-United hosted Lyon (Ligue One) in Edinburgh and beat them 1-0 in a club friendly.  The Red Devils will head to the US now as part of the Premier League Tour with 5 other clubs.

-One of those, Chelsea, is in Chapel Hill tonight to take on Wrexham.  I’d say that Wrexham is the defacto home side, but Chelsea has a unique relationship with youth leagues in North Carolina and I kind of feel like they’re going to get the majority of the supporters.

-Women’s World Cup starts in the middle of the night tonight with the US women playing on Friday night at 9 pm (no clue what time or day it will be in Auckland) against Vietnam.

-North Carolina FC will host Sunderland from the EFL Championship (Spent about a decade in the PL before being relegated in consecutive years down to League One, but two years ago bumped back up and last season reached the promotion playoffs so this should be fun.  Sunderland has only been playing football since 1890…

-And, it’s Lionel Messi week….

Not sure if we’re about to see an uptick in offensive linemen tweeting about how disrespected they are as a group, but Dallas’ Zach martin is considering a hold out because he feels like he’s underpaid.

-$11 million cap hit this year and his $14 m annual value is 8th among guards in the league….former BC OG Chris Lidstrom is first at $21…Quentin Nelson from Indy is second at $20m

Everything yesterday seemed to be about Saquon Barkley and his situation with the Giants.  

-didn’t sign for $10m

-Wants long term deal and wants to be in NJ

-In addition, there is another factor and this this is why so many running backs have been upset about this…

Not that this is just about the NFL’s New Jersey teams, but there’s a reason why the NFL wanted the Jets on Hard Knocks….

-Incidentally, the Jets will not make this easy.  They’ve said that they will not show players being cut because it’s inhumane!

-We all know why the Jets are the fascination….Aaron Rodgers….Super Bowl or Bust???? 

Martin Slumber of the R&A is not ruling out accepting investments from the PIF in the future…