vicarage Road. Needed four Stellas at the Red Lion to shake off the second Hold Steady show, but ready to support my ‘Orns, no matter what. Fuck Arsenal.

 

Unofficial body count at 17.

Mexican soccer league suspends all Sunday matches after fan riot

 

Found out just now that the official Hillsborough count went up to 97 last year.

Hillsborough victim dies 32 years after UK stadium disaster

 

Some of those Twitter clips are insane. I will say, though, that if you're having to separate sections of the stadium with fences topped by barbed wire then this might not have been their first rodeo.

 

I bet all those references to Minneapolis won't be lost on Londoners.

 

Still prevalent at a lot of English grounds.

 

Football notwithstanding, this has been an unbelievable weekend. Hold Steady fans are the literal best. I met people from at least eight countries and we just jammed. Also, fuck Arsenal.

 

Before I moved to Minnesota I had a friend try and sell me on both the Hold Steady and Duluth's Own Bob Dylan. It didn't really take, but mostly because my taste in music is very random, temporary and weird. But I now get all the references.