US-England. Wembley. June 8.

damn, wish I could be there. Will this be Becks' 100th cap to stoke the fires?

Other USMNT dates this summer: June 24 v. Spain at either camp nou or the bernabau.
July something (tba) rumor of Argentina at maybe RFK, Gillete or the Meadowlands...

Qualifying starts in August, against either Barbados or Dominica in Carson. And then, if all goes well...Cuba. And who doesn't want the Cuba game (if, of course) played at RFK? Now that's some history for the battle!

Is that the sport where the players get bumped slightly and fall to earth as though they were shot by a bazooka in the head? Damn sure is funny watching them fall down, I must say.

where (And yes, I timed it) 17 minutes of real time at the Superbowl was spent watching someone lying on the ground getting medical attention. number of players who missed more than one consecutive play due to those injuries: 0.

17 minutes. for guys wearing armor a midieval knight would envy.

as a comparison, MLS cup last year. number of minutes the clock stopped for all the 'guys falling down': 5. for 90 minutes. (based on the extra time added at the end.

In Gringo Football the object is to knock the other guy's dick in the dirt, so to speak. Or, as one of my old coaches used to say... "Son. Put your helmet in the other guy's pee hole."

So when a 240 pound guy who is solid muscle with about 7% body fat who runs 40 yards in about 4.5 seconds .........puts his helmet in your adam's apple.... it hurts, even with pads and even if the guy recovers and gets up in 30 seconds or so. That's the....object of the game.... to intimidate by pain

When a soccer guy gets his hair messed up and acts like someone tried to cut his head off with an ice skate.... it's comical. Sort of like the flopping that is now going on in college basketball on the charge/block play.

but then, there is art in avoiding getting hit in round-ball, and it's not all about size and meanness. but it is much healthier to have really huge guys who die at 40 from organ failure. Ever wonder why there are so few old retired offensive linemen?

and if someone told my son to go put anything in someone else's pee hole, I'd start to wonder about their kiddie porn collection.

I don't disagree. I say it frequently, Gringo Football is for watching.... not playing.

But the original post was about the comical.... flopping.... those kick ball guys do.

I like soccer, fine. My next door neighbour if from "Narth of England" and pulls for The Mighty Reds. I pull for Chelsea since that's the part of London I've stayed in whilst visiting. My favourite part of the kick game is getting pissed whilst watching.

But those overly dramatic falls when someone barely touches them are hysterical.

At least they are actually scheduling some real opponents.

Instead of talking about international friendlies, why not discuss the weekends results in the EPL leaving the Gunners five points clear of Man U. Adebayor continues to demonstrate he is the deadliest finisher in the league.