Tuesday, November 14, 2006
field of screams
and so the Revs play in another dour MLS final and discover a new way to lose the championship match. Oh the irony. In the previous two loses, the Revs were the better team in both overtimes, only to be hit on the counter attack and surrender a sudden death goal. And this year, when they are the team which manages to score first in overtime? Well the rule has been changed so that the overtime period lasts the entire 30 minutes regardless of any goals scored. No sudden death means that Houston has 7 minutes to tie the match and force penalties. Of course, Houston needed fewer than 20 seconds after the ensuing kickoff to tie the game. And the injured Ralston, and an inexplicably absent Clint Dempsey meant that defender Jay Heaps stepped up to take the 5th and deciding penalty. The result was inevitable.
And just to have something to look forward to regarding next season, Gillette stadium is installing field turf. How perfectly awful. We'll have bright and clear football lines on the field year round now as well as an unnatural surface where the ball rolls faster and bounces differently than natural grass. If you felt that MLS games had a tendancy to be too athletic and less artistic than a soccer match should be, well.....this isn't going to help any.
This is my 100th post. w00t!
and so the Revs play in another dour MLS final and discover a new way to lose the championship match. Oh the irony. In the previous two loses, the Revs were the better team in both overtimes, only to be hit on the counter attack and surrender a sudden death goal. And this year, when they are the team which manages to score first in overtime? Well the rule has been changed so that the overtime period lasts the entire 30 minutes regardless of any goals scored. No sudden death means that Houston has 7 minutes to tie the match and force penalties. Of course, Houston needed fewer than 20 seconds after the ensuing kickoff to tie the game. And the injured Ralston, and an inexplicably absent Clint Dempsey meant that defender Jay Heaps stepped up to take the 5th and deciding penalty. The result was inevitable.
And just to have something to look forward to regarding next season, Gillette stadium is installing field turf. How perfectly awful. We'll have bright and clear football lines on the field year round now as well as an unnatural surface where the ball rolls faster and bounces differently than natural grass. If you felt that MLS games had a tendancy to be too athletic and less artistic than a soccer match should be, well.....this isn't going to help any.
This is my 100th post. w00t!
