Is there something going on? Some speech that I should care about?
Nah.
Let's put up some soccer photos.

Jayne Mansfield at White Hart Lane, home of Tottenham Hotspur F.C., who probably didn't win anything that year either.

Crowd watching a Boca Juniors match, Buenos Aires, 1929

Thomaz Farkas, Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, 1947

Pele playing for Santos in a friendly at Sheffield Wednesday, 1962

Bobby Moore training alone at the Boleyn Ground, the home of West Ham Football Club, east London, 1962

Spectators at the Den, Millwall FC, South London, 1938

Seminarists playing football in Madrid, 1962, by Francesc Català-Roca
(FWIW, I think the second goal post is to the left outside the frame!)

Seminarists playing football in Madrid, 1962, by Francesc Català-Roca
(FWIW, I think the second goal post is to the left outside the frame!)

Augusto Cabrita, Football Ballet, Portugal, 1960

Nick Hedges, Boys playing football near the power station, Bradford, 1969

René Burri - Football, Rio de Janeiro, Ipanema Beach, 1958

John Sturrock, Boys playing football, Sighthill Cemetery, Glasgow, 1976

Supporters at a football match between Belgium and the Netherlands, Antwerp, 1913

"Druze man in Lebanon plays football" by Samer Mohdad

In the London Zoo in 1939, boy plays soccer with baby giant panda

Jecko Vassilev, Winter Soccer, Bulgaria, 1971

Arsenal goalkeeper George Swindin kicks the ball upfield during a match against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, London. 1937,
photo : A. Hudson

Elton John and Rod Stewart 'training' at Watford F.C.'s Vicarage Road stadium. 1973 or 1974

Marc Riboud - Football match, Wembley Stadium, London, 1954

Frank Hurley - Football match on Antarctica, Ernest Shackelton Expedition 1914

Arsenal goalkeeper Jack Kelsey peers into the fog, searching for the ball. The game was eventually stopped, Highbury, 1954.

Bob Thomas, Fans on the Spion Kop, Hillsborough, Sheffield, 1970

Pitch invasion at White Hart Lane, the home of Tottenham Hotspur F.C., North London, early 1970s

Bob Enriques, Marilyn Monroe kicking off the USA v Israel Soccer International at Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, 1959.

Playing football on ash pitches, Glasgow, 1955

Andreas Gursky - Dortmund, 2009

Manchester United v. Arsenal, Winter 1924

Abbas Attar, Colombia, 1976

Kragujevac Stadium, Serbia by Tomislav Peternek, 1955

Newsha Tavakolian - Katayoun Khosrowyar, Iran’s national under 14 football team coach, practices her skills in Tehran, 2015

Manchester City players training in the car park at Maine Road, 1969

Bob Marley juggling!

Jeremy Corbyn trying!

Hans van der Meer – Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, England, 2004

Francesc Català-Roca, Solar con Juegos, Madrid, c. 1950

And since I have to get back to work, let's close for now with my favorite:
David Guttenfelder, Boys playing football in an abandoned swimming pool, Afghanistan, 2006

Lotta Härdelin, boys playing football in an abandoned building in the jungle. Brazil, summer 2014.

West Ham manager Ron Greenwood holds the FA Cup, won by his team the previous Saturday, as he waits for a train on the Underground in 1964

Arsenal-Tottenham, 1934.

Sunderland players in the bath after beating Arsenal in the FA Cup Semi Final 1973

A young Preston fan celebrates a goal during a game against Chelsea. 1959.

Highbury, Arsenal, 1926.