It's not often that players cross the Barca - Real divide anymore, but according to a report on Spanish radio station Al Primer Toque (Onda Cero), Neymar held a secret meeting with Real Madrid bosses in Zurich before the Ballon d'Or gala. (caughtoffside.com)
Lasch had this to say: «I had better explain at the outset that I include myself in much of what I plan to say about them, not because I was born after the war but because the real dividing line in recent American history — and this is one of the things that makes the demographical and essentially ahistorical concept of generations so treacherous — is the line between those who lived through the 1960s and those who didn't. (firstthings.com)
Patrick's «real divide» essay is an earnest effort at «branding,» one that preaches well to the converted. (firstthings.com)