MLS EASTERN CONF. CHAMPIONSHIP: Chicago Fire @ Columbus Crew

[realmadridroxs74]

I was at that game on the side line cuz i know people who work there

[libertysoccer25]

that was a special, special crew squad. I'll never forget that year.

[watthead]

I miss Guille.

[Emper0rH0rde]

So Brian McBride was the Columbus fans' hero for eight years, he left to play in England for a number of years, he shows up in MLS again and now they're booing him and calling him a traitor just because he's playing for another team? How classless is that?

[usasoccer024]

@Emper0rH0rde mcbride played for the chicago fire who were the crews first true rivals

[Emper0rH0rde]

@usasoccer024 Okay, that's a reason, but I don't see it as an excuse. I'm not making an superiority claims, but when a DC United fan favorite gets transferred to another team, even if it's a rival, our fans always show him respect before and after the game.

[sykotik04]

@Emper0rH0rde We did respect him before and after games. Same thing we do with Alejandro Moreno, Brian Carroll, Eric Brunner, Steven Lenhart, Jason Garey, etc. They helped us through the years, and we thank them for it. But for the 90+ minutes they're running around OUR pitch in colors that aren't Black and Gold, they are scum. Idc who you are or what you did, if you're trying to make the Crew lose, you're worthless in our eyes.

[Emper0rH0rde]

@sykotik04 Well, I can relate to that. We may not boo our former star players in DC, but we do cheer against them during the game.

[betic15]

greatest game of my life, i still get chills thinking about that night and seeing it live

[infernoflames98]

Blanco is like 40! How the heck is he still playing?

[infernoflames98]

I

♥

Crew!

[nickk382]

Great fan support, love to see MLS growing year by year.

[Moothead2]

What the fuck is the point of cheerleaders? They should have no place at a football stadium.

[4Real2Talk0]

dude!!! i just went and saw the crew last night!!! i cant remember who they were playing tho

[MSensky]

Massive

[matandote]

i was at this game. chicago plays dirty

[sasqush123]

WE R THE COLUMBUS CREW

[jhzingozboy]

go Fire I Hate Columbus

[arsenalcrew]

And Columbus hates you

[libertysoccer25]

@arsenalcrew: your username has two of the greatest teams in the world!

[jaredcliff]

Go crew we gonna win it again this year

[TheBarnacleIsCool]

Genova & Columbus Twinnn citiessssss

[DGTURK10]

i was at there game agaisnt rochester rhinos they suck they lost vs. a team thats weaker and lower ranking it was pretty funny

[bentley92889]

you're a complete dumbass. The crew played mostly their reserves as it was a midweek game between meaningful MLS matches. Try to actually think before you say something next time.

[DGTURK10]

it doesnt matter who they play with their suppose to be mls champs and they cant beat the rhinos and they were playing their star players

[bentley92889]

that comment doesn't make any sense. the team that the Crew sent on the field was a bunch of guys that will never see the field during a regular season game certainly weren't on the field during their Championship run. The rhino went all out for this because the open cup is the only way for the USL teams to get any respect, and MLS teams just don't give a shit. These games happen every year in the tournament, they don't mean shit.

[TelecontarElessar]

I was there that night...I've seen better games on television but in terms of atmosphere and importance it was the best match I've ever attended.  I was in the Nordecke when Marshall scored the equalizer, I ended up about five rows away from my original seat after the celebrations.

[papano12]

Fires got to step it up man.

[JulMaca94]

CHUCH

[acheroncyc]

I felt curious about the MLS so I started to watch video of it here. After a while, I notice there seems to be something missing but I can't tell exactly what it is. It has the nice camera angles and everything but it still feels dull compared to other leagues...

[yellowarmy1912]

american soccer s*cks. look to european soccer(football) its much better

[vaingloriousyouth]

yellow army

you are from the netherlands, what do you know about good football. the Eredivisie is the worst league in europe. go enjoy some karnemelk and walking around in clogs and let the rest of us enjoy our football.

[ColumbusCrewForever]

I mean there is no way we could ever beat a European team like Spain

[slayerironmaiden666]

blanco is the best in fire

[MrFlyPerfect]

Why do Canadians act like they are English?

[TheYasinatorTVpage]

this match was more entertaining than many epl matches and im english

[chewydude4]

wow TFC fans would have been much louder than that

[bentley92889]

And I was just responding to your rediculously poorly thought up song "mate".

[LikeMLSrus]

Columbus appears briefly as a champion.

PS RSL is gonna kick their asses next season!

[ZacJDub]

FUUUUUUUCK OFFFFF Columbus Crew

Before TFC you had no clue

Empty stands, no fucking fans

We've seen better in a garbage can

FUUUUUUUCK OFFFFF Columbus Crew

Before TFC you had no clue

No fucking fans, in your stands

Crew Stadium is a waste of land.

[bentley92889]

Leave it to another Toronto fan to have no fucking clue about what he's talking about and compare teams based off attendance. When the league first started, Columbus was the only city to get 10,000 season ticket deposits. Lamar Hunt built the first soccer stadium in Columbus despite what people said. You wouldn't have BMO Field and your shitty plastic turf w/o the Crew you dumb ignorant fuck.

[ZacJDub]

its just a song mate ;)

it seems ive hit a few strings! Goodluck this afternoon wanker!

[ColumbusCrewForever]

Fuck Off Toronto FC

You aint got no history

We won the shield and the league

Thats what we call history

[magicnelson14]

right on

[MrFlyPerfect]

You all can rag on Blanco but

the Crew dove that whole match.

Even Ives from soccerbyives pointed out the diving. 2:42 Gaven dives for the free kick that led to the equalizer.

Go Fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[sporting7cristal]

poor columbus, ceattle sounders is gonna kick their asses next season

[newboston14]

blancos garbage he cried that whole game i couldnt enjoy the game cause of his cring so i sat in the stand and was pissed the whole game....fuck u blanco

[krazynegrito]

fuk yall nothin but luck! fuck crew! its all about chitown!!!!!

[sjawarrior08]

blanco is stupid he needs to retire

[edmannumber1]

fuck u

[matthewkeri12345]

Totally all he does is dive screw Blanco.

[derekndshena]

@matthewkeri12345 why u hating

[derekndshena]

@sjawarrior08 thats way he was one of the best in theMLS

[Kyler2013]

Columbus Crew kicks ass!!!

[aliwomack]

haha i agree! crew does own chicago and ny! they were clearly the better team this year. they deserved it! GO CREW!

[silkysinclair1987]

fire all the way

[matthewkeri12345]

CREW OWNS YOU CHICAGO AND NEW YORK!!

[icbluepeople19]

i hate columubus crew go chicago fire!!!!!!

[tigereye511]

I really wanted New York to win, but Columbus and especially Schelotto were too much.

[vivelavidarocka]

They deserved it, they played better. Next year in our new stadium.

[edmannumber1]

what new stadium?

[vivelavidarocka]

They're building a new stadium in Patterson, NJ. 25.000, 20 min from NYC. It's going to be ready for next season. RED BULLS!!

[rfleader06]

i thought it was in Harrison.

either way, RBA is looking better and better every day on the webcam. i'm even contemplating flying all the way over there to watch any SJ-NY game coming up.

[LelleLawliet02]

schelotto rulz

[karm53]

Schelotto made the difference in this team. His experience as an international player has helped columbus a lot. Thanks Guille.

[lagalaxysoccerfan]

lets go sigi

[orwellthegeorge]

Come on the Christopher 'Peter Falk' Colombus Crew.

[90631kol]

blanco is the best

[aliwomack]

COLUMBUS 'TIL I DIE!!!!!

[FootballCONCACAF]

lol. rbny will crush them

[DVROFFMAN]

These fans have been waiting almost 13 years for this. Good for them. Go Crew this Sunday!!!!! To hell with the Metro-Red Bull -stars.

[vivelavidarocka]

WE ARE THE BEST CITY IN THE WORLD, NOW WE'LL HAVE THE BEST FOOTBALL TEAM IN THE USA!!! RED BULLS 3 - crew 0 MVP:  Pablo Angel

[soccerbros16]

im not a crew fan but the red bulls beat Real salt lake by sheer luck crew is going to dominate them!

[uftscs123]

columbus goin lose to ny

[soccerbros16]

dream on new york beat Real salt lake by sheer luck the crew will dominate them! As ive said before i am a fire fan but i am looking at statistics and the crew should win!

[RandomVids12]

yeah really i mean salt lake hit the post like 3 times. keeper made some saves the post made the rest. if there was no post it would have been bad for ny...

[soccerbros16]

im a fire fan but i think crew is going to win the cup they are playing the red bulls and they should beat them!

[softdev1]

LET'S GO CREW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[3s3Pando11]

damn that fuckin sucks this is gonna be by far the gayest MLS cup finals if chicago wud have made it wud have been much better

[bravesoccer06]

piss on the fire

[soccerbros16]

piss on u

[soccerbros16]

this comment was supposed to go to the guy that said piss on fire but my computer messed up

[RandomVids12]

yeah cant have a team from columbus in the finals now can we? im tired of people. what does everyone have against caolumbus and sports?

[unak78]

If you continue to have the fan support that you showed in this game,... nothing.

If you go back to your normal attendance levels, then MLS should move you to St. Louis.

[Cparch]

Great Game

[chukislamamukis]

mls just needs more money then imagine how big the league will get.

[edmannumber1]

Crew vs Red Bulls for the MLS Cup

[gonzalezdelta101]

what day

[edmannumber1]

this sunday :P

[rossifer001]

i wouldnt say its a large percentage...but considering usa is a big country there are still tons of people who watch it. also its growing in popularity

[RandomVids12]

yeah and were getting some new teams soon...so that will hopefully be good

[baltimoreravensfc]

great atmosphere... hope they win the championship.

[sporting7cristal]

crew is da best

[juanpi182]

i am from argentina and i have a question..is there a big percent of americans who watch ´´soccer´´? or is a sport with little popularity?

[jballstar07]

That's crap Columbus booing McBride like that. He bust his ass for 8 years with The Crew. Owed those fans nothing. I'm glad he scored that goal right in front of thier supportors section. How can they hate him for wanting to play for his hometown, especially after all he did for their team? It's called RESPECT.

[shadedlane]

blah blah blah shut it

[softdev1]

It was a small percentage. Most of us still really like McBride as evident by all the autograph requests before the game. The announcers made it sound worse than it was.

[RandomVids12]

if i had 2 choose between my hometown or a team i played for for a long time, i would go with the team i was with.

[buckeyemike20]

The day that man pulls off an MLS shirt for the last time, he will be reinstated as a Columbus legend. Until that time, he plays for our biggest rival and will be a marked man inside Hunt Park.

[CDPDPatrolUnit]

Next year, we'll revenge!!! Go Fire!!! Burn them Down!!!

[SSBB12347]

im sure...columbus is the best mls team in skill( although my fav is the red bulls)

columbus will lazily put out the fire

[soccerbros16]

schelotto looks like he is on steroids look at his upper body!

[esunsinverguenza]

Twin Guillermo will lead Columbus to the Championship. You will see!!!!

[laxchamp96]

yeah i was at the game and there was atleast 3 chances for a pk for the crew but the ref sucked...

[guitarbuckeye04]

I was there!!!!

about 19 rows up

[tahir630247365]

are any of you chelsea fans?

[edmannumber1]

i just saw then beat West Brom today :P

[tigereye511]

Great game by Chicago and Columbus. I'm glad Columbus won though, I think they do deserve the cup, even though I want the Red Bulls to win. Hopefully it will be a Red Bulls Crew final!

[xoxmetalgrl666]

I hate blanco.

I think it's time for him to go retire

[LilMsBeck]

i think blanco needs to lose some weight!

[jballstar07]

Really needed a Rolfe goal in this one too. Great competitive game from both sides here though. Whoever won this game SHOULD be winning The Cup, but never know with Redbulls these days. Hell, I could even see RSL taking it too.

All bias aside though, 2:40 looks like a dive to me from that angle. Defiantly not card worthy if their feet caught each other trying to get possession. Completely unintentional. Call was defiantly the turning point in the game.

[Darthseanioc]

Yeah, i think at 5:00 the reff probably shoulda called a pk cuz the slide tackle was after the kick

[El10delaVinotinto]

Alejandro Morenos is a great player

[felixblogger]

aww crap....Chicago lost....oh well the Crew are going to win the MLS cup for sure. they had a pretty good season this year.

[xshawnyxboyx]

there's no doubt that columbus is the best team in the league, and they deserve the cup. but it is hard to root for them when i hate their fans so much. how can you boo brian mcbride? who spent so many years with your club and did so much for your country

[slimjim7463]

hes a traitor. he basically shit on the team that started his career by going to the fire. columbus would have took him back with open arms.

[jonesta29]

McBride probably should have come back to the Crew but Chicago is his home town and he wanted to be back there so it's ok by me, besides did Chicago win last night?...no the young Crew won

[xshawnyxboyx]

are you retarded? he played 8 years for columbus. thats an eternity mls. he owed them nothing. besides, he has a family to raise. and he wants to raise them in chicago, his hometown, not columbus.

[tigereye511]

I know. you can't call someone a traitor becuase they came onto another team. Horrible sportsmanship by booing him.

[jonesta29]

Having said the above McBride did pretty much betray them, so I can't fault them for booing him

[slimjim7463]

seriously, do you expect to choose another team over the crew and then come to crew stadium and not be booed?

[xshawnyxboyx]

he didn't choose them over the crew because the crew was never an option. the ownership of the crew didn't even show interest in pursuing him

[RandomVids12]

no columbus would have loved to have him back. the crew was a huge option.

[zawadscki]

THE FUCKING CREW ALWAYS WINS ,BUT i DON'T LIKE EITHER TEAM.

[lakersrock1212]

crew is just hating cause they dont got mcbride.

[simpsonsfan2007]

Hard work finally pays off...Crew all the way!!!

[ManUStriker7]

GO CREW!!!

[kjarty21]

WE ARE THE BEST IN THE EAST!!!!!!!!! Don't be sour Chicago, you had a good season, but even the neutrals agree we are the best team this year!

Wise man say only fools rush in, but I can't help falling in love with CREW!!!!!!!!

[soccerbros16]

Screw every one who thinks Mcbride is a traitor He is a frickin beast and u know it u Crew fans are just pissed he isnt with u guys anymore

[dgaudet0609]

columbus sucks balls.....CHICAGO is BEAST!!!!!

[blobman2000]

BRING THE FUCK ON RSL WE WILL KICK UR ASS

[Neish34141700]

Guille!! Guille!

[esupin]

Wow, good game, and great crowd!!!

[zidane81]

watching this game proves to me that football/soccer is here to stay in America, all that each team needs is its own stadium, before only one team actually had fans and it was the Galaxy now every team in the league has fans thanks to the Stadiums, all they need now is to lift that 3 million salary cap to at least 10 million for better on field players. cause if you can get this kind if soccer for 3 million imagine what 10 million would bring in.

[Thep38lightning]

Bro i cannot agree with you more

[ro7477]

being a Browns + OSU fan i am scared of being dissa-pointed. last night after conceding the goal, i switched the tv off. got the news we won the day after - BRILLIANT.

[cavspunk08]

i was gonna turn the tv off after the McTraitor Goal but I just knew somehow we were gonna pull it off!!! BRING ON RED BULLS OR REAL SALT LAKE!!!!!!

[FroYo44]

GO RED BULLS

[FCnewyorkESC]

from a Ny Redbull fan.....WHAT A CROWD

[steveo1794]

woo just one more game for Columbus!

Ive always wanted to see them win the cup and this might be the year.

[dwoodard78]

Good job Columbus, making that comeback in the 2nd. half.

[galancrewfan]

YEAH WE DID IT !!!! GO CREW the crew played well and they should win the mls cup go crew and FUCK BLANCO WHOS AGREE WITH ME?

[djgeoffe]

Wow, what a match. If Columbus plays like this in the Cup final they may be unstoppable. Regardless if it's RSL or NY, it's going to be another great match final this year. All three remaining teams have players with flair, finesse and stamina. Would love to see the city of Columbus get their first real national champion (Ohio State doesn't count in my opinion).

[eberalex]

Vamos Moreno!! Go Moreno!!

[angelo1405]

Props to Columbus and the nordecke...they've stepped it up extremely this year, good luck in the final

[terpis]

Good for CLB...lame yellow card/critical free kick, though.

It just wouldn't be the MLS without iffy refereeing, I guess.

Maybe some kind of instant replay rule would help? (it'd be a real momentum-buster, though)

[sevillista1demayo]

Me alegro por Columbus, a sido el mejor equipo todo el año y se merecian llegar a la final.

[kronos06sp]

why you hate ny?

[aleazcazan]

the mls needs better refs! it was both ways this game.. but the most serious one was the yellow at the 47min that gave the first goal to crew... wtf? i saw the game that was no yellow and there was no previous fighting between those two players to demand a yellow! i also saw other calls that werent given and some that were legit. come on mls get your refs in order.. this season i saw many, many controversial calls.

[nelo87]

Well, Columbus Crew have been the best ones in the league. It would be fair, if they become the MLS Champions. Oh yea and I missed the game again. I'm just not used to this schedule. I mean, football on Thursdays...wtf.

[ClassicRockMitch]

congrats crew

[Cheron016]

MLS needs to take its loyal fans seriously

The season has to start one week earlier so we can see epic home-away semifinals OR make just one game for the quarterfinals and two home-away matches for the conference championships(semifinals). We need to see more quality games like this one. Remember also espn international broadcasted this game on many countries and that adds more respect to the league.

even better if they put a home-away final.

MLS has potential.Seriously.

[michaelgeorgehanlon]

very entertaining game, although i was rooting for chicago, because i wanted to see blanco at the hdc in the final.

and congrats to sean franklin, who won rookie of the year!

i'm a galaxy fan, if you haven't noticed.

[lutheranbaseball]

yeah this was an entertaining game to watch...mls has definitely improved its product

[Jimmybangkok]

I would've liked this to be another two leg series to see what Chicago might have pulled out at home. The teams who make it to the conference finals are worth watching.

[ScrawnyRonnie]

^Watched the game earlier. Congrats to Columbus.

I say they'll face NY in the final. Can't say who will win though. DC fan, so it doesn't matter to me either way.

[schmno11]

New York match on Saturday 9:30 pm. Fox soccer channel.. Let's Go Red Bulls!!!

[afer95]

thanks for the info :)

[zidane81]

i thought it was on HD NET??? damn it i dont have that channel

[angelo1405]

This was on ESPN. The next one (RSL x NY) is on FSC and HD NET

[afer95]

first comment :D

just for fun, dont rate it bad please

when its new york, match??

[Bionicpix]

You blew it. THUMBS DOWN!!!!!!!!!

[afer95]

ash... thats legal, im doing something bad??'

no, so whats the problem?