First!

hey, that Beckham goal is almost as good as Guevara's!

mmm...becks to giggsy...the stuff limey dreams were made of.

Chubby Striker's Scoring Drought Continues . . .

Sure he was playing for ManU., but he was dreaming of MLS.

I don't get the whole "First" thing on the comments...I have seen it done on other blog sites and see that it has come over to this one. Is it some kind of joke or sign of "cool factor" thing?

I love it. It's like Old Guy Radio, or Classic Rock. They sure knew how to play in Olden Tymes, didn't they?

vote for Gallardo coz the legit should win.
http://dcunited.mlsnet.com/sierra/sierra_mist.html

hahahaha... that story about ronaldo cracked me up. Must have been quite the surprised look on his face!

That Beckman kid looks pretty good. Steve, you should do an update on him. Kind of a "where are they now" kind of thing....

why is bruce arena doing the color commentary on the KC sports channel? (you can hear him on the Guevara goal of the week nominee)

Wow, guess that whole Bend it Like Beckham thing isn't a passing phase. That free kick was masterful.

As for Ronaldo, I wonder if he reacted like this (start it at 2:10):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_v15nCtDnM

So help me Canada - I'll purposefully vote for All-Stars not on TFC if Gallardo doesn't win this week.

All-in-all I'm done with fan votes. The mob is not right.

If democracy has taught us anything, it's that the masses are asses. The public should no say on anything, from politics to music to goal of the week. These things should be curated by experts.

nice knee slide/train off the tracks celebration after his beckham's free kick. im not saying hes not talented.. hes just going to have to prove he can do better before he makes it in this so called Major League of Soccers

Ronaldo took THREE prostitutes back?!

Maybe he's in better shape than we thought.....

While Man. United supporters will be pacing back and forth in anxiety later today, Man. City supporters will be fuming that Sven will be given the sack after this season; disgraceful treatment of a manager that has turned them around from relegation candidates to being in europe next season.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/man_city/7370698.stm

beckham-still can put the ball wherever he wants!
ronaldo-rehab must be going pretty good!

i hope the man u barca game is better than the 1st leg. any predictions?????

So I've voted for Gallardo 3 times over the past day or so. Am I to understand that no one in this highly educated, tech-savvy region can build a voting bot? Sure, we'd probably get caught, but then they'd probably change the way the voting was set up so that no one, including our Canuck compatriots, would be able to vote multiple times.

Tell your co-workers that there's cake in the conference room. When they go to check it out, vote for Gallardo's goal from their workstations.

What da heck is a "keepie-uppie," anyway? :-)

keepie-uppie is juggling

Wow, Ronaldo has fallen pretty far lately. I'm surprised that any soccer superstar stays sane these days. The Brazilians seem to be having a particularly hard time these days (Kaka excluded, as far as I know).

Thaksin Shinatwatra is a corrupt tyrant who stole a large chunk of his fortune from the Thai people. Sven's big mistake was getting in bed with Thaksin in the first place.

some sober commentary on Ronaldo

http://www.thespoiler.co.uk/index.php/2008/04/29/ronaldo-caught-with-transvestite-prostitutes

Posted by: WNT fan | April 29, 2008 8:32 AM

Matt, rules were 10 votes per day per IP. Not sure what they are this year.

Tell your co-workers that there's cake in the conference room. When they go to check it out, vote for Gallardo's goal from their workstations.

Posted by: I-270, Exit 1 | April 29, 2008 11:03 AM
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Wait, do they count unique IP addresses for each vote? I didn't see any rules. Well, I'll be sure to vote when I get home tonight...

Poor Tino...he has only 1% of the vote.

Was it two or three transvestite prostitutes? I'm pretty sure that detail is what determines his future and public perception.

IP... bot... keepie-uppie.

I don't know what you people are talking about.

Ah, but "cake in the conference room" I get.

Not on this topic, but some interesting thoughts from Ruud Gullit on the "professionalism of the MLS" in today's LA Times.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/soccer/la-spw-soccer29apr29,1,6334203.story

Ronaldo was going to pay $600...he picked up one of them at the club, and s/he called for two more to come on over...there's a picture of one of them on marca.com. Yikes.

""Wow, guess that whole Bend it Like Beckham thing isn't a passing phase. That free kick was masterful.""

Yes, but Goldenball's post goal celebration was horrendous. He slides, then falls, then rolls like a tumbleweed.

You can't win the Champions League with celebrations like that.

Re: Ronaldo, oh my lord . . .

""He just wanted to have fun and meet some other people outside his usual environment,' Nogueira said. 'There is no crime at all.'""

I'm all for breaking down barriers, meeting people from other cultures and backgrounds but . . . .

Not on this topic, but some interesting thoughts from Ruud Gullit on the "professionalism of the MLS" in today's LA Times.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/soccer/la-spw-soccer29apr29,1,6334203.story

Posted by: Ruthie | April 29, 2008 11:56 AM

The "professionalism of the MLS" should have been changed to the "competence of Lalas" I don't think (hope) that other teams in MLS are bringing random people on the field to play...although if DCU is, please call!

Guevara: 45%
Gallardo: 35%

C'mon DCU fans, step it up! Show TFC how it's done...

Ok here's the deal on voting. They must not record multiple votes from the same IP or they must have a way to only record every so often. You can install a Firefox extension called imacros that will load the page and vote. You can loop this macro as many times as you like. You can also set the delay. I read on the BS thread to vote every 6 sec. I setup the macro and looped it 500 times at slow speed, approx 8 secs. It did nothing to the votes.

That Ronaldo penalty was crap.

re: voting. I have done my share. Remember folks - even though we have a larger fans not all of them, I don't hink, visit soccer insider or bothered to vote. Unlike, TFC they are all nuts and every body votes...but

Did some crazed TFC fan just knock off our colleague, td, in the middle of typing?

Cultured indeed, Mr. Goff. That's the country of my origin. Thanks for the heads up.

@ JonInVB

We all strive to be members of the FPC (first post club) it's a very prestegious honor. Members get a life sized Goff Wallbanger - cut live from the action of him creating an SI thread. Don't hate.

@TFC fans

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? FOR ONCE SHOW SOME CLASS!

That incident in Rio may give Ray Davies material for a song.

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