Sunday, August 06, 2006

Get off it, Eric Wynalda!

Did you happen to see the MLS All-Stars take on EPL powerhouse (and yours truly's fav team) Chelsea??

Nice little "friendly" match, a simple preseason warm-up for our friends from across the big pond.

But, blasted Eric Wynalda couldn't keep talking about how the MLS players were really stepping up against the $200 million team, how you'd expect a lot more from a $200 million team, how even though it's preseason they should have scored a goal, BLAH BLAH BLAH! He couldn't let go of the fact that Chelsea is good, the players cost a lot of money, and they might not have been in top form.

Eric- get off it! They've been practicing as a team for a week. ONE WEEK! The MLS stars are in the middle of their season, fully fit, half the team was from DC United, which has lost something like two (!!) games all year (out of 22 played)!!

You think the Chelsea guys are going to approach this like a ManU match, or Liverpool, Arsenal, etc.???

It's like watching the Redskins scrimmage the Ravens- are we going to criticize either team for playing poorly and mainly with backups??

I guess I wouldn't have minded him bringing it up once or twice, but that was the theme of the commentary, and it really got old.

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