This Revolution won't be televised

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doerayme

Santa Clara 90298

Chicago security* 2549259

2008-08-21T01:18:00-04:00

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doerayme

Santa Clara 90298

If he wouldnt have shoved ROB, then none of this wouldnt have happened. Don't act like our fans are so horrible, when you have racist slurs being directed toward Chicago fans...by CHICAGO fans. It is the fans job to get into the players mind and give our team the fullest advantage. Not to sit back and go "oh...that was a nice goal *clap*" Have you ever heard of the 12th man? 2549297

2008-08-19T14:16:27-04:00

Ayti

Houston 477482

player throws bottle . . . league throws book. fine, understood by all parties. fan acts like di*k and nothing happens. Of course if a bottle were to fly into his head you wouldn't hear me crying about it. 2532959

2008-08-18T23:43:28-04:00

StanCollins

Silver Spring 32593

Agree with JDMer. Player throws bottle. . .league throws book. 2526588

2008-08-18T13:34:57-04:00

JDMer

Fremont 476723

Stop playinbg the fool. If taunting is a reason for a bottle to the head then most of the MLS fans deserve a bottle to the head based on your logic regardless of how poorly you present it. Your defense of Smith's actions leave something to be desired. I take it you are Rev's fan sorry that the result wasn't in your favor? 2521017

2008-08-18T02:13:53-04:00

da-cit-iee

Don't Mess 476369

Some of the Quakes fans are complete idiots and don't really understand the game and just look at it as an excuse to get drunk and act like wanna-be hooligans.. I wish I could say it was surprising to hear about their actions but its not. I hope the bottle hit them in the head 2516685

<img src="http://www.islandstats.com/gallery1/khanosmith8.jpg" vspace="4" height="210" hspace="4" align="right" alt="" width="250" />Khano Smith broke one of the primary directives of being a professional athlete: You don’t engage fans who are trying to provoke you. After Saturday night’s tilt between the San Jose Earthquakes and the New England Revolution, I was probably the only journalist who saw the Revs’ big Bermudan striker (pictured) angrily hurl a full bottle of Gatorade at two Quakes fans who were heckling him as he headed toward the locker rooms. Smith made a lot of enemies in the hostile crowd during his team’s 4-0 loss to the Quakes, mostly for shoving San Jose winger Ronnie O’Brien and continuously trying to bait the Irishman. Every time the 6-foot-3 Smith touched the ball, Quakes fans booed him mercilessly and kept the Bronx cheers going as the humiliated Revolution left the pitch. But you’ve got to leave that stuff on the field. Smith didn’t. Two fans kept taunting him from the other side of the partition that separates the stadium from the practice field, and Smith played right into their hands, first by inviting them to meet him in the parking lot, then by trying to go after them (a pair of his teammates actually had to restrain him). So instead, he hurled the bottle right at them from about 30 feet away. Granted, the fans may have been acting like idiots, but that’s no excuse to resort to that form of retaliation. If Major League Soccer gets wind of this, the league could suspend Smith and/or fine him. This wasn’t exactly Eric Cantona <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/27/newsid_2506000/2506237.stm" target="_blank">karate-kicking a Crystal Palace supporter</a>, but by and large, MLS players don’t assault -- or try to assault -- fans. Stay tuned. • Add Chris Albright’s name to the list of people who aren't exactly sad to see Ruud Gullit out of MLS. Albright, who was traded from Los Angeles to New England in January, says he knew the second the Dutchman was hired as Galaxy coach last November that he’d be out before the season was over. “My thought was that he’d be gone by midway through this year -- I thought that two days after meeting him,” said the 29-year-old defender, who was part of the Galaxy squad that made preseason trips to Australia and New Zealand. What was the problem? “Lack of respect for the players. No real concern about wanting to know MLS or caring to know MLS. You wouldn’t believe some of the stuff [he did].” That echoes very closely <a href="http://www.latimes.com/sports/soccer/galaxy/la-spw-galaxy13-2008aug13,0,3956432.story" target="_blank">some of the comments</a> made by Galaxy star Landon Donovan last week in the wake of the L.A. shakeup. 2608 http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/459/8/thumb/freedman_jonah.jpg 14 CA

Jonah Freedman

San Francisco 4618