The most boring final in sports history. I hear doctors now have insomnia patients watch that as a cure.
But no one really remembers or cares how boring of a game it was. What they all remember and care about is how Seattle won the trophy.
Will they, though? Outside of Seattle fans, no one cares about that cup same as how no one cares about the 2010 Rapids. They were a boring team that put their opponent to sleep on the field. Winning a trophy is an accomplishment, but in terms of entertainment value, well, Seattle does not deliver there, and that team will be completely forgotten aside from a bullet point that they won.
Hey, why so tough on Wayne Rooney? He’s been an exemplary athlete for half a season. How many players can turn around a last place team, literally all by themselves? There will never be another assist like the hard run, tackle, and cross he made for Luciano Acosta to head. I thought he’d be a big minus, but he and Zlatan elevated MLS on the global stage this season. And Rooney’s hair plugs are amazing!
Entertaining finals in MLS? As a rule most finals are boring to begin with. I don’t recall many exciting ones. RSL beating the Gals on pk’s and I thiink that was when the lights kept going out. In 96 or 97 I forget when, I recall DCU winning a cup in a torrential downpour. The Chicago Fire’s 98 trophy was fairly boring and DCU in 04 didn’t particularly stand out. I was in Europe so I missed the Quakes cups but I remember the Quakes who became the Dynamo team winning in 06 & 07. Those games were somewhat exciting but only because they were our team and I was into it.. I don’t remember too many mls cup finals that were enteraraining though and in this league, you are really only judged and measured by your MLS Cup wins.
All this stuff with Skinhead Nazi fans at NYCFC and LAFC fans throwing stuff at players and throwing drinks in the air, and p-chants— it’s all such anti-social behavior. And people complain about take a knee...
They are pardoned because they are NY & LA fans! Didn’t you know that Don Baby Gerber let’s them do whatever they want!
In what can only be described as karma, Atlanta just had a perfectly good goal reversed via VAR, in their playoff game vs NY
possibly. I’m not sold on the merits of VAR. refs obviously make mistakes occasionally but I’d rather live with that than VAR at this point.
I watched several Premier League games this weekend where the refs blew several calls. Two stone-cold penalties, (one which should have included a red card for intentional handball) were not called. Liverpool had a perfectly good goal called back for offside. Would have been an easy VAR overturn.
There is no offside on a corner kick. Per IFAB Law 11: "There is no offside offence if a player receives the ball directly from: a goal kick a throw-in a corner kick" I didn't see the game (I am an Earthquakes fan, but manifestly NOT an MLS fan, so when the Quakes' season is done, so am I), but may I assume that the offside call was on a subsequent play by the attacking team immediately after the corner?
I think it was called after a corner. looked like a fine goal to me. it's also possible that VAR got it right. I saw that handball Earthshaker referred to as well, definitely intentional, definitely should've been a PK and ref missed it. that's part of the human error factor that goes into soccer, sometimes calls work against you, sometimes they go in your favor, sometimes blown calls are absolute game changers, I'd still rather have the refs on the making the calls using their own eyeballs. the whole VAR process is too disruptive to the flow of the game, for me.
Almiron is the one who took the corner. He played it short to a teammate who was near the touch line, that player played it to Almiron before he could get back on side. What I did not like about the whole incident was that the AR did not flag it. The ball was then sent to the top of the box by Almiron, then played in toward the endline before being sent back across the box to Almiron to score. Sean Johnson immediately protested, so from his position in goal probably had a good view of the offside that the AR missed.
If the AR was opposite the CK (i.e. on the other sideline) it's not surprising he wasn't able to see the offside, since in those instances, there are not infrequently somewhere around 21 bodies between him and the incident!
Reminds me of a nearby Quetzalcoatl... Though, this one, in Mexico City (below), makes me laugh a little less at the one in San Jose. I thought the Artist was just making that version up to trigger a response from people he had to work with in San Jose, but I guess he wasn't the first one to make the feathered serpent look like a dung pile.