Bout time to get things underway from Seattle, host of this year’s MLS Cup. For me, the final match (if not the BASEketball-esque playoff structure) is the one thing that American soccer has over the international game. I know Ned’s eyes will spit ink like a Giant squid upon reading that sentence, but what can I say, it’s fun to have it all on the line. Ninety minutes for a season. Should also be a great crowd too, given that Becks is in town– they came out in serious force to see him when Real Madrid visited a couple years back– along with Em-Veeeeee-Peeeeee Donovan. Anyone know who the Galaxy are playing?
While you mull over that mystery, here’s something to whet your appetite for brilliant, dominant, comprehensive and historically prolific football!
One last program note: Looks like that knock on Beckham’s right ankle is still bothering him. Enough so that he “hobbled off” after practice yesterday. Still, he’s expected to play, and promised as much.
So how bout that display by Tottenham Hotspur Football Club today at White Hart Lane? They are quite a good team.
taking RSL tonight. 2-2 after 120, and Rimando is a Jedi in PK’s.
And we all should be celebrating Rovers taking down SFB. :)
Harry picked a good side today. Balanced side. 1-nil at Halftime and I was praying for the 2nd to kill it off. Never in my wildest dreams could I have predicted that. NEVER EVER play Keane, Defoe, and Crouch together.
Here. Got nuthin’ to say about the weekend.
I think those voice lowering lessons are working for Becks.
according to foudy, one of the players’ wives is “battling leukemia off the field.”
foudy “battles the english language off the field.”
At least she’s nice enough not to run onto the field with her leukemia.
/felt rightfully skeezy typing that.
No crowing from Spurs fans how the London squad outscored both teams in the Dallas-Washington NFL tilt?
When can we expect a commemorative DVD of the Spuds game?
42 minutes that rocked the world, part II?
No one is gloating. It was one of those good days.
Highbury Library: your side is quality but the smug lot that supports them are what makes them so “loved” throughout England. Just worry about your side winning something. Been a while
Smug like this?
http://relax.ru/video/view/?id=v7525877b7f
Beckham makes a positive contribution by hitting the fuck out of Morales.
@Harry
Inferiority complex? You know that if Spurs and Arsenal were reversed and Arsenal made a DVD of a 4-4 draw you’d make jokes about that, too.
No complex. Life is long and footy goes through ebbs and flows. Enjoy your club now. Forest, Leeds supporters etc etc have been where you are as well. Remember that mate
Morales is about to cry.
Wide receiver #84 Clint Mathis comes on for Morales.
Why doesn’t Clint rock the mohawk anymore? Oh.
quit cryin’ dweeb.
The standard of play is quite low
How slow is Berhalter? Does he break 6 seconds in the 40?
That was either a goal kick or a PK, not a corner.
Maybe a blackout would help here.
GOAL
RSL have no idea how to play the other side offside.
Seriously, one defender has held LA onside several times.
Dive by Donovan.
Ricketts hurt by his own guy.
Obvious no one else cares that much.
That was a nasty collision.
I’m at the in-laws and this game isn’t exactly making them fans of MLS.
that was really ugly…but it worked.
Can’t blame them there. RSL get a deserved equalizer. Edson Buddle needs to be taken off.
yeah…that sucker’s broken. you can see that swelling pretty clearly in HD.
GOOOOOOAL. Feel the excitement. It’s actually a good game. Not good as in the level of play is good, but good in that it’s entertaining, competitive, and it’s distracted me from work, the book I’m reading, cursed nfl football.
whatta puss. either youre ok to play or not. dpnt wait to give up a goal before you decide to come off.
Robbie Findley for USMNT?
Saunders is Puerto Rican…or at least enough to play on the national team there.
Shit–I hate RSL
didn’t realize Findley already had a cap…from way back in ‘07.
Has MVP touched the ball this half?
pathetic defending is saved by pathetic touch.
Think it would be good for MLS for LA to win.
MVP just fell . . . again.
Can someone back up the DVR and get a pic of the women yawning behind Kreis just now? I think that sums up what we are watching.
Buddle is useless.
He’s not getting MVP calls.
White T&T guy off.
Stop yelling at me, J.P., stop yelling.
What’s NYK’s stance on goalie clamdiggers?
he loves them.
Bud Selig says end it now.
is it golden goal or no?
So do I–I want to go to bed.
pretty colors…
oh my god, they actually addressed it! (no GG)
I don’t think Golden Goal exists outside of US school soccer (college and HS) anymore.
I just want to see Cletus get in a fight.
I liked the golden goal. They had in what, the 98 world cup? didnt paraguay beat someone with the GG? i might be making that up. there was 100% some very important euro game decided that way.
FFS…huge advantage in time of possession after five minutes…it’s called a small sample size.
“pulls it back like an artist”…
Would have made more sense if he said Mohel.
Does Mathis wear that number in honor of the Kostityn Bros?
im openly rooting for this game to be won on a goal set up by a blatant handball.
@TLL The wiki mentions Euro 96 and 2000 as finals that ended on Golden Goals.
last question: where in salt lake city did all these ethnic dudes come from?? they have to be plants.
Do they talk about cricket and darts during SKY broadcasts?
Nice Ryan. You are a sleuth, indeed. I remembered the 2000 finish, but the 96 i always thought was on PKs.
@goat i think so, yes. at the end.
darts at the end. cricket at anytime.
and according to wiki (and the facts, im remembering more now) it was france who beat paraguay in 98 in the round of 16 with a laurent blanc GG
galaxy look like the old guy team still playing in the open division. time is not on their side.
@TLL: I wondered that too. Maybe the Mormons are winning Latino recruits.
so close.
Who else heard that F-bomb?
Somebody’s got a pretty mouth.
I bet either Lando or Becks fucks up their penalty.
Bruce Arena gets dressed in the dark.
Do Something!
Bob Bradley chooses his lineups in the dark.
CHOOOOOOOOOKE
Saunders played for the Timbers, so I guess I will root for him in the shootout.
Mathis barely had a run up. Nice arrogance after the make too.
Berhalter with a great shot.
I don’t like Mormons so I’m rooting for LA.
Findley with a well place shot as well.
Way to jinx him Harkes. Poor take as well.
too stoned to score. happens.
GET A HAIR CUT HIPPIE
Saunders doesn’t like stinky dreads.
Landy pulls a Becks!
GLAVIN!
MVP – MVP – MVP
hahahaha. talking about it with the sports guy did him in!
Called it.
Moooooooooooooooooooooooon river, wider than a mile.
Well that makes for a shit story.
Saunders!!!
show the wife now?
Except for Saunders, I guess.
Even Englishmen think that was a bad penalty.
Buddle to redeem 2 hours of nothing?
Nah, not happening.
Called that one.
Cup finals suck. Good for Rimando, at least.
good thing for galaxy they have an englishman in the ranks. he can guide them through this.
whaaaaat? RSL was under .500 during the reg season??
Well they had Joseph Smith on their side.
11-12-7 using the WLT format.
“No hope … no hope”
- that guy’s wife
ughhh, dave checketts is a cocksucker. (didnt re-seign messier in ‘97) RSL went that absurd rout the Red Bulls almost did last year. They played in the Western Conference, but won the Eastern. Just remarkably stupid.
they talk about beckham like he was brave for taking the first pk. that’s a wuss move. take the 3rd or 4th, that’s the money time.
Landycakes miss will not be good for containing Simmons’ ego. Guaranteed article about how he jinxed Donovan coming?
If he wrote more than one article a week anymore.
Simmons is guaranteed to write about footy this week, since it’ll give him the opportunity to pretend to be a Spurs fan (or, as he calls them “the” Spurs), and to write up Landycakes’ miss.
(1) I, unlike some, can respect the fact that playing meant that much to Morales, that he cried when he had to come off b/c of his knee. Or b/c he knows he seriously hurt his knee. Either way. I also respect the fact that Kreis was over there comforting him. Men do, in fact, cry.
(2) I have deduced that Buddle’s role in the Galaxy is as a foil, to make Landycakes et al. look good. I can’t believe how much he sucks. Really, really, really.
(3) This game was not exactly a great advertisement for MLS. Maybe the MLS should spend more time focused on the quality of play than what its coaches and players have to say about the game.
(4) Why did I waste the 3 hours necessary to watch this game? Why, God, why?
Oh, and (5) Where did Jason Kreis’ lips go?
6) Wow, that was a shit penalty by Beckham. He was saved by the keeper guessing wrong.
Keith, It was better than Donovan’s. :P
Well, yes, yes it was. But it was just about as good as Yones Kaboul’s in the Pompey-Stoke tilt yesterday.
Are you hinting that Landycakes should go play for Pompey?
No, I was saying the only difference between Beckham’s penalty and Kaboul’s was the keeper guessing right on Kaboul’s. There’s taking a cheeky penalty, and then there’s what Beckham did.
But Landy on Pompey might be crazy enough to work.