St. Bombasticus News
du Nord, December 12, 2007
Let me say that I was dead wrong about Liverpool forward Fernando Torres. I had made the bold statement that he was not a big game player, and would shrivel up under the pressure at Liverpool. But for their sake, he has done the opposite. Great for him, good for the team. Can he now do it for Spain too?The Dallas Morning News says FC Dallas was working on a deal to trade Carlos Ruiz to LA who would ship Joe Cannon to DC who would send Bobby Boswell to Dallas. But, the deal collapsed.~ ~ ~ ~ ~Steven Goff of the Washington Post tells us what’s going on with current DC United keeper Troy Perkins. (Is he headed to Valarenga in Norway?)~ ~ ~ ~ ~And later Goff reports that Boswell has now been shipped off to Houston in exchange for that teams backup keeper Zach Wells. Which means that DC must figure they are going to lose Perkins, and are in need of a new starter.~ ~ ~ ~ ~Andrea Canales at Soccernet tells us what the LA Galaxy got out of their recent trip to Down Under.~ ~ ~ ~ ~Two stories on the search for new co