GOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAL

[usagullmichigan]

And everbody thinks MLS is crap

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[Dutchgull]

Cracking effort !!

[happytorq]

Finally, somebody posts about MLS who isn't me4. Funnily enough, I was going to post this as well. Actually, there were a lot of great goals this weekend - Dallas player Brek Shea pciked the ball up in the centre (center, heh) circle, took it past 4 players and finished well.

usagullmichigan - do you watch it a lot? it really is great fun- not the 'best' league but given that La Liga and Premiership are usually really bloody boring, this a Good Thing.

Edit - forgot to add this... Eric Hassli is tremendous to watch, mainly because you don't know what's going to happen. Vancouver have played 13 games. He's scored 6 (maybe 7, don't remember without checking) and also been sent off 3 times. The best one was when he came on at half time, got booked after 2 minutes, scored, took off his shirt - revealing an identical short underneath - got booked again, and was sent off. He was trying to convince the ref he hadn't taken his short off.....

[bc-gull]

Sign him up, Sign him up, Sign him up!!!

Take a bow son :P

[Colorado Gull]

Unbelievable Tekkers!!

[cambgull]

Cracking goal! I hear he's Martin Ling's brother's, cousin's, sister's, best friend's acquintance. We'll see him in August!

[happytorq]

Cracking goal! I hear he's Martin Ling's brother's, cousin's, sister's, best friend's acquintance. We'll see him in August!

If only that were true...We couldn't afford him; he's on $900,000 a year. (helpfully, the MLS Players' Union publishes the salaries of the players). Chris Birchall - ex of Port Vale, Brighton and Coventry, who scored his first MLS goal last weekend, gets $157,000. So, about £2000 a week based on current exchange rates..

[usagullmichigan]

Finally, somebody posts about MLS who isn't me4. Funnily enough, I was going to post this as well. Actually, there were a lot of great goals this weekend - Dallas player Brek Shea pciked the ball up in the centre (center, heh) circle, took it past 4 players and finished well.

usagullmichigan - do you watch it a lot? it really is great fun- not the 'best' league but given that La Liga and Premiership are usually really bloody boring, this a Good Thing.

Edit - forgot to add this... Eric Hassli is tremendous to watch, mainly because you don't know what's going to happen. Vancouver have played 13 games. He's scored 6 (maybe 7, don't remember without checking) and also been sent off 3 times. The best one was when he came on at half time, got booked after 2 minutes, scored, took off his shirt - revealing an identical short underneath - got booked again, and was sent off. He was trying to convince the ref he hadn't taken his short off.....

I watch it quite alot. Its getting alot better. That standard is getting better every year. I do enjoy it.

[happytorq]

I watch it quite alot. Its getting alot better. That standard is getting better every year. I do enjoy it.

Yep, and to Fox Soccer coverage has got markedly better recently. If they could just take John Harkes' microphone away from him I think we'd be onto a winner.

[Scott Brehaut]

I cant believe Kasey Keller is still playing - he must be as old as Dave now, and that is bloody old!!

[happytorq]

I cant believe Kasey Keller is still playing - he must be as old as Dave now, and that is bloody old!!

He says he's retiring after this season.

[usagullmichigan]

Yep, and to Fox Soccer coverage has got markedly better recently. If they could just take John Harkes' microphone away from him I think we'd be onto a winner.

I don't have fox

[ferrarilover]

He says he's retiring after this season.

Dave?

[happytorq]

Dave?

hah! that actually made be lol.

usagullmichigan - FSC is great, dunno how I'd manage without it. I think it costs me $5 a month as part of a Sports package. I also have Fox Soccer Plus, although I'm cancelling that at the weekend - this was the channel that had the playoff finals on. (I'd quite like my money back, now I come to think of it.)

I'm pretty sure FSC had to up their production values - really, it was awful before - because MLS had made noises about maybe giving the TV rights to Versus, who also do the ice hockey.

[ferrarilover]

Somewhat unrelated, but have our Yanks seen any of the ESPN 30 for 30 season?

I saw the Michael Jordan one the other night and it was really good.

Matt.