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FC Astana are playing right now against Galatasaray. Looking at a map I see Astana is a city in Kazakhstan. It is east of Kabul and Karachi. Seriously, it is questionable whether Georgia and Azerbaijan (both east of Turkey) can be classified as Europe but with Kazakhstan we are now beyond the...

A goalkeeping error cost Arsenal big time. Petr Cech watched from the bench. He was being rested.:crazy: Do goalies really need rest days only 6-8 weeks into the season? What was the point of bringing Cech to Arsenal if you are not going to play him in the biggest games?

Martial has scored two goals this afternoon against Southampton. The second was a gift from Japanese defender Maya Yoshida. According to Wikipedia Yoshida was on the front cover of the Japanese version of FIFA 2014.

A couple of Japan's players didn't look all that Japanese. Some of them are even white: http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/japan/squad

Matt Ritchie's first Premier League goal was fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhtP2XEv_Ig I was pleasantly surprised by how much scorn the commentators heaped on Sunderland defender Younes Kaboul for his woeful defending in the match. He later got sent off too. Worldwide Brand...

Also, I was just looking at a Bosnian Serb nationalist twitter feed. You'd think that Serbs would be very worried that these migrants could end up staying in their part of the world. Instead this guy retweeted some other Serbian girl's photos contrasting Hungarian and Serbian police dealing with...

So all that German government concern about adherence to rules when it came to Greece was all just talk. Hungary has been abiding by the Dublin agreement but the Germans just unilaterally ignored it, then, again unilaterally, suspended the Schengen agreement on open borders between most EU...

Not Champions League but I think a big thumbs up is in order for the Lech Poznan ultras who boycotted their Europa League match on Thursday because 1E from each fan was being given to the Islamic invaders currently flooding Europe...

Oh boy. Martial scores on his debut for ManU and Benteke scores a "wonder goal" (according to the commentator) for Liverpool. An 18 year old black also scored Man City's winner (thanks to a goalkeeping error). I think I'm going to have to avoid any more English football on TV until after the...

I only saw the last two games. It looked like Vinci was, as you say, moving her around and also keeping the ball low so Serena couldn't use her power to hit outright winners. Get Serena into rallies and she's actually very ordinary in terms of her abilities. She's all about power - that's where...

Just turned it on to see Serena vanquished by Italian Roberta Vinci. She'll play another Italian Flavia Pennetta in the final.

I just saw highlights of the match only. Cilic got annoyed at the DWF crowd at one point. I went to Mens Tennis Forums. I don't post there but occasionally look at the comments when there are potentially political related events on the courts. One person who has been registered since 2002...

For Euro 2008 Northern Ireland beat Spain, took four points from their two matches with both Denmark and Sweden then threw it all away by losing to Latvia and Iceland (before Iceland were good). Tonight, seemingly right on cue they gave up a nightmare goal after being the better team most of...

To a lot of blacks she actually is sexy. They like their women hefty. Donald Young ("the comeback kid") just took to the court against Stan Wawrinka. Before the match he was asked about the self-help books that had been most helpful to him - apparently he's really into that sort of thing. My...

Germany's elite and, I'm afraid to say, quite a few of its non-elite are basking in their moral righteousness right now. In addition to Hungary the Germans seem to be zeroing in on Britain for being a laggard when it comes to "refugees". When you see the ridiculously soft touch uber PC UK as...

Hungary is taking a PR beating courtesy of the MSM and Frau Merkel. Today there is an editorial in the Grauniad calling Viktor Orban a disgrace. EUphiles are saying Orban's Hungary is not adhering to European values, yet it is only Hungary that is trying to actually enforce the recent EU laws on...

In Serena's quest for a calendar year grand slam her next opponent is...Venus Williams. Somehow I doubt Venus will be trying very hard.

The Dutch are trailing Turkey 2-0 early in the 2nd half. One of the black Netherlands players just missed an easy header. I think it was Wijnaldum.

The last time I saw Akinfeev playing for Russia was in the World Cup when he gave up a terrible goal against Korea. He just preserved a Russian victory with a fantastic save in injury time against Sweden.

Germany, Poland, the Netherlands...c'mon people what about the big Faroe Islands Northern Ireland match? NI take it 1-3 though it wasn't until FI went down to 10 men that NI got their second goal. So with three matches to play NI leads the group with 16 points, one up on Romania and four on...

I saw part of the Serena Williams match today against some unknown no-hoper from the Netherlands. Serena won it but only just. She moved with all the grace and speed of a hippopotamus. I'm wondering if her struggles today in the afternoon heat will lead to the tournament directors moving her...

Arsene Wenger doesn't sound impressed with Man United's new signing: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/sep/02/arsene-wenger-transfers-questions-80m-anthony-martial-deal Wenger picked up Cech for a fraction of what Van Gaal is paying for Martial. Of course, Man United are hoping the...

Ivorian arrested for the murders of two elderly people in Sicily: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11834743/Murder-of-elderly-couple-in-Sicily-fuels-Italys-growing-anti-immigrant-sentiment.html The Germans are demanding that more illegals like this guy be spread out...

To make matters worse a lot seeds have been knocked out of Serena's half of the draw. Belinda Bencic, the Slovakian Swiss girl who shocked Serena in Toronto a few weeks ago could end up being an opponent. I think I saw Makarova's name in that part of the draw too. She beat Serena in Australia a...

Mexico knocked out by Japan. I'm not too big to resist laughing at them crying on the diamond. Ha ha ha. Adios Mexico.:wave: