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Two Funny Videos From This Weekend In Soccer. Simple As That

Although the Premier League kicked off this weekend and demands our undivided attention, I think you’ll be pleased to see a couple things outside of Pep Guardiola spending $1 billion on assorted full backs. I give you two videos unashamedly taken from r/soccer.

If you don’t know, r/soccer is a sort of void that begins in the pit of your stomach before lodging at the back of your throat — it’s the ultimate representation of what it means to see fear in a handful of dust. It’s like Twitter in that respect.

Bayern Munich Wunderkind Alphonso Davies Has The Voice Of An Angel

With all due respect to Whitney Houston, who had one of the greatest voices ever, we think Alphonso Davies has just performed the greatest rendition of “I Will Always Love You.”

Watch Roberto Carlos Recreate Masterful Free Kick 22 Years Later

There is, perhaps, no more iconic free kick than the one struck by Roberto Carlos against France at the 1997 Le Tournoi.

Taking aim 40 yards from goal, the Real Madrid icon ripped a shot that still today is hard to believe, curling the ball so far wide of the goal and back in that legendary French goalkeeper Fabien Barthez didn’t even attempt to make a save.

Zlatan Trashes MLS Playoffs: ‘I Think The System Is Sh*t’

Americans love their playoffs, as much as apple pie, the Star-Spangled Banner and LaCroix. It’s why we put up with 162-game baseball seasons and the New England Patriots winning year after year.

Zlatan does not love the playoffs.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic channeled his inner Jim Mora on Thursday to trash the Major League Soccer playoff format, saying the “system is shit.”

Chelsea Fans Bombard David Luiz's Restaurant With Negative Reviews After Move To Arsenal

Arsenal has had a much more eventful transfer window than fans anticipated. Initially given a transfer budget of just $54 million, it seemed as though the Gunners would continue their tradition of promising fans a lot but offering them very little in terms of actual signings.

EPL Finally Launches Its YouTube Channel And There Goes Your Productivity

The Premier League is almost 15 years late to the YouTube party, but the world’s most-watched domestic competition is making up for lost time by starting things off with some damn fine content over on its newly christened YouTube channel. 

New Wigan Mascot Is Truly The Stuff Of Nightmares

We here at The18 are all for clubs doing goofy, weird, absurd and just strange things in the spirit of differentiating themselves, so we were excited to see this new Wigan mascot unveiled Friday.

And yet, I can’t help but think this anthropomorphic pie will haunt my dreams for years to come. 

Defender A.J. DeLaGarza And The Houston Dynamo Are Pissed

Jordan Morris scored his fifth goal of the season against the Houston Dynamo on Saturday. The goal ended up being the match-winner, bringing the Seattle Sounders to an 11-5-6 record and second place in the Western Conference.

The goal itself, which took a fair amount of skill and strength from the USMNT winger, ended up being much more controversial after the match than during it.

Mesut Özil Destroys Tottenham Fan On Twitter

The Arsenal-Tottenham rivalry is among the fiercest in Europe, so if you go at someone from the other side, expect some retaliation.

One Spurs fan went after Mesut Özil and his tendency to go missing in matches, but the German playmaker hit back. Hard.

Jurgen Klopp Ends Press Conference By Giving Hug To His ‘F*cking Doppelganger’

It is, perhaps, the greatest hug in sports, maybe even the entire world. The infectious enthusiasm of a Jurgen Klopp hug is impossible not to love, even if you’re an Everton fan. 

So in one sense, you can’t blame a reporter in Indiana for using a follow-up question to ask for a Klopp hug of his own.

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