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All-Season, Almighty, and All-Okay!!

shirobako

Yay!!! I get to WRITE something!!!  ((But you get to read it…..))   Generally speaking, my year-end posts have taken a mordant tone as the year draws to a close…a tone that I’ve wrestled with in the past to limited degrees of success. I’ve never much cared for the facile notion of looking back on…

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Louis Van Gaal Destroys The World (of Football) (Maybe)

ManU(re) 1      Swansea City 2   People win football games, not tactics. And the problem right there is obvious. You have to, well, deal with people. On the surface of it, on the ink-riddled paper, ManU(re) has better and more talented people than Swansea. But on the evidence of the scoreboard, that was…

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Os Referãos, Os Perdedores e Os Prejudicados

world cup 2014

This article has been translated from Portuguese by Gordura Nakagão   As I write this from the pilothouse of my steamboat moored precariously on the Amazon River slightly downstream from Manaus, gameday 3 of the 2014 World Cup has finished its march to mayhem. I have watched all 8 games so far and here I…