Recent content by MikeSmalling

Poor Joe Allen looks like a make-a-wish kid trying to take the ball off him.

Are all of the cup games included in a season ticket? If so, that is a fantastic deal compared to American sports. NFL ticket prices are far, far more expensive on average and don't even include the cost of tickets to the playoff game(s), should the team qualify. A number of professional...

Just another injustice in what is now a tragically long history filled with them. I'm not even really upset at Dave not winning, more so at FIFA just being the absolute worst.

Apparently Dave didn't register a single vote for best goalkeeper of the best year of the best FIFA awards 2017. http://www.espnfc.com/club/manchester-united/360/blog/post/3241708/wheres-david-de-gea-man-united-no-1-not-on-list-of-fifas-best-goalkeepers (I can't embed a tweet as a noob. Thanks...

One of my all time favorite threads was from the Champions League draw in 2013. I didn't watch it live but following it on here was so, so much better. I still come back to read it from time to time for a good laugh. Best bits start around page 5 (poor Billy McNeill)...

Though his dribbling and close control are certainly wonderful, he's been so effective at changing pace to beat defenders this season. He waits for defenders to approach him or commit to a challenge and then with either a body feint or burst of pace he's off in a different direction, often using...

The van Bronckhorst goal against Uruguay in 2010 was one of the cleanest strikes I've ever seen.

Not sure what "blood bruising" is, but a bruise still involves bleeding.

His best ball into the box today came off his weak foot. As others have mentioned, this is clearly nothing new. But how many balls does he need to cannon off the first defender or fire over the heads of all of our attackers into the sun before he tries something even remotely different? The end...

Marcelo and Carvajal add so much dynamism when attacking for Real. Not that they aren't better in other areas on the field, as well, but when I look at Real in comparison with United that stands out as our biggest weakness, as Blind/Darmian/Valencia more or less just take up space on the wing in...

Your location says you live in New York City. You must have a terribly short memory if you don't remember this:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_housing_bubble. The rapid rise in transfer fees is nearly unprecedented and largely driven by television deals. That growth is simply not...

I don't read much into preason games, especially ones against Barcelona, but the balls into the box from our LB/RB (all of them) have been dogsh*t.

It's almost like this is a preseason game played on a completely different continent in a stadium that is half full.

Suarez... Come on. He truly is the worst.

I understand those that are colorblind, but the teams really aren't hard to discern at all. The colors aren't that similar.