When it was discovered today that Bobby Rhine passed unexpectedly of a heart attack, it hit the
greater MLS community fairly hard. Rhine had played 10 years with Dallas and just recently entered
the broadcasting field as a rapidly rising star. Fans in Dallas are holding a memorial this
evening. His family is asking for donations made in his name to the FC Dallas foundation.
Denmark was victorious in the "Nordic Derby" this evening, there was much anticipation leading
up to this game with some mind games going on. Featured player, Nicklas Bendtner played 87 mins and
had a great game to be honest, he lead the line really well and showed what he was all about
dropping deep for the ball and driving at the heart of the Norwegian defence and putting in
Rommedahl and Krohn-Dehli on a couple of occasions, along with that he scored two goals the latter
was a great fizzing low drive from about 25 yards.
We are on the road tonight, so here is a vault piece from earlier in the season. This was part
of our series that looked at the art of televising soccer.
The Major League Soccer 2011 season got started on Tuesday night with a nationally broadcast
match carried by ESPN. Fans of all sports are frequently critical of the television presentation
of sports events and soccer fans are no different.
Perhaps we are now so used to the gamesmanship of Sir Alex Ferguson in press conferences and
interviews that we now look for subliminal messages in everything he says without even thinking
about it. His comments yesterday on the nature of the relationship between football and television
have certainly provoked debate, though, not least from those that have chosen to reflect upon the
irony of the manager of a club that has arguably benefited more than any other from the expansion
of television rights into being the main financial mover in the modern game commenting on the
influence of broadcasters being to "shake hands with the devil.
