The usual quality analysis of Jamie Trecker... filled with inaccuracies, in addition to his negative reporting. http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news?slug=usaven&prov=st&type=lgns It was an unspectacular game, but when he can't get details like descriptions of the goals accurately, you know he's trying to be an a**hole. Stewart took the free kick - not Convey. McBride took the first shot - not Bocanegra. Bocanegra took the second shot - not McBride. Kirovski scored against Haiti in the 2000 Gold Cup. If you can't look this up in your media guide, you're just being lazy. It was far more than 35 yards. Midfield is at least 50 yards away and Donovan took control of the ball before crossing midfield.
He's just upset because MLS hasn't folded as he predicted over and over and over - until he finally realized that maybe... just perhaps... he might be a teensy-bit wrong. Actually he's never wrong - he thought he was once, but it turned out to be a mistake... Linda Manchester United 3 Fulham 0 - I said, I don't wanna talk about it!
i seriously doubt he even watched the game. no joke. that sounds like a second-hand account, instead of something that a "soccer writer" watched... and notice the quotations.
As much as I dislike Trecker, I doubt that this is true. He was probably at the game (remember that Grant Wahl article that mentioned the insane number of USMNT matches guys like the Treckers and Wagman have attended?) and wrote his report without having watched the match on tape.
If it's Trecker, I just don't even bother reading it any more. It's not like he's had anything to add in the past- He just inaccurately restates what you can find elsewhere. It amazes me that he gets paid to do this.
thanks for the 'brief' thread i've stopped reading anything written by this verbal diahria spouting neanerthal since 1996 maybe you should too thanks for listening
"vintage Donovan"? He's 20 years old. Now if McBride headed in a goal, that would be vintage McBride. Or when Kirovski fired that one shot over the cross bar, that was vintage Kirovski.
I really miss Jerry's stuff, but I haven't hardly read anything by #2. That's one apple that fell WAY off the tree.
Actually, when he said "vintage Donovan" all that came to mind was Donovan coming up short versus Kahn over and over again at the WC. If the first goal would have happened as he reported, the play would have in fact been onside rather than a blown offside call.
Well, I gotta say, he took the ball at midfield (55 yards out) and shot from about 12 yards out. 55-12 = 43. So, not an unforgiveable sin in and of itself.