Sams Army has been dogging me for two years on my blog so he’s widened the war so to speak by taking it elsewhere. He is convinced my entire mission in life is to see the LA Galaxy fail. I only call it like I see it with the Galaxy anyhow. Anyhow, he and the other person I am convinced is him also need not be responded to.

The side chosen by Fergie looked a 4-4-2 but turned out to be a 4-5-1 was it fergie’s intention to play like they do week in and week out and attack? And was it the dominance of Xavi that made the game what it was? Or were Man united’s purpose to get out of their with that result? Fergie sure made it sound like that.

Nothing new with the analysis of English football Italian football has moved on but i understand the reasoning. It’s the “worst form”.. I do agree that negativity is a problem but the difference between an Italian sides negativity and Man United negativity against Barcelona was that Italian sides with the ball would have kept it and played tempo football unlike Man United’s kick and rush at times (as Cruiff suggested the technical weaknesses of man united defensive players)…

TBH never thought Barcelona (who i implied man for man was my opinion the best football side in the world and got battered for it) would destroy a such inform man united team pure footballing wise. Shame really that Messi couldn’t play out the whole game and deco couldn’t play the final ball with Ferdinand particularly magnificent. Iniesta should play in the middle of the park always…

Ferguson has said he has learned from mistakes such as the 4-0 thumping at Camp Nou back in 94…success in europe requires tactical awareness…the barcelona of few years ago was indeed special in their ability to outplay teams on any pitch.

BTW liverpool and chelsea style of playing has got nothing to do with technical ability (note number of foreigners)…its the managers who employ these negative tactics. As with Man United who are stylish most of the time…

I saw them very clear. They were distracted by incoming EPL bigmatch. EPL is important for Man Utd, but I think so is CL. So did why Sir Alex choose catenaccio to play against Barca. I don’t see any logical reason behind that.

I’ve read Kartik’s comment several times, and I have to admit I have no idea where you get the idea that he wants European soccer to dominate from that.

First, on the footballers in history point… honestly, who cares? So many people have so many different definitions of good/great that any team with enough history could be considered top of that list (and, as further proof of that, I think Germany could be added for consideration as well).

Furthermore, I want to know when this attitude started going around that praising one side equalled bashing the other. Unless it’s a mortal enemies situation (and no matter how much hyperbole you see injected into sport today, IT’S NOT), there can be equally good things to say about all involved.

On Galaxy bashing: the LA Galaxy has spent a lot to raise it’s profile and be this international entity, which is fine. But to be honest, they are bad. They’ve been 5th in the west and out of the playoffs both years under Lalas, and at this early moment in the season, they are in that spot again. Fair or not, having a league’s highest profile team looking bad paints a negative image of a league in general. It can come around, but right now it is a problem the league is going to have to deal with.

On CONCACAF: Honestly, I don’t agree with him on the two better nations point right now, but he is correct in that there is work to do at US Soccer if it wants to stay top tier in CONCACAF. The region is getting better, slowly but surely. The US is going to have to do more to maintain a dominant position. Have they? Not yet in my mind. We’ll see once the heat of World Cup qualifying starts.

I don’t agree with Kartik on several things, but I know this: he has genuine interest in North American soccer. You don’t devote the kind of time and energy or take the heat he has if you weren’t seriously a believer. The only thing exposed around here is that some can’t take criticism, but then again that’s hardly a new development.

You accuse others on the air of being eurosnobs but that comment proves in your own way you are worse than Steven Cohen and those you attack. Perhaps you are the biggest Brit lover, Yank basher of all.