10 Things We Learned From Manchester v North London and Premier League Week 3 - originally
posted on Soccerlens.com
We're just three weeks into the new English Premier League season and we have
already seen two of the greatest team performances of recent times, two of the worst team
performances of recent times, and two clubs in crisis.
That was bizarre. Not just clown showing up at a bachelor party bizarre, but a clown shows up a
bachelor party and is really the thought to be dead ex-wife of the groom bizarre.
Toronto and D.C. played to a 3-3 draw that may have been the strangest game at RFK ever. After
90 minutes, a butt-load of stoppage time, and 6 goals, I'm not even sure what happened.
After building BMO Field into a fortress in its first couple years in MLS, the Canadians' home
field doesn't quite carry the mystique it once did, at least not for the Black & Red. It was only
last year when Toronto faced D.C. at BMO Field and the Canadians were in a must-win situation. D.C.
had only pride to play for while Toronto was in the thick of the race for the playoffs.
He may have come off the bench and he wasn't the player of the game, but the night belonged to
Charlie Davies. Just one goal was enough to make it an unforgettable night at RFK, but that would
have been too ordinary for Davies' story. There had to be something even more special than his
penalty conversion, it had to be two.