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If ever there was going to be something that was going to get me to support Manchester City, this would be it. If Roland Benedict is starting and daddy Dirk is in the audience smirking and doing Starbuck/Face things, I might just have to be in on Citeh. Since that isn't likely to ever happen, I feel pretty safe in maintaining my distaste for all clubs in the greater Manchester area. In fact, if Citeh continue down the path to being the new Chelsea, they might actually make me support ManYoo in the Manchester Derby. Frightening stuff.
As a follow-up to Jeremy's post on the fact that the best American athletes aren't playing soccer, apparently the former Gillingham and Southend trialist was an exceptional basketball player before deciding to commit to soccer full time. Not exactly a move toward our "best" athletes playing soccer but the fact that there is likely a generation who will have cross-trained between soccer and other, more traditional American sports and will see soccer as a legitimate path to a career in professional sports maybe he can be the, ahem, Face of a new generation of American soccer athletes.
Anyway, we'll get back to the serious posts (or at least I will) in the next couple days as we start our preparations for the 2010-2011 Yahoo! Fantasy season.
Cheers - Neal
1421 BST: The Times is reporting that Manchester City have given a trial to the son of Dirk Benedict, the former star of popular 80s TV show The A-Team. Roland Benedict, 20, whose father played Face in the show, has been training with City's development squad. I pity the fool.
If ever there was going to be something that was going to get me to support Manchester City, this would be it. If Roland Benedict is starting and daddy Dirk is in the audience smirking and doing Starbuck/Face things, I might just have to be in on Citeh. Since that isn't likely to ever happen, I feel pretty safe in maintaining my distaste for all clubs in the greater Manchester area. In fact, if Citeh continue down the path to being the new Chelsea, they might actually make me support ManYoo in the Manchester Derby. Frightening stuff.As a follow-up to Jeremy's post on the fact that the best American athletes aren't playing soccer, apparently the former Gillingham and Southend trialist was an exceptional basketball player before deciding to commit to soccer full time. Not exactly a move toward our "best" athletes playing soccer but the fact that there is likely a generation who will have cross-trained between soccer and other, more traditional American sports and will see soccer as a legitimate path to a career in professional sports maybe he can be the, ahem, Face of a new generation of American soccer athletes.
Anyway, we'll get back to the serious posts (or at least I will) in the next couple days as we start our preparations for the 2010-2011 Yahoo! Fantasy season.
Cheers - Neal
Face2 if he (miraculously) makes it onto the Citeh A-team?
ReplyDeleteBut seriously, signing David Silva to join the laundry list of other A-Team caliber players has got to put Citeh in the top 4... right?
ReplyDeleteStarbuck Jr!
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