Tim Howard is only fooling himself
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by Foolsgold
First, before all you muppets and zombies berate me for supposedly slagging off on one of your beloved heroes, know this. I think Tim Howard is a good keeper and easily the best the US has right now. US fans need to grow some balls, skin, and/or a brain and lose the Third Reich attitude that if you are critical, you are not a true fan and should be taken out back and shot. If anything, the opposite is true and probably should be done. Sometimes players need tough love to face reality and giving them unconditional adulation only makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside, but does nothing for their improvement. Just because you don't want what's best for your country's national team, doesn't mean I don't. So go praise a baby for taking a shit, I'm talking about grown men here.
Ah, that felt good. Moving along, I just read a post about a discussion that ESPN's Ives Galarcep had with our number one, Tim Howard, over at his blog, Soccer by Ives, and can't believe how unbelievably thoughtless some of things are that Howard says in regards to Carlos Bocanegra and Oguchi Onyewu. I'm sorry to say, but Howard just doesn't get it.
He claims that people who are slagging off on Gooch and Bocanegra would do the same if it was Demerit and Conrad or Parkhurst and Boswell or even Saint Peter and Jesus of Nazareth. Oh really? So you think making mistake after mistake after mistake warrants you a starting position on our country's national team just because 'Hey, no one else is much better' or 'They would all do the same thing because they are all headless chickens'? You're out of your f**king mind. Bocanegra and Gooch are shit because they are undisciplined and play as if they have the football IQ of a twelve-year-old. Most the time it appears they are trying to do too much and are not sure what the role of a centre back is. Maybe you're right, Howard, maybe we shouldn't blame them, maybe we need coaches that can actually tell them what they are responsible for on the field. Even so, they've been given their chances and they've shown that they are crap. Give someone else a shot.
My favorite part is when he brings up how the dynamic defensive dumbass duo allowed only four goals over seven games from the China game to the Mexico Gold Cup final. Ha ha ha ha! Is he f**king serious?! Does he realize that the quality of those opponents overall was much lower than the last five matches the squad has played? Is he trying to pull a fast one here and say that China, Guatemala, Trinidad & Tobago, El Salvador, Panama, Canada, and Mexico are on the same level as Argentina, Paraguay, Colombia, Sweden, and Brazil? That's just borderline mental. Not only that, but all of those first seven fixtures were played in the warm womb of the United States. Rubbish.
Howard then goes on to spin the living shit out of something that frankly wouldn't keep the attention of a glossy-eyed cheerleader if it was the school-hero quarterback that she wanted to bang that night. You want positive reinforcement? Okay, good job in taking a so-called 'B squad' to Copa. Way to really give other players a chance to play and then immediately take that opportunity away once they return. What was the point of that again? Rubbish. If anything we took a lesser squad so we could use that excuse when we got killed. Don't fool yourself, an 'A squad' wouldn't have done much better.
So let's all hold the US players in our arms and stroke their hair and tell them it's not their fault. If we're going to treat every match and every mistake like it's spilled milk, the team will never improve. Grow some balls.
Originally posted here
