Sink the pirate's ship, Roy

Here is the real reason the USMNT breezed past Trinidad & Tobago so comfortably on Wednesday. But T&T's indoor kickabout brought back fond memories of me taking out different parts of my parents' living room as a boy with my regulation weight ball.

*Still with T&T, the ticket-scalping and embezzling CONCACAF President & FIFA Vice-President Jack Warner might think he is untouchable despite his numerous outrages - given chapter and verse by investigative journalist Andrew Jennings, at whom Warner spat on camera in 2006 during a BBC documentary on FIFA corruption.

This time, the real 'Pirate of the Caribbean' has incurred the wrath of Irish firebrand Roy Keane, one fellow you don't mess with! After Warner sent the media a FIFA-headed letter raging at the Sunderland boss' refusal to release an unfit 36-year old Dwight Yorke for international duty, Keane said, "I spoke to Jack Warner on Wednesday and told him what I thought about him and where he should go. The man's a clown and a disgrace...He's obviously more interested in power and making a name for himself, but he's a clown...Basically, if he's Vice-President of FIFA, God help us all."

I have a lot of time for Sunil Gulati and I think he is steering the US Soccer ship as best he can in the potentially treacherous waters of FIFA, playing a shrewd game of realpolitik to further the interests of American soccer. He must know like we all do that Warner is a crook, but until the law catches up with his CONCACAF boss, Gulati must play the diplomat. That said, the fact an obviously seriously corrupt man still wields so much power reflects badly on all those good men who continue to do and say nothing.

Among Jennings' revelations of Warner's misrule is the news that he favors Mexico over the US as a 2018 World Cup host, and that he rushed to sell 45,000 tickets for the crunch T&T v USA game in 1989 - the one when Paul Caligiuri's 'shot heard around the world' catapulted US Soccer back into Italia '90 - the only problem was the stadium's capacity was less than 29,000...

-Sean O'Conor