I saw American Made (excellent movie, by the way -- an asshole Tom Cruise is the best Tom Cruise) last (Tuesday) night assuming that the United States Men's National Soccer Team was going to beat or at least tie Trinidad & Tobago to advance to the World Cup Finals. Their 4-0 pounding of Panama Friday seemed to have assuaged any fears that they wouldn't make it, even though it was touch-and-go for a long time. One more point and they were in.
So touch me in the morning and then just walk away -- I bring up ESPN.com and I see that the fucking USMNT actually lost to last-place T&T.
No matter; Honduras would have to beat Mexico to force the U.S. to play a playoff against
No matter; Panama would have to beat Costa Rica to nudge the U.S. down to fifth place and elimination. But Panama was also playing at home and was motivated, whereas Costa Rica already secured its spot. (Detect a pattern here?) Therefore, Panama won, 2-1 (aided tremendously by a Panama Goal that didn't actually go in the net; doesn't CONCACAF use VAR???). And the USMNT were fucked.
People who give a shit about soccer, and many people who don't give a shit about soccer but have no problems pointing fingers and hating when things go tremendously wrong (aka Republicans) are up in arms about this humiliation. But none got his rant on better than Taylor Twellman on the ESPN post-game/post-mortem. You go get them underachieving fuckers, TT!
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