OT: USWNT vs. England Pregame Thread
USWNT plays England today at 3pm today on Fox for a spot in the finals of the World Cup!
Should be an exciting match, and I hope they can continue winning and representing the values and beliefs that have made America such a great country!
Also, for those that missed it, Sue Bird (girlfriend of Megan Rapinoe) wrote a great piece on the Athletic earlier today about today's match and her relationship with Megan.
Link: https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/sue-bird-megan-rapinoe-uswnt
Go USA!!!
Hope we win so i can rub it into my British roommate.
I don't even know what i was saying. I'm leaving this up to shame myself.
Speaking of the USA 2-1 win and the LSA Betsy Ross-Colin Kaepernick thread lock:
Betsy Ross says, "Darn!"
Hmm the US team. Megan Rapinoe. Nike jerseys. Soccer. Seems kinda political to me.
Can't we just stick to talking about sports here? Shesh.
The heckler's veto is strong on this board.
After scrolling through the last thread, I came here to ask whether Nike sponsored the US uniforms. Got my answer. You may want to duck.
Ha, we showed them some "values and beliefs" when we smoked dat ass in the Revolutionary War!
#MericaFuckYeah
Also Alex Morgan's birthday today so let's hope she has a great birthday.
That dyke sure can play soccer - Paraphrased from Patches O'Houlihan
If you can dodge a wrench...
It seems that Rapinoe would take that as a compliment and give you a smiley High 5!
I think Crystal Dunn will need to play like she did vs. France. Much like France England's right side is very strong.
Nikita Parris is quick and dangerous on the attack and it will be up to Dunn to check her.
Lucy Bronze is considered to be the best right back in the world and is heavily involved in the final third. Rapinoe is going to have to track back and cover those overlapping runs. Bronze will also make in-cutting runs towards the middle to aid the attack while other midfielders drop back to cover for her.
EDIT: Starting roster just dropped and Ellis is going to start Press this game. I like this decision since Press is going to be fresher and is better defensively to cover the attack on the right side.
All this talk of running has me winded. I'm gonna just take a seat over here on the bench, K thx...
I'm sweating at my desk. Unsure if it's from reading this comment or walking through our company's warehouse.
You really had to include that link? Fucking loser.
Checked your recent posts. You’re clearly one of those people who can’t have a conversation without bringing up politics. It all makes sense now.
They can't park the bus against England like they did against France. There has to be better possession and midfield play.
It sure looked like they parked the bus for vast stretches of the second half to me! Constantly just booting it downfield rather than trying to control it and pass it. I didn't like those tactics either, but they ultimately worked....but mostly thanks to the VAR offsides overturn and the big penalty save.
When is the Sydney Australia poster going to show up to post how he doesn't care about soccer?
He should be awake shortly.
I am a little confused on the consistency on this site. The Nike thread gets locked for being too political but this thread praising an article titled "So the President Hates my F*cking Girlfriend" is apparently not political? Is it because the title of the thread is benign and doesn't highlight the article? This thread is on the opposite side of the political spectrum than the Nike thread and one is up and the other locked. Makes a person wonder whats up.
I'm glad we have you to bring this gross injustice to the sunlight.
I don't know why you have to be combative. Were my questions offensive in some way to you? I don't see the problem in trying to figure out if there is a bias in the way this site is moderated. I am fully aware that the people who own and are employed by this site swing left and that's ok. I just don't like hypocrisy.
Combative? It was snark. Relax.
my bad on misdiagnosing exactly how you were trying to mock me. So why so snarky? Why belittle me and/or my post?
Because this is a game thread for the USWNT.
So you would have no problem with me starting a game thread for the next world cup game and including a link in it to a political article of my choosing? You would get snarky with anyone who pointed that out as well because I put game thread in the title of the post?
I have no idea what you're trying to say at this point. You want to get political in a game thread, have at it.
It would be good of you (Jota09) to take sensitivity training. Learn to toughen your hide a bit.
Here I thought sensitivity training was to help people learn to be more respectful of others feelings, not to learn to accept when people are assholes.
It has always been this way. All of the mods lean very far left. My 100,000+ point account was banned because I changed my username to Trump.
Do you see the irony when complaining about how others need to bring politics into everything?
It was one small name change. This asshole comes on this blog just to talk politics in all of his posts.
"It was one small name change"
Riiight, so no?
Well that is just not true if you have gone through all of my posts. I won't deny that I have written previous posts that are political in nature, but you will find that a large majority of them are just about sports.
But somehow that is justification for you call me out using profanity laden posts? I have a feeling that name calling has more to do with your points disappearing than simply changing your username to Trump.
This board is shit today. Go rub one out everyone.
Double.
I can't do more than one anymore. At least in the same day. I'm 50. I'm a man.
Shit is typical here. Just like when Seth forced his political posts on us a couple years ago. All politics left and right should not be on this site. When you consistently allow one and not the other it becomes a clown show.
That is exactly my complaint. I don't care if we are allowed to post political stuff or not, that is up to site management. I do care when they seem to be blatantly allowing posts of one political viewpoint that they favor but locking/deleting posts from the other side.
It’s because the other viewpoint blows. Sorry.
I love lesbians. Always have. Always will.
That's a bold statement, Cotton, and I wholeheartedly agree!
lol, your comment isn't as controversial as your underwear comment in the last US soccer thread.
Underwear is overrated - live free.
Tool
Spot of tea, Alex?
US strikes first (Rapinoe's replacement - she's not in the lineup for some mysterious, unknown reason) from Press, then England responds.
US just scored, Alex Morgan, the birthday girl, makes it 2-1 US!! 32nd minute.