The Official European Football Thread

[Seshmeister]

A the Russians will score 10 times as many goals as us combined but we'll take the credit.

[vandeleur]

Tom hanks is Clint dempsey

[Satan]

The worry about the USA v Germany match is that the US don't turn up until halfway through again...

Maybe they were paying tribute to the American football teams that never actually start playing until after halftime, but still manage to win most of their games?

[FORD]

Ann the Man says soccer is "un-American", blames it on Ted Kennedy

Jolie Lee, USA TODAY Network
9:56 a.m. EDT June 26, 2014


Soccer is destroying the USA. So says conservative syndicated columnist Ann Coulter.

Coulter went on a rant about the sport, calling it un-American in a column Wednesday headlined, "America's Favorite National Pastime: Hating Soccer."

Readers called the column "contemptible," "uneducated" and "moronic" in comments posted on The Clarion Ledger's website. The Ledger is owned by Gannett, which also owns USA TODAY. Coulter's column is distributed by Universal Press.

"Hahaha this is the biggest lot of nonsense I have ever read," one commenter wrote.


Coulter argues the reason people are watching soccer now is because of Sen. Edward Kennedy's 1965 immigration law.

"I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer," she wrote. "One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time."

She also says soccer is not a "real sport." A real sport, she argues, requires individual achievement and "the prospect of either personal humiliation or major injury."

"Do they even have MVPs in soccer? Everyone just runs up and down the field and, every once in a while, a ball accidentally goes in," she wrote.

Tweeters also joined in on the chorus of criticism.

"Ann Coulter meets a new low. I have no words. Probably the worst column I've read. And I don't even like soccer," one person tweeted.

Alexander Hallberg @wingate32


Ann Coulter meets a new low. I have no words. Probably the worst column I 've read. And I don't even like soccer. http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/20...html#read_more …
5:29 AM - 26 Jun 2014

Some wondered if the writing was satire or "the most compelling piece of performance art you've ever seen?"

Joel Biswas @jpinkertonesq


What's the most compelling piece of performance art you've ever seen? For me, its Ann Coulter, hands down.
5:28 AM - 26 Jun 2014

Tim Hall @Kalyr


It's impossible to tell real far-right columnists from parody now - http://www.clarionledger.com/story/o...ecay/11372137/ … (via @MichaelAHann) #PoesLaw #AnnCoulter.
5:33 AM - 26 Jun 2014

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Football (soccer) isn't incompatible with brains:

[FORD]

OK, question from the ignorant American here.......

Why the 4 minutes of overtime in a 1-0 game?

[vandeleur]

Its to make up for injuries and stoppages, stops people trying to waste time .

[vandeleur]

Well done usa for qualifying from a tough group

[BITEYOASS]

Well done usa for qualifying from a tough group

Unfortunately, team USA has to play fuckin' Belgium now. Which basically means.....

[vandeleur]

Nah , Belgium were no great shakes today . Give it a go you might have a sneaky chance . You certainly work
Harder than them .

[BITEYOASS]

Looks like the next sequel to "Piranha" is coming out on DVD:

[vandeleur]

This could be a cracking game

[vandeleur]

Jero you stole that off Mexico

[vandeleur]

Insert robben bastards joke

[Fairwrning]

Ive got this soccer thing down...If anyone comes near you while you have the ball,run close to them and flop like you got hit by a car..