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Congratulations to Real Salt Lake on their MLS Cup win. Impressive stuff. Unlike Landon
Donovan's penalty.
Rocky has a recap on RSL Offside, and Laurie had a big front page post with photos.
There'll obviously be an MLS break from now until March 2010, which gives us plenty of time to
find an excellent MLS blogger.
Photo via Al Santos/DC Sports Box
If you are one of those American soccer fans who, in the post-MLS Cup lull of the last few
weeks, watched the NCAA Division I men's and women's ‘College Cups,' I'm sorry. I fear that the
games were the types of rough defensive affairs that won't deter soccer aficionados that look at
the American college game with disdain (though I personally enjoyed watching).
The phrase which was needed earlier to explain the result was 'in the greater scheme of
things'.
Now it will be used. (Ironically, I'm not taking the piss).
The point is (geddit?), that whilst it was two points dropped rather than one gained, in the
greater scheme of things its completely irrelevant.
As we head into the festive season, English fans are wrapping the present they give themselves
before every World Cup – the gift of unbridled confidence in their national football team. And
yet, as they have for the past 40+ years, those English fans are likely to stick their thumb in the
Christmas pudding and pull out something far less enjoyable than the plum.
With J Hutcherson -- My big picture contender for yesterday's number one thing I expected to happen
over the last ten years that didn't? The English Premier League remains a 20-team league playing 38
games. In the era of the never-ending season in North American sports, I thought there would be a
push back across the Atlantic.
Rafa Benitez has revealed that playing a part in helping to reduce Liverpool's debt burden was one
of the most important issues he had to manage over the summer.
Liverpool's financial situation has been cited as a reason for the team's lacklustre first half to
this season, with Benitez not given the funds to strengthen his squad.
It is pretty amazing that the Roar would allow the story that Craig Moore rang from the Middle east
to say that he would come back next year if Ange left, was allowed to get out. It isn't surprising
as a story. But unless you think that any news is good news, you don't want stories like that out
there.
