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I work at fucking Starbucks so I have no real complaints. The wifey on the other hand could fill this entire forum till the servers exploded with nonsense from her occupation. Fuck me, imagine having the most casual, friendliest and efficient workplaces in the world only to have it do an 180' and become a literal joke of bureaucracy and level after level of management.

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People still watch this sport?

You cannot deny my body.

I want to go to Italy.

You gotta appreciate that the Blackhawks were dead in the water a decade ago. Nobody liked the team or the owner. Tickets were expensive, popular members of the organisation were fired, games weren't allowed on TV, the team was the worst in the league, etc. They managed to turn it around into a team that is involved in the community is universally loved on and off the ice.

No I have not. But I'll look into it and I'll brighten your day by showing you how deeply involved into the community my hockey team is. The Hawks are constantly having programs with local charities that include Native Americans, reading programs for the illiterate, hockey programs for primary school kids, homelessness, low-income student scholarships, and so much more. The players are always seen at charity events and fundraisers as well.

What is that je ne sais quois? Something cultural? Something to identify with being from a certain background or location? That isn't unique to football and the alienation from grassroots isn't unique to football as well. It's been a long time since West Ham players were local steel-workers; does the club still represent the local industry and culture? No I don't think any club does (outside a few exceptions, but they aren't the rule), but the fans do. All that matters is how the fans feel; if the fans feel like Arsenal represents an idea, an abstract of concept of what it means to be an Arsenal supporter then I suppose it still exists in it's purity. American sports fans still feel that way as well, particularly for the older teams, the Cubs represent the north of Chicago, the middle-class and the more WASP neighbourhoods. Their cross-town rivals are the working-class, the poorer people and African-Americans. Their is a reason why New York and LA are viscous rivals, because they represent to polarising cultures from the two biggest cities in America on opposite coasts. There are reasons to why Chicago and Detroit are rivals, the economic rivalries of Lake Michigan and Lake Eerie, etc.

Murdoch is Australian.

Clubs and players aren't comparable, mate! We are talking about winning on a club level is different to a player! You cannot bring George Best into a discussion about Arsenal and American sports. Nobody remembers the team that came third in America but they do remember the award winning goal-tender on the worst team in the league. Every team in America has at least something to brag about on a player perspective (because that is parity of NA). Cubs fans will always remember Ernie Banks and Sammy Sosa but they don't hum on the fact their team lost for 108 straight years, they don't brag about coming fourth. They appreciate their players but on the whole scale of the club, it's only winning that is important (competing is the first to that). More teams win in America because of the parity so it's a true rarity that legendary player goes without winning too much. Alex Oveckin is probably the second or third best forward in hockey today and people celebrate him for it, but they don't brag about how their team constantly underachieves.

Trying to become American sports franchises in what way? The only defining characteristic of American sports is winning. Winning is everything, all that matters is reaching the brass ring. It is the very nature of any sports team to win and that nature is curbed at Arsenal and in Europe in general. Merely qualifying is a seen as a victory in Europe, not so in North-America. European football is the furthest thing from American franchises, they are nothing like that and I'd say sports in America is more pure than in Europe. Nobody remembers who got to the quarter finals on the World Series but every single Arsenal fan will tell you about their constant top four qualification.

A club that doesn't want to win will never win. Why take a larger gamble on a trophy when qualifying guarantees the same return? Why spend more to win, when the club can coast along the same lines? Arsenal isn't a club, European football is dead and greed isn't filthy. There is more desire, heart and soul in North-American franchises than all of European football.

There are more issues than just Champions League football. Arsenal get embarrassed on a consistent basis in the league and Arsenal will never have the mental fortitude to defeat Bayern Munich if they get smacked 3-1 by Liverpool and 2-1 by Watford. A teams that barely qualifies yearly for Champions League, a team that always gets knocked out at the Round of 16 has no rights thinking about how to defeat Real Madrid and Barcelona. Focus on domestic issues before Europe. Walk before running.

Yeah, DID play those teams but at this rate that won't be happening next season.

Nobody said that Xhaka is the player needed to win the Champions League. Not every player in a squad needs to be world class and if Xhaka isn't the player to be depended on during the tight European moments doesn't mean he cannot be an important player in the other twenty games played in Europe. A team needs to get to playing Real Madrid and Barcelona before they worry about defeating Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Arsenal don't typically play those teams to win the league and FA Cup; or they not top honours anymore?

Well, you're the only person that has said that about Mustafi.

Mustafi or Xhaka for worst Arsenal transfers this decade? FUCKING ALBANIANS M8

My guess is she was trying to be disruptive

I wasn't really paying attention. I just assumed she was shrieking something about Trump.

A wild liberal appeared starting insulting people at a Trump rally and the Trumpians just insulted her. Happens all the time, the liberals are crazy aggressive and pretty much condescend the righties at every opportunity. It manifests itself into the right being just as childish.

Conte admits to homesickness. What a cunt; he is a millionaire that can fly home at anytime most of the year and be there in a couple of hours. I can afford Australia maybe once every two years and it takes over a day to get there.

It was probably the back-up catcher. It takes a lot of balls to have have balls thrown at 160kmph at you all day.

Vedran is a girls name.