Anyone who thinks Mason Mount can play soccer has not seen him with United this year.

Did United see him with Chelsea?

Spain has been the best team in the tournament, and deserves the trophy.

Except when Japan smoked them 4-0 in the group stage!

What's the deal with the controversy over the Spanish women's team?

What's the deal with the controversy over the Spanish women's team?

What is the soccer equivalent of a TOOTBLAN? Saka committed one for the ages this morning. Ugh.

And then the federation basically doubled down and said 'no we value him more than you.'

That is a dreadful game from Newcastle.

The mother of Spain’s embattled football chief, Luis Rubiales, has reportedly shut herself in a church in southern Spain and declared herself to be on a hunger strike over what she described as the “inhumane and bloodthirsty hunt” of her son.

The decision by Ángeles Béjar to lock herself into a 19th-century church is the latest twist in a saga that has gripped Spain for the past week after her 46-year-old son grabbed the Spanish forward Jenni Hermoso by the head and planted a kiss on her lips during the World Cup medal ceremony.

19th-century church

All the relevant details.

The Spanish football federation (RFEF) has asked Uefa to suspend it from international competitions because of government interference over demands to remove its beleaguered president, Luis Rubiales, from office.

The shock move was widely seen as an attempt to silence some of Rubiales’ critics, including government ministers who have asked for his removal. Such a suspension would ban Spanish teams from competitions like the Champions League and could sway public opinion in favour of letting Rubiales, who is also a Uefa vice-president, remain in his post.

Football’s governing bodies have long-standing rules barring national governments from interfering with the running of the domestic federations. However, Uefa will not comply with the RFEF’s request for a sanction, a person familiar with the issue told The Associated Press on Monday.

Rubiales has also been condemned for other actions during the celebrations after Spain beat England in Sydney, including grabbing his crotch, kissing other players and carrying another over his shoulder, but the incident with Hermoso is the subject of the legal case.

city           30.5

bayern         14.5
real madrid    10.5
arsenal         7.5
barcelona       5.5
psg             5.5

united          4
newcastle       3.5
napoli          3
inter           2.5
atleti          2.5
mlan            2
dortmund        1.5
leipzig         1
benfica         1

sevilla         0.75
lazio           0.75
porto           0.75
sociedad        0.75
berlin          0.5
feyenoord       0.3
lens            0.2

field           1

The team to avoid is Newcastle in pot 4 and to a lesser extent Milan in pot 3

England - Ukraine. One of the most brutally uninteresting soccer matches I've ever seen, and emblematic of everything I dislike about international football. I didn't even have the heart to watch the USA match after that.

o then I thought about it seriously for a minute and it (the 2nd part) might actually be true? They did go through a bit of a rough patch in central midfield for a while so there might have been a brief time he was in the team on merit.

The exceptions like Bruno really stand out because they seem so rare.

As has been often noted, this revised format really mostly benefits the top teams by giving them more games with a lower likelihood of being eliminated early.

Chelsea is matching their lowest total of the last 25 years, and have dropped out of the top 25 (behind Villa, Brentford, and West Ham too, so in the bottom half of the league). The last time they had a lower rating was back in the late 90s.

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Chelsea have won just 7 games in all competitions in 2023