A comment I posted over at "Oh, You Beauty!" -- the best Liverpool blog around:

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Nate,

Like you, I'm a Liverpool/USMNT man -- but I'm definitely completely and totally loyal to the USMNT. Or at least I want to be, but that's been increasingly hard given Bradley's use of Wynne, Beasley, and Kljestan, his refusal to use Adu and Torres, and other puzzling decisions.

It's tough to watch a manager with young technical talent (Adu, Torres, Feilhaber, the ignored Szetela) largely confine them to the bench, in favor of more 'athletic' but unskilled players. Bradley's the sort of guy who'd keep Xavi and Iniesta on the bench because they lack 'physical presence' or some such codeword for imagined physical deficiencies. I'm only kind of kidding. Which is frightening.

As you wrote at the time, Adu did quite well against Spain (and against Argentina, and against Pato's young Brazilians in the u20 07 WC), and I'm confident he would tomorrow. The odds that Adu will play at all Wednesday: 0. Odds that stone-footed Kljestan will play: 50%. Odds that I will lose my mind if Kljestan comes on: 100%.

So I always want the US to do well, but the Egypt win lets Bradley keep his job. Which means, unless we get historically humiliated by Spain (and we won't), next summer we're going three and out. Which will kill me -- unless Pool wins the Premiership and Gerrard wins World Player of the Year. Then maybe I'll survive. But watching the US crash and burn will still really, really hurt.

Also -- absolutely love your site. I check it routinely.

FF
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La Furia Roja await.

FF