I haven't seen a match thread for this yet, and as far as I can tell Jozy is available for this match. I'm starting a thread in case he does play today; my apologies if there was an announcement I missed that said he would be unavailable. EDIT: Looks like Jozy is not in the squad today: http://www.premierleague.com/page/MatchPreviews/0,,12306~48124,00.html I'd appreciate it if a moderator could change the thread title accordingly.
Re: Altidore - Hull/Spurs 1/16/10 [R] According to the BBC: "Jozy Altidore has been given compassionate leave to track down relatives caught up in the earthquake that has struck Haiti."
He's in the 18 Hull City: Myhill, Mendy, McShane, Mouyokolo, Gardner, Zayatte, Dawson, Kilbane, Garcia, Marney, Barmby, Geovanni, Boateng, Cairney, Hunt, Ghilas, Altidore, Fagan, Vennegoor of Hesselink, Duke.
Tottenham: Gomes, Corluka, Dawson, Bassong, Bale, Modric, Huddlestone, Palacios, Kranjcar, Defoe, Keane. Subs: Alnwick, Bentley, Jenas, Pavlyuchenko, Crouch, Naughton, Rose. Hull: Myhill, McShane, Zayatte, Gardner, Dawson, Garcia, Boateng, Hunt, Barmby, Geovanni, Fagan. Subs: Duke, Mendy, Kilbane, Mouyokolo, Ghilas, Vennegoor of Hesselink, Cairney.
Easy to say if you don't have relatives abroad. Many Americans do. Is your heart several sizes too small?
Oh great. Here come the BS do-gooders. Unless he is taking time off to fly to Haiti to deliver aid (like Alonzo Mourning), what good can he do from Hull?? Or perhaps he should take the rest of the season off?
Who said anything about the rest of the season? He's missed one game; he may miss a few more. I doubt he can concentrate on soccer right now anyway.
Unbelievable. It's not do-gooding, genius, his family doesn't know if his uncles, aunts and cousins are dead, or maybe lying under rubble mortally wounded without care or water. If he goes he's looking for his frickin family, or it might be that he's in no emotional shape to play.
I am going to assume from all this that there will no useful analysis of the match. Those of you who wish to argue whether a response to relatives in a dire crisis disqualifies you as as an American can go elsewhere to do so.