United 1, Kansas City 0

Everyone commented they'd never seen such a small crowd.

I turned to Landru

and Ilse and said, these are games that we should receive a thank you for, some acknowledgment by United, who can track our attendance by the scanned barcode on our season tickets.

I get home after the game, open up my gmail, and United sent me this email:

To our loyal and supportive Full Season ticket holders,

As a token of our appreciation for your attendance and thank you for your patience through the uncertainties of our Special Event tickets for the 2009 season, we have decided to make seating for the next two home CONCACAF Champions League matches on September 24^th vs. CD Marathon of Honduras and September 30^th vs. San Juan Jabloteh of Trinidad & Tobago complimentary for all Full Season ticket holders.   These games were not included in the original 20 game season ticket plan, but each will now be available to you in your same or similar seating at no charge *.   

Thank you. Very much. Cause, we'd have bought tickets, and United didn't need to do this. I'm not even going to be cynical about this.

Oh, the game:

Thank you for sucking, Davy Arnaud, who fredded three sure goals with fredlike incompetence.

To be honest, I thought the chance for complete meltdown (0-5 at half, United players screaming at and smacking each other, an old fart taking a nasty red and flipping off the fans on the way off the field) was decent, and had Arnaud's first fredding gone in at 1:10, the kaboom might have kaboomed.

Some games are won by winning, other games won by the other team losing, and this was the latter. United did nothing to increase my confidence they'll make the stupid-ass playoffs other than Kansas City handed United three undeserved points. The table doesn't differentiate between deserved and undeserved points.

Fire Tom Soehn and his bunkering ass. And if you're gonna bunker, you bring Fred in for defense? Ass.

Here's Goff's player ratings:

Wicks 7; Namoff 7, James 5, McTavish 5, Wallace 6; Pontius 6, Simms 6, Gomez 6, Quaranta 4; Moreno 6.5, Emilio 6. Subs: Olsen 7, John 6, Fred 5.

Quaranta 4? Tino Quaranta was the best player on the field. If Tino plays a ball into open space and fracking Devon McTavish runs in the wrong direction or Namoff takes a circular rather than straight route to the space, how is that on Tino Quaranta. Quaranta and Pontius are the only two United players who have natural soccer intelligence and the youth and physical skills to match. The other young aren't that good, the old farts with the intelligence no longer have the physical skills.

Yowza, here's anger. Curmudgeon lives up to his name. Shatz is calmer.

More later. Or not.

UPDATE! Holy Fuck. And Fuck-Me-Jig, yo.