29 h. ago MLS playoff picks: Will Messi, Son, Müller, or a dark horse make a run to the title?

The MLS postseason starts on Tuesday night. We assess the contenders for the championship, and take a look back at the talking points from the regular seasonHow little there was between the top teams. When all was said and done, just seven points covered the top six teams in the standings. The Supporters’ Shield race was settled with a game to spare, but any one of several sides could have finished top of the pile, which bodes well for the playoffs. Even by MLS standards, the field is wide open. GR Continue reading...

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29 h. ago MLS playoff picks: Will Messi, Son or a dark horse make a run to the title?

The MLS postseason starts on Tuesday night. We assess the contenders for the championship, and take a look back at the talking points from the regular seasonHow little there was between the top teams. When all was said and done, just seven points covered the top six teams in the standings. The Supporters’ Shield race was settled with a game to spare, but any one of several sides could have finished top of the pile, which bodes well for the playoffs. Even by MLS standards, the field is wide open. GR Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Lionel Messi wins MLS Golden Boot, playoff matchups set on Decision Day

The Argentine is widely expected to win league MVPPlayoffs begin with wild-card matches on WednesdayLionel Messi left no doubt on Decision Day.The Argentine icon s cored a hat-trick in a 5-2 victory over Nashville on Saturday night to wrap up Major League Soccer’s Golden Boot award with 29 goals this season. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Lionel Messi shows true colours and picks out Liverpool player after heroics

Lionel Messi has paid tribute to Rio Ngumoha as the Argentine football legend included the Liverpool wonderkid in a list of 10 of the best young attacking midfielders in the world

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2 w. ago The science of breakups: As Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban call it quits, scientists reveal the four key signs that a relationship is about to end

Four negative communication styles have been deemed so lethal to relationships that they've earned the title of the 'Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse'.

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3 w. ago Gary Neville changes Premier League title prediction after Arsenal close gap on Liverpool

Gunners took advantage of Liverpool’s loss to Crystal Palace, leading to claims that it will be a two-horse race for the title this season

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3 w. ago Geese: Getting Killed review – Cameron Winter and co’s surreal, swaggering spectacular

(Partisan/PIAS)Opaque but brilliant, the Brooklyn indie-rock band’s fourth album is full of the dread and dark absurdity of our current momentAt the end of last year, 23-year-old New Yorker Cameron Winter scored an industry hit with his solo debut Heavy Metal. The title was not indicative of its contents – this was a collection of droll, desolate dirges recalling the lugubrious greats (Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits) – yet Trinidad, the opener of his band Geese’s fourth album, actually does feature some metal-style screaming. What begins as an exercise in dreamlike, deconstructed soul soon erupts into a nightmarish cacophony of erratically parping brass, scrambled guitar and the shrieked refrain: “There’s a bomb in my car!”Getting Killed ripples with a timely dread: a combination of sonic dissonance – 100 Horses’ ramshackle maximalism, the title track’s frantic pile-up of voices and grooves – and surreal, sardonic lyrics. (“All people must smile in times of war”; “I’m getting killed by a ...

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