Manchester United squad wallpaper

Here is the 2007-2008 squad, featuring all your old favorites.

Back row: Dong Fangzhou, Nemanja Vidic, John O'Shea, Phil Bardsely, Rio Ferdinand, ?, Michael Carrick, Darren Fletcher, Louis Saha, Mikael Silvestre.

Third row: Wes brown, Ben Foster, Edwin Van Der Sar, Tomasz Kusczak, ?, ?

Second row: Anderson, Nani, ?, ?, Ole Solskjaer, Chris Eagles

First row: Carlos Tevez, Ji-sung Park, Owen Hargreaves, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville, Wayne Rooney, ?, Patrice Evra, Paul Scholes.

LA Galaxy lose to CD Pachuca in Super-liga Final

After double overtime and double penalties, the Galaxy lost to top Mexican side Pachuca last night. It was one of those nights where the Galaxy fell asleep in the first half, scored and own-goal ("auto-gol") and suffered the terribly shitty blow of David Beckham spraining his knee before halftime.

In the second half, the Galaxy came alive and possession was probably around 75%-25%
with Pachuca struggling to get out of their own half. Late on, Chris Klein scored an absolute stunner with an overhead bicycle kick delivered with pace and fury.

From there, the two sides endured a rather tired and lackluster additional 30 minutes before finally going to penalties. Each keeper made one save in the first 5 kicks, leading to a sudden-death round of penalty kicks. The Pachuca player netted, putting a lot of pressure on the Galaxy's stalwart defender Abel Xavier (of the fluffy white afro), who missed his shot high and wide. To be fair, PKs are never easy and he had just run his ass off for two solid hours.

It's more than a shame because this might have been the Galaxy's only chance at silverware this season, with the early season losses taking their toll. What do you expect, though, when your side's best striker (Donovan) and best defenders (Albright) are away for a month at international duty? We lost games then and never made them up.

For my money, Edson Buddle needs to go take some remedial 1 v 1 classes and learn how to take players on. Absolutely no quality in the final third without Becks. Anyway, a disappointing night for all, including the measly 12,500 people lucky enough to get tickets.

That's right, the 27,000 capacity Home Depot Center was limited to 12,500 tickets for this match and called it a "sell out." Wtf? The other weird thing is we had 4 subs, and you're only allowed 3. Was there some special arrangement made that if there was an "injury" (obviously not thinking of Beck's bad ankle...) they could replace that player and not use up one of the 3 subs?

Pointless Waste of Timer Done Good

David Wong, creator of the comedy site Pointless Waste Of Time, has taken a new job as assistant manager of Cracked.com and so has left his comedy ghetto behind. Cracked is definitely not as rad as PWoT, kind of like Coldplay is to Radiohead, but maybe Wong's new job will improve it. Congratulations to Wong, he's a really funny fucker. When you have a few minutes downtime, dig through PWoT, especially look for his Guide to Suicide, 50 Reasons LOTR Sucks, and an Open Letter To Videogame Designers.

Japlantis Found

You heard "Japlantis" here first, by the way. Giant underwater ruins off the coast of Japan have led a researcher to theorize they are the remains of an Atlantis-like civilization. Read about it here, from Reuters.

This is an area/topic covered in depth (guffaw!) already by Graham Hancock in his book "Underworld." Check out Hancock's articles on it here.

Report On Iraq: It's A Mess

A congressional report on the state of the Iraq war was leaked yesterday over fears that the Pentagon and/or White House would water-down the report's bleak assessment. Today, the Pentagon asked that the bleak parts of the report be rewritten. Read it here. Despite the White House blowing smoke up everyone's ass about Iraq, the study found that the new Iraqi gov't has met only 3 of 18 benchmarks designated as signs of progress, and that despite Bush's rosy assertions that his "surge" was working, it all depends on your definition of "is." The numbers of attacks on US troops dropped from about 26 per day in June to about 25 per day in July, but attacks on civilians remained the same or increased.

Didn't the public speak loudly enough last election?