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Stop Defending Tony Meola’s Haircut

On the one hand, Americans are still faced with the “Soccer is Gay and Foreign and Makes My Shriveling Mind Hurt” genre of xenophobic sports journalism — which hasn’t evolved in two decades. But the counter-genre — “Will Soccer Now Make It in America?” as exemplified by Hendrik Hertzberg’s recent piece in The New Yorker — has grown equally tiresome and obsolete. The argument is over, and the TV ratings for the World Cup prove it. “It’s not 1990 any more; we don’t have to defend Tony Meola’s haircut.” (Zach Dundas/True/Slant)

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How José Mourinho is Like Leonard Cohen

“Inter’s display was not Champagne Football — rather a concoction of dark tannins and bitter tones, made to be sucked down at 4 am when love has died and the world is against you…Inter’s hour-long, man-down goal-line stand — in which this team of interchangeable, husky, aging men with shaved heads posited a form of football played entirely without a ball – put me in mind specifically of some lyrics from [Leonard Cohen's] “The Captain.” (Zach Dundas/True/Slant)