Do you know anything about CONCACAF to make such a statement. Do you base all your assumptions about national team on what clubs players are with and who has reputations? If so, England and Argentina would meet in every World Cup final.

Guatemala is a tough place to play. I’d love to see England’s pampered players go down there and try and play. And besides it can be strongly argued Guatemala’s domestic league or at least the top two teams are better than the US domestic league. So in fact this was an amazing result for the US.

I’m not sure what you are reading that says the US has “good players.” I’ve stated time and time again that the US has been shrewed in its organization and benefited from a very good FA (or SF as it’s known here)because if you compare top talent in CONCACAF the US is not even one of the best countries, but yet consistently seems to win matches and trophies within the region. That’s due to tactics, FA setup and simple grit. That’s how you win matches. The style points do not count and three points on the road in a place where most CONCACAF and I dare say non CONCACAF countries would struggle does not need an apology.

Guatamala could not even compare with the U.S. in players it has abroad, well not anymore, considering that nobody in the English Premier League is hiring Ameri-lame players. Fulham, which might as well have been the U.S. National Team itself with all the American players it had to no avail, finally woke up.

It’s a friendly, why not throw Downing and Bentley out on the wings and see what happens? Let them knock crosses into Heskey.

Hopefully Capello begins to assert his authority on the squad and stops picking the reputation players and picks people based on form and what’s needed for the system(s) he decides to go with. I say systems as you can’t limit yourself to simply one team shape and need a certain amount of flexibility to change a game.

The US win was a historic breakthrough, and Mexico is still rubbish (despite the win by El Tri which had me feeling blue for much of last night.) Rejoice!

The England game was meaningless. The most obvious thing to me which Michael hit on in his post game blog is how bad England’s flank play is. I know people will get mad here but I believe England has more talent than anyone but the failure to play on proper pitches in the PL, ie 80 x 120 pitches which are rare in English Football is a big big big part of the problem. We’ve had that problem also but now we’re building wider pitches in the US so now our problems occur when we play on a congested, narrow field like we did in Barbados or even last night.