A Damp Squib in Toronto
No Becks. No Donovan. No win for the Galaxy. Again.
"We gave the journalists ammunition to say we can't play without these two," Galaxy coach Ruud Gullit said.
Wait a minute. That's what he said after the Rapids U.S. Open Cup game.
You get the idea.
And there was no imagination in midfield, bite in defense or (much) Alan Gordon, um, fire power up front either.
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Ruud's only partially right. What he really meant to say was the Galaxy cannot win w/o "those two."