ESPN MLS Primetime Thursday = Cancelled

Steven Goff over at Soccer Insider found this interesting article from Sports Business Journal, stating that ESPN is dumping the "Primetime Thursday" format due to it's extremely lousy ratings. In its place they will have games on Saturday, Wednesday, Friday, and Thursday. I guess this is a good idea, it could cause a conflict of interest though with the FSC game of the week on Saturday. Also this probably means that no more games will be pre-empted by WNBA games with final scores of 20-10, and if thats the case then im 110% for change. What do you think? Will it work? Will they get better ratings?

Tottenham Heelspurs..

I just watched the Tottenham v. Portsmouth game and I just felt the need to comment on it because I had predicted the Spurs to finish in the top 4 this season. They dominated the play throughout the game but they just couldn't finish. They should have won the game today by AT LEAST 2 goals.

Three things piss me off about them (I don't care for the team its just when you predict a team to be in the top 3 you don't want them to have the least amount of points in the league). Firstly, they bypass Modric in the midfield way to often. They seem to prefer to hit the seams in a direct route to the forwards or use Lennon (or Bentley when he's in) on the wings. When Modric was involved, he creates chance after chance (watch the highlights folks). Secondly, their finishing is horrid, though it could be looking up due to the recent signing of Mr. Defoe (who scored the only goal for Spurs today). Defoe and Bent both had chances that I think my mom could have finished. Lastly, Gomez SUCKS, he has hands like cinder blocks. If they want any chance of getting away from the relegation zone they need to go out NOW and pick up a keeper!

Well I'm done ranting, what do you think about this team who had so much potential, but can only produce 8 goals in its 11 home matches in EPL play...??

NSR: Denis Leary Remembers Denis Leary Movies

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In one of many non soccer related posts to come, I bring you Denis Leary commentating on his own movies and it is priceless. I wish they would do this with Samuel L. Jackson because he does like 800 fucking movies a year, many of them which are not very good. He would still make it interesting though cause he's the baddest mofo on earth.

P.S. Don't forget to watch the premiere of Flight of the Conchords tomorrow at 10 on HBO.....and if you dont get cable don't worry, i'm sure it will be available on the web illegally sometime soon after 10:

Bad Refereeing: The Greatest Dive in The Universe

For this weeks Bad Refereeing, I'am proud to bring you what I consider the greatest dive in the universe. This is just too good to not watch over and over again. I understand the team being mad at the ref, but why not try to destroy the linesman as well? Instead of correcting the ref he sat there with his flag up his ass doing nothing.

Ultimately I think it's only fair that this ref and the diving player be drawn and quartered or publicly humiliated in some fashion. I think that's the only way those players will be able to move on from that game without taking their anger out on some random person and killing him.

Is Kaka About to Make it Rain in Manchester?

Please ignore the awful photoshop and listen to this: Man City are offering a shitload of money to secure Kaka's services according to goal.com. The transfer fee is supposed to be in excess of $100 Million, and dude could put pen to paper on a contract worth almost a Million per week. Not per year, per week. That's just re-goddamn-diculuous. That's like goldplated learjets and bathtubs full of cocaine baller status right there. If this deal goes through Kaka will no longer need to play in any games anymore, he can just crush the other team with his wallet and force them to forfeit.

Love or Hate?

Love him or hate him, he's the best player in the world. My personal favorite is the first guy that pulls down the 'Hate' background. The look on his face says it all.

US v. Japan thoughts

Well as you all know I'm sure the US is atop their group with a not so convincing win today. For the first 23 minutes or so the United States dominated the game controlling the ball, creating chances, and leaving Japan only with a counter attack. The domination ended with a cheeky set play from a corner which left a Japanese player all alone at the far post with an empty net..... but he was nice enough to put it wide! For the rest of the half McBride got fouled from behind around 72 times and Adu put numerous shots high and wide. In the second half the US jumped out to a 1-0 lead with a rip from Stuart Holden. The game was back and forth from there on out and ended with a 1-0 scoreline.


For the US here are some Pros and Cons from what I gathered:

First the Cons:

• Our outside backs were thrashed throughout the game getting beaten constantly. Wynne though he played a large part in the goal, was not good enough defending. Orozco did nothing......
  


• Freddy struggled up front I thought. I don't think he had any shots on goal for the duration of the game and he held onto the ball toooooooo long. He needs to be placed in the midfield for Kljestan who as far as I'm concerned was nonexistent all game and place Jozy upfront w/ McBride.
  


• We should have lost the game in a nutshell. The Japanese had much more chances then the US with empty nets and one on one headers that should have been buried. If the Dutch or Nigerians get any of those chances.... we're done.



• We needed to get our subs in earlier then the 75th min. some payers were dragging across the field and we almost paid the ultimate price.
  

Now for the good news.

• Holden and Rogers absolutely dominated the wings at the other end of the pitch. If Rogers keeps playing like he did today I wouldn't be surprised if he gets picked up at the end of the transfer market.



• Edu played great in the back, though towards the end of the game he did get a little chippy and dragged someone down in the box for what should have been a PK.



• We dominated the first 23 min of the game if we could keep that up for a full 90 min we could beat anyone in the tourney. But for now we've got 3 pts and are atop our group, all we need now is a win against either the Netherlands or Nigeria and we're through to the knockout stages.