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Six Degrees: The Cruelest Sport

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I feel like I’m in a dysfunctional relationship with soccer. I love it so much, and it keeps treating me so badly. We play our archrivals, dominate them in every facet of the game, don’t allow them to score, and still lose 1-0? What the fuck, soccer? Why do you have to be such an asshole?

1) I say we dominated Seattle, and in many respects we did. We had more possession, we had more shots, we had more of pretty much everything. But there was one part of the field in which we did not dominate: the opponent’s 18-yard box.