Just finished the 2nd book. Love it so far. Watched the first episode of the Prime TV series which was on point except....James Holden - that Holden is not the one I envisioned when reading the books.
Agree. I don't even recognize any of the names other than Jimmer.
You would think the conversation would be something like...Are you good at basketball? Yes. Are you on the current 5v5 Olympic basketball team? No. Do you want to win an Olympic medal? Yes. Ok, see you at tryouts...
Portugal was brutal in the 2nd half and extra time today. Give Slovenia credit but there was just no creativity from the midfield or forwards. Ronaldo should have won it with the PK but Bruno, Silva, Leao were all pretty bad today. Their best attacking player was Cancelo at RB.
The response to the red card was to bring on another CB and pray Panama doesn't score. What we needed was a better central midfield presence to settle the ball and create possession.
The short sided view would fault Weah. But more longitudinally, this is on Berhalter.
I agree, especially after allowing the early 2nd half goal. They opened up a bit a created so really nice chances that could have tied it. It wasn't as one sided as I expected.
Southgate is trash. England has some of the best attacking talent in the world and he manages 1 goal per game out of them. He's basically England's Berhalter.
Embarrassing, I don't know how the US continues with Berhalter. But we will be here, 2 years from now, talking about the same underperformance heading into the WC. Meanwhile, Berhalter will spew nonsense excuses.
I can't see how Poch leaving makes sense for Chelsea on any level...
1) He took a shitshow and made it a coherent top 6 team by the end of the season. No small feat for a team in a repetitive mode of self sabotage.
2) Even Bayern can't find manager and Liverpool found...Arne Slot.
3)...
I'll be there tomorrow for the opening round. Hope to see all the big names tee it up on the back 9 in the morning and then head to front nine for the big afternoon tee times.