Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Musings Mid Week

It was a dissapointing draw against FC Dallas for me, the consumate Sounder/Football fan, it was extermely disheartening to see all the chances go to waist like they did on Saturday.

United got its title out of the way now they will focus on the Champions League Final and already news that John O'Shea will start from the go. That is not a suprise considering the fact that Neville is hurt and so is Wes Brown.

Germany's title will go down to the last day with Wolfsburg and the Klinsmen-less Bayern Munich. This league has been the most exciting in terms of goal scoring this season. I find it highly entertaining even though the quality of the leage is not up to say the EPL. Their was something like 60 goals scored on the weekend in the Bundesliga, that is impressive and creates a great style of game play for the fans in Germany and around the world.

Barca and Inter sealed their respective league titles so kudos to them. Barca also won the Copa Del Rey in style 4-1 so they will be going for trebile of their own next week.

Onto MLS, a lot of the same I think. The response to the horrible officiating has been disgraceful from MLS. Don Garber is proving to be a "money man" and not a soccer executive. It is not just the Sounders games but these referees are making games into refereeing specticals because they miss the obvious calls and then when they feel it is getting out of hand they call everything and disrupt the flow of the game.

My answer for the problem is to have full time employeed officails, so then they can properly prepare for games and certain teams styles. I also think that maybe keeping a crew of three together might be a good idea. Lets get some continuitiy between the three on field officials.

If the fourth official is different so be it, but at least those three are the same and understand each others tendencies.

All for now.

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