All-Purpose, Never-Ending Soccer Thread

I shall be looking forward to this one.

I'll spend the morning watching Rangers v Inverness. Then I'll be off to Giants Stadium where a multi-hour tailgate will have me in the stands enjoying a Red Bull win!

Of course, after spending this past Saturday watching Scotland beat France 1-0, I thought I would be having fun with a Yankee win later. That just wasn't the case.

 

The way KC has played most of the year, I'm saying a 2-1 NY win.

 

I think that RBNY squeezes the game out as well, but their 1-1 result on Saturday was awful.

 

It seems that Mooch didn't make it. :'(

What a sad day.

I have a acquaintance that used to play soccer with him. By all accounts Mooch was a good guy and a great soccer mind.

 

Only 51 years old. No one had a bad thing to say about the guy.

Good piece by Wahl -- http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/grant_wahl/10/09/myernick.obit/index.html

 

Watch out for 16-year old Josmer Altidore for RBNY.
He's already got 3 goals in 7 games and has been on fire since RBNY brought him up from the reserve division.

A friend and I believe he'll be the breakout player (not Adu) for the U.S. at the 2010 World Cup.

 

Switching subjects here away from KC/NYRB:

Anyone here read the book "The Game of Their Lives"? The one about the 1950 WC team that beat England? It had a decent movie made about it, but the book is 10 times better. I'm about 2/3 finished, and it really gets into those guys' lives. Great, great read. The game itself takes up about 35 percent or so. Harry Keough and Frank Borghi are the kind of guys I'd love to have dinner with. Great, great read.

 

The result? Yes. Everything leading up to it? Not so much.

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I wouldn't be so quick to write off KC. The Wizards get to do what they do best -- defend and counter -- and the front line of Sealy/Wolff/Van den Bergh seems to be clicking. Would that have anything to do with Eddie Johnson's suspension?

Coincidence or cheddar?

 

I wouldn't be so quick to write off KC. The Wizards get to do what they do best -- defend and counter -- and the front line of Sealy/Wolff/Van den Bergh seems to be clicking. Would that have anything to do with Eddie Johnson's suspension?

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Indeed, don't write off the Wizards. They are the kings of the tie, and a tie gets them in the playoffs.

 

Oh the game wasn't that good. But the result was.


With KC and RBNY playing, I'll be surprised if it is NOT a draw. These two teams rack up ties like nobody else.

 

Is anyone else here an avid listener of the Guardian's Football Weekly podcasts?

I always enjoy their work, especially Barry Glendenning and James Richardson. They did good work during the World Cup, and it's only getting better.

Football Weekly:
http://football.guardian.co.uk/footballweekly/0,,1869989,00.html

World Cup podcasts:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/podcasts/world_cup

 

TB, thanks for the links. I may have to look into this.


Tonight is Scotland v. Ukraine. That will be a fun one. The game starts at 3 EST, but due to some television rights issue, I'll be grabbing it at my local at 8. That is a nice start time for me.