“This just keeps getting better and better”

Tuesday night was fun, I was unable to be at the game at Starfire and was restricted to watching the computer feed. It had everything, drama, good, desperate football with everything on the line.

The Houston goal lived a very charmed life during the last 20 minutes as Seattle threw everything at them time and time again. This time the 89^th minute goal was needed just to send it into extra time, and the rest is history.

Next up is DCU in DC for the trophy, and a place in the lucrative CONCACAF Champions League next year.

Dare I dream of international club football in season two of the current incarnation of the Sounders?

To quote John Motson “This just keeps getting better and better”.

Today the war of words between the finalists escalated, it’s not just between the supporter groups (that’s been on going since the final whistle on Tuesday), but between Adrian Hanauer and Kevin Payne (DCU president).

Hanauer talked to the Olympian newspaper about DC getting the game over Seattle. How the sounders would sell out Quest Field and DC may not even get a 10,000 gate (last year they got 8,200 at RFK for the final).

(http://www.theolympian.com/sports/soundersfc/story/918575.html).

Payne replied in the Washington Post, he called Hanauers’ comments offensive and had a little bash at Seattle and playing on the plastic.

(http://voices.washingtonpost.com/soccerinsider/2009/07/payne_responds_to_sounders.html#more).

My favourite quote: “I just think it is a little out of bounds in your first year to throw stones the way they have.”

It’s 5 weeks until the game and the clubs are trash talking. Forget Portland for another couple of years, this is the big leagues and this is how rivalries are created.