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The orange shirts are just brilliant.

I'm still surprised we haven't gone after an Asian player just for marketing/exposure reasons. Seems like it would be right up Mike's alley.

The slide at 1:45 is gold.

Could it be about a SBR stand or something similar?

No, SD shares. Sounds like it's everyone. Would Sports Direct really have 2,000 employees without counting store workers?

At what point do the Bramble antics occur? Couldn't be bothered to keep watching after the Bardsley goal.

There is no way we were ever going offer £10 plus Best for Long. That has to be complete nonsense.

Not saying he should be, but the point is people do believe him when he says something negative while anything positive is dismissed as bullshit.

Your usual high standard of posts is dropping. Nope - what he says is true. It's quite tiresome.

Depends what you mean by parity. Only one team has won two championships in the last decade. The playoffs, particularly in baseball, create parity. The regular season is a different story. Fair point. I erase all recollection of playoffs that don't result in Yankee victory. But I think a small market team with relatively few idiots has a better chance than a massive team filled from top to bottom with idiots. Agreed - need to look no further than the Rays and Mets for examples of each of those.

Depends what you mean by parity. Only one team has won two championships in the last decade. The playoffs, particularly in baseball, create parity. The regular season is a different story.

Definitely.

That's a good article.

No, much better the way it is. A big no to Celtic and Rangers being included as well.

Vancouver Whitecaps just announced Mustapha Jarju as their second designated player. Anyone know anything about him?

Early Saturday kickoff means it will most likely be on ESPN2 here.

I'm color blind and could tell those socks were navy. What are you guys looking at? After seeing the whole thing I'm fairly confident in saying that's my favorite away kit ever.

Of swapping them? To get a young player that may be capable of making the step up for a player that has proven he cannot perform consistently at this level.

Two players heading to Blackpool as well?

I seeeeeeeeeee you.

I'd actually be quite happy with Long here, but £10m is crazy. For that amount, just buy Zoggy and be done with it.

They still have a yearly plan: $159.99 for the year - average of a little over $13 per month. It is going up to $169.99 in August, though, so act quickly. That's the way I've done it and it makes sense since you'll likely be using it every month anyway. Also, several people have said they'll be enhancing the site with new features, iPad functionality, etc. Apparently they're taking it a bit more seriously and the quality should improve. I hope so. Hmmm, I already pay for Fox Soccer+, get FSC free with my FIOS package... is there really that much benefit to getting the foxsoccer.tv s*** too? It's great to be able to watch every match in a weekend, I was able to watch every Newcastle game because of it. The service is frustrating though, video can be sloppy and even unwatchable, but I still paid for it since I couldn't get that offer anywhere else. I don't really care about the new upgrades, PIP and live match stats will be nice, but I don't have an iPad or anything like that. The day they make a 360/PS3 app will be great. I know I'll buy it again next season since I probably won't have FSC, which even if you have, it's definitely still worth it. Hmm, well I'm not sure. Half of the games were on FSC or FS+ anyway, and the remaining ones could be found... elsewhere... and if the quality isn't all that good, I'm not sure it has any benefits over the... other... onlne coverage. Just to be clear on this - the picture quality is HD. I plug my laptop into an HD tv and full screen it's clear. It's miles better than most illegal streams. I actually got to the point last year where I hoped our games weren't on FSC because I don't get FSC in HD thanks to Comcast. Their problems lie in the format they stream in, which has a tendency to rewind so to speak if it runs into an error, as opposed to ESPN3 which essentially ignores errors and would prefer you to miss 10-15 seconds and keep you live (this is rare for them anyway). They also got overloaded at certain times so hopefully they have added to/improved the servers.

7th can't be Europa League?

Such a dumb rumor too. As if we'd pay the fee Spurs would want and take on his wages. At least make up things that are somewhat believable.

I'll preface this by saying I'm not defending Mike and Co., but just because that's how clubs have been run doesn't mean it's the right way. If football clubs were actual businesses the vast majority of them would have gone under years ago. I can understand including the wages for the coming season, but beyond that does seem very extreme to me.