BCLA

It is weird having Joel Klatt with Fowler without Herbie. It's almost jarring lol

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Not if you live in a good sized metro area. The problem is, because of the pay for play system, most of the teams that are close to each other can't play each other because they are all in different pathways, each with their own financial interests

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Yep, even in a much smaller metro in Shreveport/Bossier we had to go to Dallas or somewhere in Texas because CABOSA wouldn't allow their teams to play ours.

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His son's jersey.

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shite I didn't even realize he was in the squad my bad.


Whelp knew that was coming

Gregggggggg was fired for a reason.

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Lol. The moment got too big for them and they laid an egg.

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That's kind of the point of not making progress. Progress would be that the moment wouldn't have been too big for them and they would've risen to the occasion.

Being happy with goal differential against Paraguay, Aussie, and Bosnia isn't a good barometer

"A bunch of soft, tattooed, millionaires...... And Im talking about you too Wonderboy" -Alexi Lalas in 2017


Love him or hate him, Lalas was right

Absolutely embarrassing.

frick going out on our sword, our boys didn't even want to hold it

Adams for pepi :rotflmao:

The nerves have set in. Let's ride boys

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Seattle’s patriotic American fans will be out in full force tonight

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They absolutely brought it a couple of weeks ago. Expect it to be even better tonight.

Belgiums latest statement. It's definitely framed a lot better and gives some context. They basically want what we all do, for FIFA to just come out and detail what happened. But transparency isn't something FIFA even knows exists.

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"Following its previous statement, the RBFA wishes to publicly explain the events of the past few hours.

"After learning through media reports of FIFA's decision to lift the automatic suspension of player Balogun, the RBFA sent a letter to FIFA requesting a copy of the decision, an explanation of the process that had been followed, and setting out its position regarding the applicable regulations.

"As its only response, FIFA sent a letter to the RBFA stating that it considered this correspondence to constitute an appeal, that a judge had been appointed, and that the RBFA had only a few hours to complete that appeal. No information whatsoever was provided by FIFA.

"For an appeal to be admissible, FIFA's own regulations state that the reasoned decision must first have been communicated to the appellant. While the RBFA was merely seeking legitimate explanations, FIFA itself created an appeal and immediately ensured that it would be declared inadmissible.

"All of this occurred while FIFA simultaneously refused to respond to the RBFA's legitimate requests.

"Furthermore, during the match coordination meeting, FIFA deliberately removed the section concerning the automatic suspension of players from its presentation. This topic had nonetheless been part of all such meetings before each of the previous four matches. The RBFA questioned FIFA, both orally and in writing, about the reasons for this change, yet once again received no response.

"To be clear, as of this moment, the RBFA has still not received any decision or any explanation from FIFA regarding this matter. It therefore has no alternative but to challenge the player's eligibility for the upcoming match.

"Regardless of the sporting outcome of this match, the RBFA is deeply concerned by the course of events and will continue to fight in the coming hours, days and months in defence of the fundamental principles of ethics, fair competition, and the interests of football as a whole."

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