Wednesday, March 18, 2009

And why can't we just have six 30-hour days in a week? I'll tell you why! Stupid sun...

Sorry I haven't been so active for a couple of days. I've been gruesomely busy studying for and writing up my nearly encyclopedic MLS previews for S365. The East edition is up now and the West drops later today.

Meanwhile, Vancouver will get one expansion team for 2011 later today, and Portland has apparently scheduled a press conference for Friday to celebrate being the other choice. As you might imagine, I am not pleased.

Loading my schedule further was the dumb luck to score a pair of tickets to tonight's Ajax v Marseille UEFA Cup decider. Mon ami Pierre wanted to see the match and I was very fortunate to land a couple seats to the sold-out affair yesterday. It should not have been so difficult, but somebody let my supporter's club card expire.

So yes, this will be my first game going as a fan since... (John Dorian face)... well, it's been at least a year. I do have hope that my boys can flip that 2-1 first leg deficit, assuming we can find four defenders that aren't injured, suspended, cup-tied or 17.

No, really. Marseille is going down.

UPDATE: Marseille should have gone down. Thanks a lot, Marco. Your irrational Kenneth Vermeer decision cost Ajax advancement. He is not even close to the keeper Maarten Stekelenburg is... oh, I am so angry right now. I HATE soft goals.

Must. Smash. Something.



- Greg Seltzer

1 comments:

bhamhawker said...

I'm struggling to reconcile the fact that you are both an Ajax fan (which is unbelievably good) and a Mizzou fan (which is unforgivable).

Quick question: Is Gerrie Mühren still the head scout at Ajax?