How can it be thoroughly international if foreign players have to go to America to play it at the highest level?
If it was thoroughly international, there would be domestic competitive leagues in other countries, there would be national teams from other countries and there would be championships held to decide the best national team in the world held in a different country, every time the event was held.
Like they do in all the other global sports.
Ooo, can I sign up for some gratitude from Benedict Cumberbatch or Jude law? But as you say, I’m perfectly happy with them showing gratitude to each other. I don’t even need to watch. Provided they get some video.
You can go ahead and fight my ignorance here but I believe they still haven’t paid their tab.
So is “World Cup.” It’s not a cup.
It should just be renamed Move. Ball. With the periods and said in a very caveman like cadence.
Seriously though, I’m with the Limeys on this one: Football makes much more sense for “soccer.”
If we were forced to pick a new name for our sport (which is actually kickass, IMO), I’d vote for Gridiron.
ENOUGH!
Let’s stop the infighting.
We’re all first world nations here.
And look at Antartica. For godssake, look at her! Sitting there quietly, cold and alone. Never attacking any of us, but beckoning us with its warm whisper of peace.
And do we show Antarctica gratitude? For everything it’s shown us, taught us, and warned us. We arrive on its shores and take from her, but what do we show in return? Whaling and melting her ancient ice.
It’s time to tell Antarctica what—huh?
It’s not a sovern country? No natives?..
Fuck you for what you did to Shackleton and his men, you bitch!
Is it a lie?
Of course it is. It’s just not a cup in the sense of a concave vessel.
Topologically it’s the same as a cup. Just sayin’ in the nerdiest way possible.
The original FIFA one was.
Mind you, when it was first made, it wasn’t called a cup, either.
It only got called a cup to honour the Frenchman who started the competition and so it was called The Jules Rimet Trophy or Coupe du Monde.
The one now’s not a cup, that’s true. You can blame the Brazilians for that, they got to keep it for winning it three times. The clever old things. 
So it was the French who called the thing a cup in the first place. And then an Italian made a new one with no cup in it.
So all in all, I suppose Brazil, France and Italy had a hand in the nomenclature.
Sunday Night Handegg! I like it.
You’re in America now, pal. Speak spanish.
…Oh. Wait a minute…
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Pues si no hablas ingles, ¿cómo ostias hiciste un hijo?
[spoiler]inglés (no capital, tilde): English, either the people or the language
ingles (also no capital, but no tilde): groin
So if he don’t speakee groin I wanna know where did his son come from, cos you know, the usual procedure…[/spoiler]
It’s not. It’s a bubbake offense - big difference! :eek:
Maybe he could learn some sign language from Nicolas Batum?
Ellen, if the process of labor and delivery is so protracted that you not only have time to post about it on the Dope but to ponder the wisdom of delivering them in the European Union, might I respectfully suggest you speak to your Obstetrician?
You may be suffering from UteroEuro, a rare condition that compels a woman close to term to travel to The Isle of Wife to deliver her child.
