A week ago, I was angry with the Timbers. This week, I’m angry with the referees. I’m gonna call that progress.
1) Man of the Match for Saturday’s game in Dallas was clearly the referee, Marcos de Oliveira. No player affected the game half as much as he did, and his work began on Dallas’s opening goal in the 9th minute. Let’s take a look.
I was prepared to be completely outraged about this goal. I mean, the dude was clearly offside!