There is a caveat to this post: we don't have it near as bad as Red Bull fans have it. True, they have a new stadium coming, but that team is a disaster from top to bottom, with little hope of immediate recovery. Now that I've cleared that up, this is a bad time to be a United fan.

The breadth of this experience was on display Sunday afternoon.

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A busy day at Offside HQ, and whole boat load of stuff to talk about. Strap in.

- First and foremost, roster moves. The long rumored, and now finally finalized move for David Habaruguira, defender from Anderlecht in the Netherlands. He had throughly impressed Tom Soehn, enough that he had this to say,

"He is pretty versatile, pretty polished," Soehn said.

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Well, you kind of knew it was going to happen. For 45 minutes, United was able to frustrate Madrid, keeping compact and with great goalkeeping. Unfortunately, you can't hold back the ocean. There is a reason they've spent so much money this offseason. The attacking weapons that Real Madrid have, even in reserve, are an embarrassment of riches.

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If you've been following me in the past week or so, or are a poster on BS or BTB, you might know that I was a tad infuriated with the team selection last Tuesday at RFK against Firpo. I thought that it was pure evidence that the team didn't take the tournament seriously, despite lip service to the contrary.

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Well, the whole two half things has never been more apt. I don't know what Tommy said to the team in the locker room, but it worked something special.

The first half was honestly the worst 45 minutes of soccer I've ever seen. I'm counting Screaming Eagles pickup games in that assertion.

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Tradition
Ah, the annual trip to the concrete jungle, the armpit of america, RFK North. With Red Bull Arena under construction and supposed to open for the 2010 season, this could be the last time United plays the metroscum/pink cows in the spectacularly horrid Giant Stadium.

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The rumor was flying around last week and now its official. Avery John has been added to DC United and Francis Doe has been shown the door to free up a roster spot. Goff broke the news yesterday on his blog over on wapo.com. Nobody was sure who would go to make room for John.

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Sorry this is getting up so late, but better late then never. Moving and packing is a time consuming situation. Anyway, Chicago is rolling into town tonight, coming off of a strong performance last week, beating FC Dallas, 3-1. The only offense Dallas had was a 60 yard bomb by Kenny Cooper, so the [. Click to continue reading...

Here you go. Senior roster (20 spots) 1.Burch 2.Crayton 3.Doe 4.Emilio 5.Fred 6.Gomez 7.Jacobson 8.Jakovic 9.Janicki 10.Khumalo 11.McTavish 12.Moreno 13.N'Silu 14.Namoff 15.Olsen 16.Peters 17.Pontius 18.Quaranta 19.Simms 20. ? Developmentals 21.Wallace 22.Barklage 23.Miller 24.Kocic Now, there is one final battlemodo to go on here. Click to continue reading...

I have got to get out of this habit of only posting post game reports... I was there last night, and I was fairly pleased. I say fairly because there were some stupid passes in the midfield, and some questionable play by certain players (I'm looking your way Emilio), and because we SHOULD get three [. Click to continue reading...

According to Hertha Offside, it looks like Arguez may not only transfer to Hertha, but he might make the First team! That's great news for him I'm sure, and I'm sure DC would be compensated. But here are the things I wonder...

If Arguez is good enough to start for a Bundesliga team, is he not also good enough for an MLS team?

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