Catching Up

Yesterday was football filled, unfortunately it wasn't blogging filled for me. Here's a little recap of the games I took in yesterday.

West Brom 1: 1 Newcastle

This one was really entertaining. West Brom edged ahead in the 39th minute on a goal by Shelton Martis. After a scrum in front of the net during which Newcastle striker Shola Ameobi kicked keeper Mark Harper in the face Martis emerged with a goal. West Brom should have been 2-0 in front early in the 2nd half if not for some excellent work by Newcastle substitute keeper Tim Krul who made several excellent saves throughout the day. In the 55th minute Newcastle equalized after a fantastic build up. Damien Duff finished with class and both sides were set to share the points. After a Gutieriez handball, West Brom was awarded a free kick, which Jonas Olsson headed home to put them 2-1 up. Unfortunately for the Baggies, the goal would be disallowed, assistant referee Simon Beck rightfully flagged Olsson offside, and this one finished up 1-1.

Lightning round now, some quick thoughts on a bunch of games that I caught at least part of.

MLS Columbus 3:0 San Jose

Held at Candlestick Park, over 40,000 will be creditied with seeing this one, while in reality it was probably closer to 10,000. After a dire first half Columbus scored a two goals in quick succession in the 69th and 73rd'. Substitute Adam Moffat put the Crew 3-0 up in the 86th. Other than the goals nothing really notable happened in this one.

Real Salt Lake 1: 0 Seattle

Robbie Findley ran onto a long goal kick from Nick Rimando and rolled past Kasey Keller in the 62nd minute to give RSL a win. Seattle's puzzling run of form continues.

Charlie Davies and Sochaux got off to a good start with a 1-0 win over Auxerre. This morning Kenny Cooper's 1860 Munich also won their opener 2-0. Davies played the last 20 minutes for Sochaux, while Kenny Cooper started and scored 1860s opening goal. Good for him.

At this moment Borussia Moenchengladbach have raced out to a 3-0 lead against Bochum. American Michael Bradley picked up a yellow card in this one, thus validating Andrea Canales squad selection for Mexico- just kidding, that was still absolutely crazy.

Chelsea- Man United is also on FSC as we speak. Nani had a nice strike in the 10th to put United up a goal.

I'll be back later today to wrap up Chelsea-United and preview tomorrow. Plus a feature on Tommy Smyth.