Inter Miami 4 – 0 Toronto FC, the scoreboard at Chase Stadium declared, as if the universe itself had decided that humility was best administered in bulk. From Buenos Aires boardrooms to Lagos betting kiosks, the result scrolled across screens with the quiet inevitability of a tax bill. Messi—now 37, hairline receding faster than his…
Seattle Sounders vs. Inter Miami: A Glittering Mid-Table Skirmish Disguised as World History By Dave’s Locker International Desk If you squint hard enough from the International Space Station, the emerald smear of Seattle and the neon smudge of Miami look like two bruises on America’s coastal underbelly. Between them, last Saturday night, a football match…
Argentina’s Blue-and-White Circus Rolls On, Trailed by Ghosts, Goalposts, and Global Schadenfreude By “Bitter” Bill McAllister, Senior Correspondent, Buenos Aires Bureau (currently working from a bar that claims Maradona once sneezed on table 9) In most countries, football is a sport. In Argentina it is an ongoing, slightly unhinged national therapy session that the rest…
