Agree. This is going to be true for any box-to-box center mid who doesn't score lot of goals, and doesn't play for one of the big boys. And he's only recently scored his first couple of goals.
Nice goal, but that team goal celebration warrants a visit from Human Resources to discuss inappropriate touching. I mean - excited, sure, but that looks like the old Eric Idle skit.
In case nobody has answered this...if you look at the bottom, it says Euro2012, so it's probably Ukranian, not Russian. Alphabet is obviously Cyrillic.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=852457&sec=england&root=england&cc=5901 Team of the week for the third time this year.
Re: Season's First XI, Dempsey was on the unofficial midterm team of some newspaper (Gazetta?) but I don't think we've had a non-keeper on the full season's first XI.
#4 was hysterical. He stood on top of the pack like he conquered them all, doing the V with his arms and screaming.