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Brazil really were woeful, but it's the same stuff that's been going on for years. No idea how to do anything collectively either with or without the ball. They can work the ball forward consistently enough to give their forwards a chance to influence the game. Instead they lose it in...

That can't be true. Barcelona would never cheapen themselves by having something as vulgar as a shirt sponsor. It's be completely against the ethics of that wonderful club. And they certainly wouldn't put a charity on their shirt for a couple of years (and be hugely praised for it) just to...

Dybala is a decent passer, but I think he does his best work when moving away from the play in order to stetch defences and isolate defenders, rather than going deep to get the ball and make passes. Yeah, I'd probably look for Pogba to feature a bit more centrally. He spends too much time wide...

I struggle to see them signing someone better, so my starting point for next season would involve Pereyra as trequartista. Ideally Juve's trequartista with the forwards they look likely to have next season (and without Pirlo in the team) would be more of a passer than a dribbler, but there...

Movement from Pastore, Messi and Di Maria is shit, so Argentina aren't able to move the ball quickly enough to trouble Uruguay. Might have got more of a game if the ref had started dishing out cards ten minutes earlier than he did. He let too much go. I'd have Pereyra on instead of Pastore.

Did you know that Juve were relegated in 2006 for bribing referees? http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/opinion/-2015-06-17-opinion-malik-the-corrupt-rhetoric-of-the-fifa-scandalhtml.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

Yeah, I'm not expecting it. I'm curious as to how Berardi would be used.

Yeah, that's a good deal for Mandzukic. Clearly, whether Juve actually need Mandzukic is another matter. The one thing that I would say is that I believe Morata-Mandzukic could work, provided they have a creative trequartista behind them. It's worth remembering that Morata is not a typical...

Their very own Michael Knighton? :D That would be amusing. Especially if he got so far as to smash the ball into the net in front of the Curva Sud, while wearing a Milan kit, before they realised he didn't have the cash.

Marotta will somehow hold the meeting at a 100 euro restaurant despite having just 10 euro in his pocket.

Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio both have some degree of Cuban heritage, I believe.

Just think if it ends up being eight years of Clinton then eight years of Bush. You'd have two families controlling the presidency for 36 out of 44 years.

Yup. Technically incorrect to call a defender a centre-half, of course. The centre-half position was originally a big midfield presence in the classic 2-3-5 formation before being moved back into defence as things developed towards 4-4-2 in the UK.

This is rather good. Blur's first album in ages. Far better than the stuff that bands usually put out after a reformation.