The Cranky Donkey

The title does not refer to the writer of this blog post after the Kansas City game but is instead a hilarious volkswagon ad featuring our own Steve Ralston. Check it out at the Offside Rules below

The Offside Rules

Javier Morales is a close second for my favorite of these ads!

or on youtube. For some reason the link above doesn't seem to be working for me.

The Cranky Donkey

Douchebag Ref of the Week Award

Yes to our two readers I realize that this is not a weekly feature but with the premier league back on and world cup qualifiers I'm sure that this can be a more frequent article.

So this week's award goes to Jasen Anno, the official for the Kansas City versus New England Revolution game on Saturday.

Congratulations are definitely in order to Mr. Anno. He really worked hard for this honor, not only did he give an absolutely asinine red card to Shalrie Joseph early in the first half, he also missed a very obvious hand-ball by a Kansas City defender in the box when the Revs were just down by one, this was in addition to his inability correctly identify when to call a foul and when to call advantage which is typical of many MLS officials. Hint to Mr. Anno, if the team has to pass the ball back to their defenders to keep possession after a foul that is not as advantageous as giving them a free kick on the 25 yard line.

Although complaining about MLS officials is like complaining about the weather in New England in January I feel this game merits this special mention because impact in totality of the very bad calls by Mr. Anno in reality cost New England the game. Yes, they the Revs need to mark better in the back and yes they need to figure out an offensive stragey that works in Dube and Jankauskas as Dube and Jankauskas and not as Taylor Twellman stand-ins but when you take away a player 20 minutes into the game for a foul that was maybe a yellow and ignore fouls throughout the game then not call an intentional and obvious handball in the box then the Revs not only have to play hard against Kansas City but against the constant free kicks and thuggy fouls and that is not how the game of soccer is supposed to be played.

MLS Goal of The Week

I'll write about the crushing home defeat in a bit but in the meantime both Dube's and Jankauskas's goals are up for consideration for MLS Goal of the week. Let's get something positive out of that game so vote for one of them below. Jankauskas was leading as of the writing of this post.

Goal of the week