There’s no reason why Jozy and Davies weren’t in this tournament the whole way, Torres, hell Beasley could of helped much more, I would have liked to see Marvell Wynne better than Heaps, he is done and has no future in his career the guy is 32!

Why on earth not play guys like Feilhaber, treat the tournament like is not important and now you got embarrased, I just don’t want Bob to get a new contract after SA, he is only there because he is American and quite frankly is not enough!

I hate Bob Bradley, he really needs to learn how to choose his players, Jay Heaps was exposed, Goodson and Marshall were also exposed for the inexperienced players they are and the midfield also had no experience and no one could calm that team down!

Where was Jose Francisco Torres, Damarcus Beasley and Benny Feilhaber, all players who could use the games and have experience as of late or veteran years!

Why not use Jozy?

Hell why not make sure they tighten up the defense after the 1st goal, hell after the 2nd goal?

I’m not happy at all, not because we lost, but because it was a shame that it looked like they gave up after the 1st goal, poor poor consistancy!

US vs Mexico are playing a very tight match, Medina is garbage unless he’s going down the flank to make a secondary assist and he hardly ever does that properly, this is a very questionable US team vs a talented Mexico team, Dos Santos is the only guy who is worthy right now. Torrado I don’t know why is captain, and he is a starter for Mexico has been unless he gets his dirty behind suspended, Gio started at least 6 qualifiers between the 1st 5 in hexagonal and the 8 previous ones!
Pinto has started twice in qualifying I believe, Magallon was a starter when Galindo went down, and Medina has started too.
I believe Valenzuela started some games as well, “Gringo” Castro started in the World Cup I don’t know what happened to him after that, Carlos Vela started I think 4 qualifiers so I expect Mexico to play better than this, but I’m glad is a clean game so far, a little nudge from Torrado on Ching, but I can live with that!

Avg. Attendance for LA: 20,814/24,252/26,000+
Avg. Attendance for Dynamo: 18,935/15,883/16,939 but for the playoffs it has been 20,274/30,530/30,053

So there we go those are the stats, but when we compare those three years using on-field performance we’ll get LA Galaxy no MLS Cups/Playoffs, and Houston Dynamo 2 MLS Cups/3 Playoffs. International Competition has Dynamo making 1 Superliga Semi,1 Superliga Final, 2 CONCACAF Champions’ Cup Semis, and 1 CONCACAF Champions’ League Quarterfinal, while the Galaxy only has 1 Superiga Final and a CONCACAF Champions’ Cup Quarterfinal. So if we compare on-field performance Dynamo is superior all without spending outrageous amounts on players.

Chelsea and Barca both play good football, and well the Champions League already passed so lets let that go. Barca won the UCL so even if we don’t like them we have to give them props because they also took La Liga and Copa Del Rey so clearly it wasn’t just all good luck!

I have on thing we can agree on and I’m pretty sure both Edwin and Coach H will agree Pachuca is the best football team in the world and Mexico will win Gold Cup today. See I’m willing to take all the flaming rather than seeing two great posters fight each other like a bunch of whinny ManU fans!

Oh and you call the team in LA, the 2nd most successful team in MLS BTW, who actually had a nice feud with your team when it won 2 MLS Cups, Oh BTW several of the Dynamo players are Galaxy rejects!

So yeah what did you call them? Gaylaxy? A little homophobic aren’t we?

Good for you to call out Ballack and Drogba, although I don’t remember you saying anything other than how Barca didn’t deserve to win and how Chelsea was the better team for having successful tactics, blah blah blah!

Martino can be a somewhat bad announcer but he was a pro player so I’ll trust him till I see him in action and listen to him at least a few games.

About criticizing our fans, look up the stats buddy, the Galaxy have been leading the MLS in attendance since about 2003, I believe they barely missed the #1 spot in 02 and were in the top 4 between in 01

Here’s how the Galaxy has done in attendance:

1996: 1st
1997: 2nd
1998: 1st
1999: 2nd
2000: 1st
2001: 4th
2002: 2nd
2003: 1st
2004: 1st
2005: 1st
2006: 1st
2007: 1st
2008: 1st

And now that Beckham’s back guess what, they’ll take sole posession of 2nd place, the only team that will have a better fan base is Seattle and it will stay that way till they get their own stadium and if that stadium is smaller, which we all know probably won’t happen since Qwest is owned the the Sounders and is great for soccer minus the turf, which in time might be put in place. So yeah LA not only has better fan base than Houston, they hold their team accountable for not winning yes they booed David, would you rather have them cheer him on like nothing happened?
Almost everyone who has sense and knows about soccer is well aware that it was the right thing to do by LA fans, including Glenn I might add, the only thing that shouldn’t of happen was the idiot jumping onto the field!

I don’t believe Rob even broke 16K, actually they barely broke 15K, so yeah might want to check your facts, it might look full on TV if all the fans were seating on the bottom part of the stadium, which most likely is the case, specially since the goal lines are the cheapest tix and fill up the quickest.

Let it go man, Glenn is trying to prove the new watcher on ESPN how great soccer is, and how great it can be in their specific city if they were to start to follow it.

I thought you were a reasonable soccer fan, but then again, I remembered that you are a Barcelona fan and it all comes back to me. Go back and read what I wrote. With Martino, it is not that he liked Seadorf’s goal better than Drogba’s. It was that he thought it was a better goal, which any unbiased soccer fan will admit is a crock of you know what! Had the goals been reversed and he said that Drogba’s was better, I would say the same thing! It is not that he likes a team more or less, it is that he is just an idiot when it comes to the game. Perhaps that is why he isn’t playing anymore, but you will defend him, since he played for the Gaylaxy!

In regards to surrounding the official, you bet I was mad with the way that Chelsea did that in the Champions League Final and I called out Ballack for acting like a moron. Drogba got what he deserved as well. The fact of the matter is that neither Glenn, nor Martino said anything about Ljunberg making a selfish decision to go after the official after he was booked for simulation. Eric Wynalda would have been all over his case, as well as Thorrington’s case for his needless yellow card for dissent in the first half, but then again, ESPN doesn’t want an announcer to be truthful. We want announcers that talk about crowds and and cities, call cheats great players who are just misunderstood here in MLS, and make sure that no one says anything bad about David Beckham! It is an insult to American Football fans, and if this is the best we have, like Leo says, then the state of football on ESPN is a joke! But then again, they talk about being a great soccer network, then put Jim Rome on the air after a game saluting the Mens National Team with a Capri Sun! Way to go guys for calling him out on that!

As for the fans, Edwin, you have to be kidding me that LA has a better fan base than Houston does. That team was struggling to get people in the door, despite AEG doing everything they could to make it happen. The only time people started going to games is when they signed Beckham. What a load of front running, get their late, leave early, bash my team and players, low lifes are Gaylaxy fans! If you think there were just 16k at the Dynamo game last night, you have to get your head examined. The stadium look and felt like a 21 to 22K crowd last night, but then again, we wouldn’t want Houston to supplant a fan base like the mighty LA!

If we want this sport to grow here in the states, then we have to be truthful and not be afraid to tell the truth, even when it might hurt someone’s feelings. Listen to La Liga or EPL matches and those announcers will not hesitate to tell you the truth, even if it is not the popular opinion, unless you listen to Ray Hudson and that guy is seriously in love with Leo Messi. I can’t wait to hear about his man crush on Ronaldo all season long on Gol TV!

Anyway, off to Dallas for my 3rd Chelsea game of the trip. Any time you want to talk to a passionate soccer fan, just let me know and we can talk!