Randomosity

Good game, US, good game. It was nice to see the guys get out there and realize that maybe their strengths aren't crossing the ball into the box but instead quick passes in tight space on the ground. It's beginning to look like Bradley's and Nowak's plan is starting to come together.

PS After you click the linky to ESPN's story, figure out what I don't like about their soccer coverage.

In other news, the US Open Cup! Yeah, there were some games played. I failed to mention here yesterday that you could watch some of the games via a freebie from USLlive.com last night. However, I imagine they will be doing something similar for the next round. Anyway, the USL teams are starting to get involved so we get our first chance to see some upsets now... right Cincinnati?

Over in England, tribalfootball, whom I trust about as far as one could chuck an "interweb", are reporting that Blackburn Rovers' John Williams has said there has been some interest from a foreign consortium to buy the club. The wonderful "journalists" over at tribal took that to mean that obviously this consortium is made up of Premiership hungry Americans. There's nothing yet to corroborate it yet, but we shall see.

Meanwhile, West Ham are supposedly chasing Darren Bent with renewed vigor with an 18 million GBP fee being bandied about once again with 80k/week wages being offered. Of course, this is from the Mirror so it's about as useful as newspaper from the bottom of an overzealous bird's cage. Other rumors closer to WHU are saying the fee would be around 10 million and include sending someone among Carlton Cole, Marlon Harewood and/or Hayden Mullins the other way. So, really, who knows?

Also, the longstanding takeover at Manchester City seems to be close to an end, just not the kind of end most on the blue side of the city thought they'd get.