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Wed. 4/27 (all times EST)
Montreal Impact @ NYCFC, 0-0, HT
Portland Timbers @ NE Revolution, 0-0 25'
Sporting KC @ Vancouver Whitecaps, 10:30pm

Fri., 4/29
FC Dallas @ NY Red Bulls, 7pm

Sat., 4/30
Columbus Crew SC @ Seattle Sounders,4pm
San Jose Earthquakes @ Philly Union, 4pm
Vancouver Whitecaps @ NYCFC, 4pm
Colorado Rapids @ MTL Impact, 4pm
DC United @ Chicago Fire, 5pm
Orlando City @ NE Revolution, 7:30pm
Houston Dynamo @ Real Salt Lake, 9:30pm

Sun., 5/1
Toronto FC @ Portland Timbers, 3:30pm
LA Galaxy @ Sporting KC, 8pm

NASL Schedule:
>http://www.nasl.com/schedule

USL Schedule:
>http://www.uslsoccer.com/usl-schedules
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UNION
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https://twitter.com/BrianOConnell21/status/725468863425593344

explain this to me MLELShills
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>>67153397
Explain this first
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3rd for Union
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Fans in New England?
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>>67153440
Good enough my man
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>>67153397
>Wednesday games
JUST
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>>67153446
>hey lets expand to 30 teams, yeah thats a good idea!
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>>67153427
>its an nasl shill gets btfo episode
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>literally who scores, and villa doesn't even get an assist
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>>67153543
>>mfw NASL gets #rekt by USL in Open Cup again this year
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>>67153446
>>67153530
>weekday game
>NFL stadium
>far from downtown

assuming the expansion teams don't go about it in a retarded manner with shit owners they'll be fine
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>Midweek MLS
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Which MLS player is the most attractive and why is it Lletget?
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>New York Shitty

The OP pick is perfect
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LGTSS
>JEW YORK SHITTY
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Barmby coming from Old England to beat New England.
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>>NYCFC
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>new york
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>>67153702
And don't forget that the Red Sox (an actual good team) are back in Boston.
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>take a nap
>miss fantasy DGW deadline
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Is the NE game over? I'm drunk and need something to watch
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>jewber butthurt that ny has no trophies
>give some billionaires a bonus team to make it happen
>both teams compete for worst in the "conference"
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Why do teams park the bus? It never works, like prevent defense in handegg. It never works.
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>>67155213
>what is confirmation bias
You're only paying attention to the times it fails.
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>>67155261
I've seen it fail more than it succeed.
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>left two points on the table

Fuck this shit
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>>67155286
Literally what confirmation bias is.
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>>67155311
Well it never has worked for the Timbers
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I hope Vieira crucifies them.
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Anyone ever try to get refunds for season tickets halfway through a season? I'm done with NYCFC
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>>67155463
>he fell for the NYCFC MEME

LMAO
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>>67155307
>Fluke Championship
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>>67155463
You might get a chicken bucket but you're not getting any money back
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>>67155463
>stop supporting team because they're down badly

Fuck off you plastic
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>>67153446
How does the MLS have better attendance than the NBA and the NHL if that is the kind of attendance they get. I guess it's well before the game starts.
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>>67155463
>New York "fans"
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>>67155782
Where's Portugal bro?
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>>67155849
Seattle, Portland, and the two expansion teams is what pushed the average attendance over NHL/NBA
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>>67155463
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>>67155849
Because NBA arenas hold 18-20K max.
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>>67155782
>>Kann
yes fucks yes
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Is there a fucking reason half yankees stadium was chanting chicken bucket?
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>>67155782
is this what happens when they've got the LAG coming later in the week?
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>>67155969
So they can choke themselves to death, just like their team.
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>>67155782
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>>67155463
>being this plastic
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Is there a stream for the game?
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>>67156451
I, too, would like to know this
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>>67156379
>LE EBIN PLASTIC MAY MAY I HAVE TO REPEAT IT AS PART OF /SP/ CULTURE
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>Subs: Tornaghi, Mezquida, Jacobson, Manneh, Pérez, Rivero, Kah
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>>67156530
It wouldn't be repeated so often if it wasn't so true

>inb4 u get mad again
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>>67156530
Plastic and asshurt

Don't you have away fans to jump or something?
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>>67156451
I third this request
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>>67156530
Even people from reddit say NYC is "Plastic"
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>>67156451
live.mlssoccer.com
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>>67156217
he's gotta get rid of that stache though
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>>67156594
>mad

no it's just retarded you unoriginal idiots just repeat the same memes over and over because you must ft in BADLY with /sp/ 4chan board culture or else. It's pathetic bro real talk.
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>>67155540
>>67156379

Plastic applies to foreign "fans" of successful teams like Real Madrid, Barcelona, Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester United, Manchester City, etc.
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>>67156708
When you refer to anyone as plastic. It pretty much means that person is fake. As is the fool that wishes to give up on a team.
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>>67156708
Plastic refers to fans jumping on a bandwagon.
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>>67156675
>at least i was inb4

>>67156708
Plastic can also refer to fairweather fans
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>>67156887
>>67156932
>this new made up term can mean anything i say it means because words have no meaning

This is such a meme thread.
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Is Fat Frank dead or what?
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>ima sporting.
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>>67157143
Word can have more than one meaning, bro
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>>67157165
sprained his wrist cashing those checks
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WHEN WILL IT BE OUR TURN
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>>67157276
Never,now fuck off faggot.
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>>67157257
Yes, but not invented meanings that /sp/ just decided.
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>>67157330
Face it, you're plastic. Accept and move on.
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>>67157330
It means "fake" in the real world too. Nigga, have you ever watched Mean Girls?
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>>67157204
>ima wizard.
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>Wednesday night soccer on turf

Canada pls
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>>67157435
naw negro but your plastic meme ain't fetch
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Who /sporting/ here!
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>>67155919
>>67153338

make this the next thread pic
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>>67157595
>image.jpg
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>Louisville FC's supporters group leader arrested for going onto the pitch
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>>67157774
>Loolville
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>>67157774
BUT WHY
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welp, no clean sheet bonus for me today
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Woah first touch.
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>>67157645
>not knowing how to make a thread
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>>67157734
Its a viral image. I happen to saved it on my cell badass.
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GAMES ON 4/30
Miami FC @ Ottawa Fury
Tampa Bay Rowdies @ Ft Lauderdale Strikers
Indy 11 @ Rayo OKC
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>>67157917
I leave that to the tripfags considering how worked up I.E. gets about it
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>>67157734
>not using image.jpg
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GOAL
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>>67158010
can't keep getting away with it.
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>>67158071
>tripfag
>worked up
negro that's half the reason to post anything
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>>67158043
Finally, non-meme games listed.
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>>67158572
>non-meme
>sporting event in Oklahoma
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What's the odds on Lampard playing another game of professional soccer?
If they aren't high as fuck it would be a mistake
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>>67159082
Lampard easily the worst big-name signing in MLS
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wew
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>>67159282
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>>67159244
Raïs M'Bolhi
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>>67159244
Either him or Matthäus
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What happens first?

Canadian team wins an MLS Cup?

Canadian team wins a Stanley Cup?
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>>67159669
MLS Cup. I could see Montreal meme it's way into a cup like how the memes themselves into a CCL final.
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>>67159669
>3 Canadian MLS teams

I don't even follow hockey and I know there are more than 3 NHL teams. Sit the fuck down.
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>>67159351
BIG names
nobody had any clue who the fuck M'Bolhi was until he went ham on Germany in the World Cup
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>>67159669
shit, Toronto FC could win it all THIS YEAR
I'll take MLS
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So is Detroit going to get a new team, or is Detroit City FC going to move up?
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>>67160059
>jumping directly from NPSL to MLS
nah bro, new team
the Detroit Car References FC
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>>67160101
Detroit Shitboxes Soccer Club.
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>>67160101
That's a shame, DCFC has a really cool crest and color combo
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>>67160150
Even if the ownership group bought DCFC, absolutely none of the players would be retained. Talent gap is way too large.
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>>67159961
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>>67160185
on a considerably worse Algeria team in 2010
he wasn't even their #1 keeper that cycle
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Wait, Nagbe started?
I thought his career was over?
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>>67160221
He literally made his debut in a friendly before the world cup
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>>67160184
Yeah I know. I don't really give a shit about the players. I just think it'd be a shame to put to waste such a cool thing. They seem to have pretty decent supporters too.

Also, MLS should consider Charlotte or Raleigh for a team. There's interest in a new downtown stadium for the Railhawks and the Independence in Charlotte have expressed it's MLS or bust.
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>>67160246
Turns out he came back before de Jong's suspension ended
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>>67160266
I don't think DCFC's hipster supporters would want to be in MLS, to be honest.

>Charlotte or Raleigh
Apparently Garber literally thinks fucking San Diego is a more viable market for MLS than either of these cities. Their best chance is probably a MLS1/MLS2 closed pro-rel format, if that ever happens.
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>>67160266
Independence still haven't figured out their stadium situation at USL level
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>>67155463
Shit son - didn't you just get here last season? Clearly you have no heart.
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>>67160408
40 or so MLS teams in two divisions, and then say 50 teams in a USL 1/2 with all the reserve teams and a handful of independents

and the NY Cosmos off crying in a corner somewhere
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>this semen slurping sport
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>>67160408
Damn, they're a better candidate than Cincinnati at least.

Carolina as a whole makes up the 8th or 7th largest state in population, Charlotte in particular is a booming city right now, soccer is a surprisingly popular sport here (there's always 2-3 top 10 high school teams from NC), college soccer is pretty big with UNC, and this year in particular should show anyone how big sports have become in the Carolinas.
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>>67160595
at least they scored goals, Man City and Fake Madrid couldn't even do that
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>>67160595
truly a testament to the parity in this league
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>>67160450
Given a little time they will, from all accounts the owners really want to invest big if they're given any interest by MLS, and there's enough young white people living in Charlotte that I think it would work well.
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>>67160541
>40 teams
>MLS 1/2
Both of these are bad memes.

Also USL will just keep splitting into more conferences if it keeps growing
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>>67157595
Based cbus flyover confirmed.
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>>67160408
>>67160541
>willingly want to join a single entity ponzi scheme
>having more then 30 teams in a league at all

Hopefully NASL gets division 1 soon to stop this monstrosity of a league
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>>67160691
they really should have gone for three conferences already this year with 29 teams, the West schedule is a hot mess
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>>67160691
28 teams is actually a really good number for scheduling purposes, imo.
>play each in-conference team twice
>play each out-of-conference team once
>40 game season
>conferences play a balanced schedule
I mean, the Championship plays a 46 game season with 24 teams in a single table, so surely 40 is manageable.

>>67160756
there are no inter-conference matchups in USL until the playoffs, is that right?
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>>67160687
>enough young white people
One of these days the league will add Baltimore FC or Birmingham FC or some shit and you'll see some REAL got-damn socca hooliganz, whiteboy.
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>>67160720
>NASL
>Division I
>best team is the Carolina Railhawks

How about no.
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>>67160798
STLFC has a pair of games each with Louisville and Cincy, but apart from that, it's all in-conference

Also, I'm pretty sure the larger lower leagues in England make up for the bigger schedule with more mid-week games since the odds of European football are nil, and Wednesday games aren't doing well with MLS right now
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>>67160885
>a team joining MLELS 1 year from now lost to the railhawks

how pathetic
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>>67160825
>Baltimore team
Yes
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>>67160825
>birmingham

M8, any team for Birmingham will be in the suburbs, and the South-side suburbs of Birmingham are exclusively wealthy and white. Just speaking from a little experience with it, Birmingham takes forever to build ANYTHING, and they're mostly broke as shit outside of those rich suburbs. It would never happen, but if it did I promise there'd be a ton more white than black fans.
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>>67160798
This was tried in every other US pro-league and didn't work.

MLB added AZ and TB in 1998 because attendance was down and they needed the money expansion would bring.

The NFL has expanded steadily for years, but there's always more money to be made. JAX and CAR were added in 1995 because why not, then the nuBrowns + Texans to bring it to 32. CASH MONEY, SON
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>>67161041
NFL can't go past 32 without fucking up everything though, don't be fooled by the London talk
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>>67160541
40 teams is too much. Cap it at 30 or 32.

Cities/teams not yet in the league (currently at 20):
Atlanta
LAFC
Minnesota
Miami
Detroit
Sacramento
San Antonio
St. Louis
Charlotte
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Tampa Bay

All good cities with lots of interest/plans already in motion and good markets.
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>>67161041
expansion happens because of no pro/rel. Have to keep potential markets excited somehow.
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>>67161130
Detroit out of absolutely nowhere, I don't buy it yet
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>>67161102
>fucking everything up
They said that when the NFL wanted to go past 28.
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>>67161130
I can't wait till the Ohio "derby" becomes a thing
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>>67161202
32's a perfect number though, divides easily into divisions and conferences and they have a well-worked 16 game schedule
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>>67161130
>>67161134
This.

Pro/rel would be great for the sport but no owner wants to have a team in a D2 league when they can vote to stay in D1 forever, and the shit clubs far outnumber the big-money cities (NY/LA/Chi)
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>>67161041
NFL expanded more to the South because it was following population migration trends, and to be honest I think it was a very smart move. They've made money, those cities (Charlotte in particular) have benefited, and with more people moving south it just makes sense.
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>>67161207
just wait until Cincy goes to Columbus for Open Cup
or vice versa even
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>>67161130
Are we all just assuming that Garber is going to go past his declared 28-team cap? 28 is literally perfect for scheduling purposes.

Let's say that beyond the confirmed expansion teams (Atlanta, Minnesota, Miami, LA2) there are exactly 4 open expansion spots left before MLS closes up for good. Who gets in?

I think St. Louis, Sacramento, and San Antonio have pretty good cases for admission to MLS. St. Louis because the >Rasms left town, and the other two because their ownership groups are hell-bent on getting into MLS.

Who gets the last spot? Detroit has an ownership group together out of nowhere and might just make it in.
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>>67161240
Jacksonville's been a shit-show from the beginning, should never have happened
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>>67161240
>expanded south
>no southern cities except ATL and CAR
I know you want to count TEN, but that was just Bud Adams putting a team where his vacation home was.
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>>67161201
It's been floating around for a while, idk. Still a large market despite the city's struggles.

If you want you could replace Indianapolis or Tampa for somewhere out west like Phoenix. I've heard Boise wants to make a push but that'll never happen.
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>>67161202
>implying NFL player pool won't shrink in the future
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>>67161267
Louisville will knock out Cincy before that
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>>67161307
I'm replacing Tampa with Calgary because fuck you
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>>67161300
Jacksonville stills counts as South, friend.

If it's North Florida it's just as redneck as the other Sunbelt States.

>>67161293
I go to a school in the South and a lot of people buy their jerseys for some reason, so I guess someone is paying attention to them.
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>>67161307
>>Boise

I think Indy would be a great contender if they got that stadium plan off the ground
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>>67161201
Minnesota and Detroit is the best way to light a fire under Chicago's ass without creating a second chiraq team.

Hell I think a Wisconsin team would be great for that reason too, but that would probably never happen.
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>>67161368
What's wrong with the smurf turf?
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>>67161280
Detroit would probably get the nod just because it's the largest TV market with a significant interest but I still think Charlotte is the best long-term. MLS doesn't have a good southern footprint, and there's too many people in the Carolinas to overlook them imho, but I am biased.
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>>67161426
It would openly violate the Laws of the Game
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fuck off faggots. stay out of our generals.
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>>67161426
Boise metro area doesn't even have 2/3rds of a million people, no way they could do MLS
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>>67161426
It'd be the smallest TV market if they got a team, wouldn't it? just seems like a bit of a waste, and how are they going to remain competitive? By asking players to forgo LA, New York, Miami, Dallas, and instead go to Boise of all places?
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>>67161465
Maybe some shitty second-tier league nobody cares about.

Like the NASL.
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>>67161462
What the fuck
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>>67161462
you mad, brah?
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>>67161499
proofs you're him
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>>67161426
Honolulu would get a team before Boise does.
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>>67161508
>>implying I'm a fucking Galaxy fan
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>>67161544
xXFluttershy420Xx confirmed to be I.E. Brah
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>>67161508
Anchorage*
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>>67161559
He did admit to falseflagging as the NASL shill and I think that Sounders ponyfag
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>>67161562
>>tfw not sure if your supporters browse /spee/
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>>67161462
>fluttershy

Is that SOUNDERSBrony
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>there are teams with more MLS Cups than Supporters Shields
>these teams "won the league" without actually winning the league

disgusting desu
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>>67161798
>win just your conference
>get "trophy" for winning the "entire league"
Disgusting senpai
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>>67161850
It works for colleges, I guess.
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>>67161437
Nothing made me as mad at that day for the next 10 years
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>>67162216
>HE MAD
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>>67161462
>xXFluttershy420Xx
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>>67162216
Here's some more World Cup memories.
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>>67162719
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>>67161798
>SS
>not a meme trophy as it currently stands
it's meaningless when the schedules continue to be unbalanced.
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>>67162719
DELETE THIS
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>No Thursday games

WELP
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>Soon
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>>67153338
>Sat., 4/30
>Columbus Crew SC @ Seattle Sounders,4pm
>San Jose Earthquakes @ Philly Union, 4pm
>Vancouver Whitecaps @ NYCFC, 4pm
>Colorado Rapids @ MTL Impact, 4pm
MLS scheduling, ladies and gentlemen.
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>>67165753
The NFL does this all the time.

One of those games is good and the rest are shitty non-starters with non-contenders.
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>Wednesday games
>had to work late
>let me check if there are games today
>laptop is still in the backpack
>nah, I'll just lay a bit on the couch
>fell asleep

I'm so sorry /mls/.

On a positive note, Rubio now has as many official goals for SKC as he had for SCP first team in years.
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>>67166789
Surely there are better leagues in Portugal.
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>>67166789
Timezones are fun
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>>67166815
First of all, only the upper middle table actually try to play football, rest is shit players and corrupt "owners".
Second, Poortuguese league is corrupted beyond any wild imagination. Venfica corrupted it in a way that is soul crushing.
I can't even begin to describe it, I can try, but it will only make me cry.
Finally, second division is fun as hell to follow actually.

Anyway, the love of my life is Sporting, and I do go to the stadium every home game.
I just wanted a comfy league to follow at night.

>>67166888
Sometimes.
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>>67166907
I've always wondered how Euro leagues became so blatantly corrupted. When baseball had similar problems they created the commissioner position to clean it up.
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>>67167137
Well, in most Euro leagues, money talks louder, it's not fully corrupted for actual 1st world countries.
In here we have harder problem since, money talks louder, football is a religion and benfica has probably more than half the country in fans.
You'd think this is a real problem, well, it is, but if you add a LOT of shady backstage stuff, it becomes nearly impossible to win the league.
Let's just talk about some of the blatant stuff:

Guy who nominates the referees is a Benfica fan. He can decide what referees get relegated (high level refs only do 1st and second division games) based on their performance. This performance is measured using secret rules that no one knows about. The direct consequence of this is that over the last few years, all the good refs (International) have left football, some of them because they we're being relegated even if everyone could see they where the best.

Benfica, DIRECTLY, monetarily supports some referee school (or something like that) for future refs. The only refs that graduate are benfica fans (you can actually look at their facebook yourself). These are some of our current refs.

A funny side joke is that Poortugal now has International refs with a single (1) 1st division game on their belts. Experienced guys right? :^)
It's easy to be top of the league if the ref fills your future apposition team with yellow cards the week before they would play you, leaving some of the best players at home.

This is only the refereeing part. A lot more scary stuff is happening right now. I can go on if you want, but this in /mls/.
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>>67167495
Do it, aint nothing else to talk about
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>All those ties yesterday
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>>67167560
I'll just speak about it briefly.
>clubs suddenly have their paychecks in order one week before playing with venfica
This has happened at least twice this season. They do this "legally" buy buying shit players for a lot of money. I think they bought 3 (lmao) at time from one club this season.

>opposition uses shit tactics
Hey guys, you know what would be a very good idea? To give the ball directly to the opposition near our area. Also we should totally have 3 or 4 of our players OUTSIDE of the the area when defending corners and free kicks just for this game!
https://cdn.streamable.com/video/mp4-mobile/shgt.mp4
It literally was the only game this season where they didn't defend with at least 10 players in the area in corners.

And I can't begin to describe how protected their players are.
Up until a few weeks ago they had no penalties vs them, and they still have yet to receive a red card! A case study for Europe's football.
How many reds and yellows do you think this guy has this season?
http://rutube.ru/video/b90db5f08d7248bfe9ed597ce8a689f7/?bmstart=2

I could also go on and talk how the private driver of venficas president was caught with 10kg (20lb?) of cocaine in the stadium. Yes. Literally.

Worse part, the media does not care, at all, why? Well, most directors are blatant venfica fans. This includes TV's and newspapers, I'm not exaggerating.
No one fucking cares as long as they win.
Look, we had a candidate for President of the Republic saying "a good joke they told me is that Sporting was going to be champion". I mean, wtf is this?

Then there's the fun stuff of up until late March, Sporting conceded 17 goals, 7 of those goals where not legal (41%). We've had hand goals, and tons of bad off-side goals conceded.
But just look at this, skip to 2:15:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3pkfdf_y6uudswedfrsfdsgdf_school
Offside player clearly tries to play the ball, linesman correctly signals the offside but the ref simply disregards him.
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>>67168760
cont

>Offside player clearly tries to play the ball, linesman correctly signals the offside but the ref simply disregards him*
*on the grounds that he was not the one that touched the ball. This blatantly goes against the rules for offside.
The ref then came on NT saying it was a mistake and he was sorry kek

I was in that game, we were in 1st place and actually won it. But it was the game I realized we would not be champions.
Fucking sad.
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>>67166669
which one is which tho
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>>67168760
>>67168829
Thats fucking absurd and I have no idea how you can fix any of that.
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>>67169102
I still didn't mention they control the schedule, meaning they always have at least 100+h of rest between games while everybody else follows the mandatory 72+. This has gotten so ridiculous that they have yet to play he 1/2 final of the league cup. And the league cup final was supposed to be in March iirc. :^)
If you ask them about this and say that this is not fair to everybody else they'll say "but the clubs agreed! what's your problem?" How did they agreed? Well, the 1/2 final will be played away and they'll probably buy another player.

Just this week they bought the stadium seats in Rio Ave for 25€/seat so that their fans would fill it. The seats price was bellow 17€ in the ticket office. Can you say it's illegal?

And no one fucking cares.

I'm not saying Sporting didn't choke a little here and there, but they are making an amazing season in terms of points.

But just look and venfica, how many games did they win this season vs Sporting or Porto? 1 in 5. How many wins in a row so far? I dunno? 15 16? Do you think this is normal? Without a single red card?
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>>67169204
Is it more or less corrupt than Italian football?
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>>67169256
I can't say for sure, because Italy has a lot of big teams with money and I don't know nothing about it other than the players etc.
But the difference is that the courts here don't do nothing about it, unlike in Italy.

Last time there was courts involved, the phone calls of blatant referee buying where dismissed as illegal and nothing happened.

Oh well.
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>>67169351
I went to take a shit and the only idea I could think of was all the other clubs resigning from the league en mass and starting a new one.
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>>67162719

DELET THIS
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>>67166907
I just wrote that post to troll, and here I come back and there's paragraphs on the shit.

A league is only corrupt if people care. I'm convinced every league in the U.S. is just as corrupt (including the NCAA), but nobody gives a fuck, whereas evidently in Portugal it's a big fucking deal.

Side note: Nobody in the U.S. gives a fuck about Portugal.
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>>67169735
>>67169735
new
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>>67168879
This is MLS so who knows.
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>>67169890
But why?
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>>67169890
The old one's still fine, brosephine.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFlTFNi9Jg4
this is awful
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>>67170204
>Jew Yorkers
Are you surprised?
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>>67170204
>awful
>NASL

WELP
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>>67168879
The ones that played the wednesday game. Not hard.
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>Soon
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>>67160408
DCFC's supporters dont want an MLS team, and they wouldnt want their team to become MLS simply because of the restrictions MLS would put on their fanbase.

Honestly the best case scenario would be for DCFC to jump to USL and the new detroit MLS team to grab it as its affiliate
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>>67174456
>joining a feeder league

They're coming to NASL.
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>>67174532

the populace of detroit wouldnt know why there's 2 soccer teams in the same city and would opt to go to the bigger one. If DCFC becomes the MLS detroit affiliate then that would stop the MLS team from suffocating DCFC and running them into the ground
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>>67169641
Don't you realize that most presidents on the league are actually benfica fans that even celebrate their goals? Kek

>>67169873
Side note: I know.
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>not taking the King of the Netherlands back home with you to chill at the Blank palace and resort

how are you other clubs even going to compete?

>Soon
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a GOOD CLEAN TAUNTING
http://thebiglead.com/2016/04/07/new-england-revolution-fans-enjoy-good-clean-taunting/
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>>67174863
Just saying thats the only solution I can think of, as unlikely as it is.

>>67174896
>King Alexander comes to the US
>No one cares
pretty lame
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>>67174978
didnt know they still had a King desu, maybe they can hook AUFC up with some dope choke artists.
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>>67175034
Belgium has a king, Luxembourg has I think a grand prince, and the Scandinavian countries are all monarchies (except Finland and Iceland)
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>>67174918
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/7038445/Lost-in-translation-Americas-new-hooligans-try-to-copy-British-football-culture.html
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>>67174918
>>67175114
Niggas get so offended too when you tell them their chants are stupid. I'd rather have dumb American chants than hipsters trying to rip off British culture
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montreal is a cuck province
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>2016
>living under a King
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watched NYCFC lose to columbus crew back in august
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>>67175432
>Not embracing reactionary politics
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>>67175253
>literally everything in Canada is written in two languages because Quebec cries about it.
If there's any cuck province, it's "every province that's not Quebec."
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>>67175114
>british football culture arrived with Bekham
kek.
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here we go. its lit.

>https://twitter.com/AcademyATLUTD/status/725722149533577216


>Soon
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>>67175749
Speaking of lit.
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>>67175898
ayyyyyyy
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MLS team in Carolina when?
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>>67176286
Probably when they can fit one in each Carolina for muh rivalry teams
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>>67175492
I don't understand this meme. Emulating a culture that has soccer, because we've never had any = bad?

Okay, let's make some American football traditions. Who wants to jerk off to cheerleaders while eating processed liquid cheese that came from a gun?
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>>67176286
>NASL
deal with it
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>>67175898
lmao. well done.

theres this tho.
>Choke in the first 27 seconds of the final
>"Red Hot"
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>>67176317
>Who wants to jerk off to cheerleaders while eating processed liquid cheese that came from a gun?
>yuros will never know this feel
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>>67176317
Yes it is bad because it makes no fucking sense over here.
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>>67176343
No :(
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>>67176753
Heart disease? I dunno mate, they might.
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>>67176763
English soccer culture makes no sense?

Or makes no sense to YOU?
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>>67176317
>Emulating a culture that has soccer, because we've never had any = bad?
Yes.
Lets start with DC's Bara Brava. Bara Bravas aren't just cool hardcore supporters, they are fronts for various Argentinian mafia organizations with ties to professional soccer. So what are the jackasses at DCU doing? They're certainly not emulating Argentinian soccer culture. No, they're just calling themselves a dumb name that recalls a place where the sport is "done right" so they can pretend like they have some credibility.

American fans need to get over this inferiority complex that fuels this stupid attempt at imitating the rest of world. There is no correct way to be a soccer fan.
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>>67176823
>First place in NASL
>33rd place in MLS

Pick one
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>>67177101
>implying fapping causes heart disease
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>>67177133
It makes no sense in America, as in we are not a bunch of working class Brits who have been chanting the same shit (more or less) for generations.
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>>67177203
Agreed pham, tired of supporter groups and drums.
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>>67177203
>they are being soccer fans wrong
>there is no right way

We've only had this shit 20 years, fAm, it'll morph into its own thing in due time. Already the differences between individual support groups are growing.

Also you seem retarded.
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>>67177237
>implying "fapping" is the same as "'aving a wank"
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>>67177317
They're not being soccer fans.
They are LARPing as European football fans
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>>67177264
We'll make up our own shit.

Which, I can assure you, will be just as awful.
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