Sex Pistols, Merle Haggard, World Cup

I now recommend Bill Weir's Twitter feed:

Despite the tie, Alexi Lalas says we should celebrate. So bring in the strippers and Zima (sigh).

For the rest of his life, the UK goalie will look at his fish and chips and wonder about the purity of the tartar sauce.

I'm quickly learning that soccer is vast stretches of tension sprinkled with lucky flashes of release. Kinda like marriage.