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@TaylorTwellman Today? 🤣

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@RodrigoFaez @herculezg What is it with Messi teams losing cup finals that brings out their true character?

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@Michael_James32 🙃

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@Michael_James32 Until Seattle can field all 3 DP’s they’ll always be playing below their potential. That said, they still have a solid MLS level group. The post mortem will be interesting because this game was...

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@StatessideFooty @NoahRiffe

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@tombogert @PaulTenorio Come to Seattle!!!

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@ELROLONW Good for Cody if he gets more minutes, but man I was really hoping to see him grow into a starting role in Seattle.

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@NoahRiffe FIFA peace prize…super sketch handling of ticket sales…commercial breaks…the game is so gone! In fact, I’d say it’s Balo-gone! 🙃

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@tombogert Are they interested in Pedro de la Vega? Seattle would take half that.

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🚨🗣️New: Thierry Henry reacts to the USA vs Paraguay stoppage for TV commercials:

“I’ve spent my entire life in this beautiful game — as a player at the highest level, as a fan, and now as someone who analyses it every week — and what unfolded during that USA versus Paraguay match left me deeply frustrated. The fourth official standing there on the touchline, arm raised high, instructing the referee to hold the restart… not for any injury, not for tactical reasons, and not even primarily for player hydration in that scorching heat. No. It was because the broadcast team hadn’t finished airing all their commercials. That’s not football. That’s a television show pretending to be a World Cup match.

The beautiful game is being strangled by greed. Players are out there in the heat, ready to restart, momentum building like a storm about to break — and we pause everything so the sponsors can cash in. It’s like stopping a symphony mid-crescendo because the advertisers want their jingle heard. Football didn’t conquer the world by turning into American sports with endless timeouts and ad breaks. We had rhythm, flow, emotion that flowed like a river. Now? It’s dammed up for dollars.

This isn’t about hydration or player welfare anymore — it’s a slippery slope where the soul of the game is sold piece by piece. Fans deserve better. Players deserve better. The referee on that pitch looked like a puppet on strings controlled from some broadcast truck. Enough is enough. We need to protect what made this sport the greatest on Earth before it disappears completely.”

The World Cup should be football’s cathedral. Instead, we’re turning it into a shopping mall with a pitch in the middle.

And here’s the question nobody wants to answer: if the fourth official is waiting for commercials, then who is really running the game? FIFA? The referee? Or the broadcasters?

Because the moment football starts asking advertisers for permission before asking the players, you’ve crossed a line.

The World Cup is supposed to be the showcase of football. Not the showcase of who paid the most for airtime.”

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@ShishirShelke1 @MLS So they have the means to install more cameras to capture better angles for VAR calls?

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@ELROLONW @CirclingSports Good thing it wasn’t a foul. Playing the man and not the ball is clear-and-obvious fair play 🤡

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@Michael_James32 Not having any speed in the first half was brutal. Not having a player with the ability to take on defenders 1-v-1 ala Georgi is a blatantly absent skillset in Seattle’s attack. This performance won’t help attendance.

#savethecaps …and we ain’t talkin’ ‘bout Danny’s tooth!

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@ELROLONW Not having any speed in the first half was brutal. Not having a player with the ability to take on defenders 1-v-1 ala Georgi is a blatantly absent skillset in Seattle’s attack. Zero creativity in the final third.

#savethecaps …and we ain’t talkin’ ‘bout Danny’s tooth!

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@Michael_James32 Everyone: Galaxy are pretty shit this year so Sounders should beat them handily.

Sounders: Hold my tooth

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@Michael_James32 Peter Kingston really made the most of his time. Great effort on offense and defense, plus helped jumpstart the break on that DeRo goal.

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Multiple sources can confirm the big meeting to discuss the future of #VWFC in Vancouver is now underway.

A who's who of big wigs has turned up to #SaveTheCaps

#MLS

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@Michael_James32 Maybe a more useful stat than xG is a stat that compares time of possession to goals scored? Like some sort of efficiency metric? I feel like Seattle would be near the bottom.

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@Michael_James32 Is it even the Sounders if they’re not using players out of position?