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Training for the 2016 World Cup takes time, you know.
2
I want to bring a flare to a sounders match.
3
Oh, Lord. This Sounders-Timbers shit is ridiculous. They fucking started it, with their "ACES" (Any Club Except Seattle) and the "Keller: Do The Cobain" banner (with pic of shotgun), but it's stupid and needs to stop.
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OH NO MY SCARF ANYTHING BUT THAT
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Hmph. Because soccer fans have such a long-standing tradition of being civilized, right?
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I'm sitting at an open air mall in east San Diego right now. I just got back from the beach and the zoo. San Diego is like Seattle -- only with year round sun shine. From what I can see, you can rent a 2 bedroom apartment around here for $1200.

I'm not really seeing the advantage of Seattle over San Diego at this point.
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Oh, the indignation expressed by the P.I. commenters is just precious. Come on, one incident doesn't mean that we're headed for Brazillian soccer riot territory. "Friendly rival banter" probably means "drunken assholes swearing at each other". It's gonna happen occasionally. The best thing any one of us can do is not contribute to it ourselves.
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Fnarf, I highly doubt that it's going to go away anytime soon, particularly since Portland is going to be joining our division in a year's time. It's as stupid and not stupid as any sports rivalry.

wisepunk- March to the Match at night is all I'm going to say.

Our guys should be ashamed, though. 3 on 1 is no way to fight.
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And lovely timely usage of the word 'Hooligan'! It's thought to come from the surname 'Houlihan', for a particularly rowdy Irish family living in London around the turn of the previous century...

Lord luv the Irish!
10
Didn't this guy learn anything from Liverpool FC?

You shall never walk alone!
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Wait a minute - isn't Savage a Houlihan? That would explain a lot.
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I'm with #7
Not saying it was acceptable, but I'm sure the "friendly Banter" wasn't quite as innocent as they are framing it.
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@2, @8, I looked long and hard for green flares, but apparently they only have the nautical kind you shoot 300 feet in the air with a gun, which is a little more show than I'm interested in.
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oh fnarf grow a pair, like these guys woulda balked at that kind of flare:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs…
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I'd be angry too, if I just watched a 90 minute game with only one goal. And was compelled to stand throughout the whole thing. Booo-ring.
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@14, yeah, those guys weren't really football fans, they were violence fans. And they're all fat fiftyish old men with bad knees now, peddling their "ooh, I'm hard, really I am" memoirs. Fascinating book, but those days are long past in England.
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I absolutely don't agree with assaulting anyone, and I'd be pissed if I or a friend were the victim.

But from a soccer culture perspective, IMHO, this is kind of great.

(Fnarf, if you think MLS isn't about things that are "long past in England," you haven't checked the rosters lately.)

Plus, it's not like we have to be afraid of Portland's retaliation (disdainful hipster shrug?)
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@ 16, yeah those were some classy gents, though some of 'em were fat and fifty at the time... I figured you'd know the book and just wanted to give you some ribbing pleasure.
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Well, at least this more interesting than the pissing contest over which city is better at enriching the art of coffee-making.
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^this is
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"Fat, fifty-ish men with bad knees." Hmm, sounds like Fnarf is describing himself there. :p
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Fuck a duck, laterite, close your Goddamned tags.
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That is some high quality code the stranger is running, when a comment changes things outside the comment window.
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Aw, shit, the whole thing's held together with chewing gum and bailing wire.
25
Woah, woah, woah.
The Timbers won a game?
26
You wear a soccer themed scarf you deserve to be strangled.
27
Well shit, that's the last time I post from an iPhone. And while drunk.
28
they watched "Green Street Hooligans" one too many times...

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