Perfect warm up fare. Dull, turgid, eleven subs at half time. They are, essentially, training games. (View Post)

It’s striking that the Americans make The West Wing which is a liberal fantasy of what they think the White House should be where in the U.K. we rip politics apart with Yes Minister/Prime Minister an… (View Post)

And led generations of politically minded Brits to assume the perfection of the checks and balances in the US system, and bag on about it a bit too much. Oh. (View Post)

Although that has led directly to VAR. (View Post)

Germans got their own back in 2010 with Lamparfs goal. (View Post)