Avoiding the Drop

What you missed while blaming the jellyfish invasion on global warming…

• Your MLS semifinal results: LA Galaxy 2 – 0 Houston Dynamo (aet); Chicago Fire 0 – 0 (p) Real Salt Lake. Truth be told, both of these games were really entertaining to watch; if the MLS regular season played like the MLS postseason, we wouldn’t whine about how bad the league is.
• A Moroccan pitch invader outscored the entire Moroccan national team on Saturday.
• Rumors of Robin van Persie’s ended season have been highly exaggerated; the Dutchman will only miss four to six weeks with torn ankle ligaments.
• Obafemi Martins scored twice for Nigeria in their 3-2 win over Kenya; that win put them into the World Cup over Tunisia.
• Kaka thinks that Fabio Capello should definitely include David Beckham in his World Cup squad; he also doesn’t regret snubbing Manchester City last January.
• Lassana Diarra say that the Irish players were “looking for trouble” after their loss to France on Saturday (bonus: Patrice Evra asked John O’Shea to calm his players down).
• Carlo Cudicini’s Kellen Winslow impression will only continue for about 12 more weeks.
• Good news for Portsmouth: your transfer ban is set to be lifted, freeing you to spend your nonexistant oil money. Bad news for Portsmouth: Peter Storrie, the guy who would be buying players for you, is going to be in court on tax evasion charges related to the last time you bought players this January.
• Gary Neville thinks that an elite pool of pro-Manchester United top officials should be given all the biggest fixtures in the English game.
• Jose Mourinho may or may not be looking to come back to England.
• Ben Foster’s frustrated because he hasn’t gotten enough first-team football at Manchester United; United fans are frustrated because they think Foster’s gotten too much first-team football.