If one thing’s been readily apparent over the last few weeks, it’s that everything surrounding Real Salt Lake is wrapped up in contradictions and absolutes.
And that’s not too uncommon among supporters, because really, there’s nothing easy about all of this, and there are no clear-cut answers. It’s whenever we fool ourselves into thinking there are that we make critical examination easy, and this is hardly hyperlocated on any one viewpoint. It’s something that permeates the fabric of casual soccer analysis, but that doesn’t make it any less worth pointing our gaze at.
Let’s go over some of those contradictions and absolutes, because that’s where we’ll find we can make the most ground and assent to some common baseline arguments.