Thank you, Jon Busch, for not falling for the Jose Cancela pk chip twice in a row. I’ve often wondered just how Carlos Ruiz has been able to pull off that stunt more than once. If a guy does that to me...once, there’s no way I let it happen again. I let him beat me every single time with a real shot, but no way he floats another one down the middle. Got to hand it to Cancela, though, it took some major league guts to think he could do it again, in injury time no less, with the result hanging in the balance. http://www.mlsnet.com/MLS/news/mls_news.jsp?ymd=20040608&content_id=5041&vkey=news_mls&fext=.jsp
Yeah, well, Bradley can bite me. He doesn't like the Crew, and we don't like him so we're even. I like it this way. ALong the same lines as the Cancela comment, I thought this was interesting: "I didn't honestly think [Cancela] would do it a second time," Busch said of Cancela's attempt to chip the penalty kick. "[Murphy] told me before the game that that is what he usually does. On the first one, I wanted to fake him. And that one would have been an easier save. On the second one, I wanted to stand up and make him beat me with a good shot. He's a solid, quality player, and who's to say it [wouldn't] have worked a second time. But we deserved a win and we didn't deserve a tie." http://www.boston.com/sports/soccer/articles/2004/06/07/columbus_gets_inside_information/
Good link Bill. Thanks for pointing it out. My favorite line in the article had nothing to do with the Crew. "The closest thing to locks in this league is the Fire at Soldier Field and the Rapids at Invesco." Bradley is the type of guy that nominates Lothar to the All-Star team because he was a "lock".... half a decade ago. FYI, the teams that have fewer home losses than Sh!tcago are LA, KC, COL, NY, SJ, and of course Columbus.