I am sure Steve Davis can defend himself; However, from a PST fan point of view, your comments/opinions are over the top. If you don’t agree, fine!, but calling his article a biased garbage just because you don’t agree is more than unacceptable… It’s simply thrashy attitude from your part. Clean up your act, filter your emotions from your words and only then you’d be credible and respected around here.
Learn to agree to disagree with people in a respectful manner becauase as much as you tried to rationalize your statements, your explanation that followed expose your true colors.

As for the “clear advantage”, missing Najar is obviously a setback, but the way these two teams played, NY should be everything but confident.

I still have trouble responding to almost anything you wrote. I would expect an article like this on a NY forum or something, not on a site calling itself “pro” soccer talk. “The rest of DC United’s men? Meh”. Like, which game are you talking about? Not even a token mention of DCU’s central defenders and them neutralizing NY’s attack. Surely they deserve at least a mention. And it just goes on.

If you are NY fan, fine, support whomever you wish. But, when you write an article as biased as this one, don’t get all upset and defensive when you get criticized for it.

By the way, I edited your comment. As you suggest, it IS a place for soccer news. But it isn’t a place for silly name calling and other juvenile stuff. If you can contribute to an adult conversation, by all means do. Otherwise, take it somewhere else.

I can deal with the limitations related to players. That’s evolving positively, and it’ll just take time for MLS to become a league that draws enough quality to be able to present consistently attractive games. But, I feel like the league could do more to get the officiating right, and that if the officiating were better the games would be played better by the talent that already exists. Watching MLS feels a lot to me like watching the USMNT play road games in CONCACAF. Seeing the better team win too often feels like more of a relief than a satisfying result.

DCU and Najar have to play/behave well enough to win in whatever conditions exist. That’s what winners do. But I believe that if the game had been officiated better DCU would have won and Najar probably would have retained a sufficient proportion of his sanity to remain on the field. Instead, I agree that there’s a better chance we’ll see an inferior team go through. That just can’t be good for business in the MLS.

Finally — since when can defenders tap the ball back to the goalkeeper, have same pick the ball up, and it not be an indirect kick?

Those were two mind-numbingly bad decisions by the referee crew.