Rafa complete with ponytail and chest hair
We're currently in the midst of the strange MLS play-off system at the moment. It certainly drags the season out a bit, giving those teams that finished about 20 points behind the team with the most points the chance to keep their season going a bit longer. Last night was the second leg of the New York v LA game. LA were a goal ahead from the first leg in New York a few days earlier. The headlines from that game were more centered on the antics after the final whistle, which can be seen here.
So to summarize, Marquez throws the ball at Landon Donovan and there is a melee resulting in him (Rafa) going to ground in a manner that would suggest he had just been hit by something or someone pretty hard. He wasn't. Unsurprisingly this didn't do his popularity here in the US much good. That he is the second highest paid (supposedly $4.5 million for the season) behind Beckham doesn't help. Then towards the end of September he said:
"I think this is a team game and unfortunately there isn't an equal level between my team mates and I."
Maybe you should have thought about that before you took the cash, eh mate? He could learn a lesson or two from his team mate Luke Rodgers, who, straight out of the third tier of English football, has partnered Thierry Henry to score 11 goals this season. He scored in the 4th minute last night, then nearly got sent off. LA won 3-1 on aggregate and Beckham was pretty good.
After my own soccer efforts this afternoon, one of the nurses that plays suggested that people give blood at the medical center. With nothing much else to do and the chance of a free t-shirt and voucher for the zoo, I went down. Turns out being British, there is a good chance you might have mad cow disease and so they don't really want your blood. I offered to give my gifts back in a kind of awkward way, but they said to keep them. I did, but am going to feel a bit of a fraud wearing my OSU v Michigan Blood Battle t-shirt...
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