"We are prepared to die for our Country!"

I know some of you may not watch the games till the tape delay so if learning the result of the game spoils it for you –stop reading now.

So it is my firm belief that the effort was not there from one side and that no matter what the result in the Italy Game would ultimately be the US team did not play like they wanted to move on (I know they wanted to – they just didn’t play like it). Say what you want about the ref and he was atrocious today – America did not deserve more than a tie today at best and that was not going to cut it anyway.

When your team captain makes a egregious error in the back field and clearly causes a goal I think much of your spirit is broken. But even before that the team lacked fire and competency. I am saddened by this effort – I wanted the US to go to the next round but today they showed that they didn’t deserve to – so disappointing. Listen to what the Ghana captain had said before the game “We are prepared to die for our country” that is some fire inna yuh belly kinna talk. The US had none of that.

Bruce Arena may want to dust of his resume because he produced this team and did not seem to inspire them to greatness. Before the World Cup I said Dempsey should start – Arena disagreed with almost every fan of the US team and sat Dempsey the entire first game he then sat Eddie Johnson all of the 2nd game favoring aging players who had showed no spark. I love that Demps got the goal today (the only goal scored by a US player) because he silenced all his critics and showed why many of us think he could be a star (he plays MLS…take of that what you will). I am not the quickest to say that a coach should be fired because I think too often fans scream for coaches heads but think of this as he has done all he can – if you hired someone to dig a well and all they showed up with was a shovel, once they start and clearly cannot finish the job you would replace them…maybe it’s now time for the US to hire someone with at least a pick axe.
Ghana 2 US 1; Italia 1 Czechs 0: Italy and Ghana advance!

If di fassy woulda jus play di bwoy dem weh have di talent fi put di rahtid ball inna di back a di rahtid net CONCACAF couldda have more dan jus soso Mexico inna di game fi rep wi!