The Soccer Thread (Version 9)

If you aren’t feeling well before the game, make sure that the team’s physio gives you a fitness test.

 

Not usually the biggest fan of Barry Glendenning, especially after James Richardson left Football Weekly, but this was funny

The Fiver | The kind of chutzpah that would have made Richard Nixon blush

 

Sue Bird: Great at basketball and pretty good at writing.

So the President F*cking Hates My Girlfriend | By Sue Bird

 

USA!!! USA!!!

 

Rapinoe not starting

 

Maybe Trump gave an executive order.

 

Press is better defensively than Rapinoe, so maybe that's it? Also, Horan is in for Mewis - which is odd. Mewis has been playing well.

I almost get the sense the bus is already being positioned to be parked.

 

And England's starting GK is out of the starting lineup too.

 

She'll be subbed in at some time, no?

 

Well, Rapinoe doesn't appear to be doing any prematch warmups or stretching at all.

 

I didn’t think that Mewis played that well last game and that Horan needs to be out there.

Rapinoe is interesting. I say you always ride the hot hand, but she’s faded late in the last two games so maybe she’s the second half spark.

 

Rapinoe has to be injured.