That Boy Clint Dempsey...

[timmyg]

From Grant Wahl's year retrospective thingy (my emphasis added):

LONDON, April 27 -- I'm running up against the deadline for my three-story SI magazine package on the Beautiful Game. And so, just 36 hours after returning from Brazil, I'm on a flight to London to meet U.S. star Clint Dempsey. In 2005 I wrote a piece on Dempsey for SI and gave him the chance to choose any restaurant he wanted, expenses paid. He chose the Foxboro Dunkin Donuts. Now Dempsey laughs at the memory and takes me to lunch at a nice seafood restaurant near Fulham's training ground. (He's so tight with the owner that no check ever materializes.)

[Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/grant_wahl/12/29/futbol.memories/index.html#ixzz19YIbZZ00]

Those of you not from/in New England may not get my emphasis. But for those that are/do, what a boy, eh?  :003:

[RidgeRider]

From Grant Wahl's year retrospective thingy (my emphasis added):

LONDON, April 27 -- I'm running up against the deadline for my three-story SI magazine package on the Beautiful Game. And so, just 36 hours after returning from Brazil, I'm on a flight to London to meet U.S. star Clint Dempsey. In 2005 I wrote a piece on Dempsey for SI and gave him the chance to choose any restaurant he wanted, expenses paid. He chose the Foxboro Dunkin Donuts. Now Dempsey laughs at the memory and takes me to lunch at a nice seafood restaurant near Fulham's training ground. (He's so tight with the owner that no check ever materializes.)

[Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/grant_wahl/12/29/futbol.memories/index.html#ixzz19YIbZZ00]

Those of you not from/in New England may not get my emphasis. But for those that are/do, what a boy, eh?  :003:

for a 21/22 year old, scarfing donuts is better than haute cuisine.  :045:

[TheInsider]

Interesting.. just found a little backstory from the same website and I think from the same guy. Sounds like quite a character.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1169764/index.htm

[duffbeer]

AMSTERDAM, March 4 -- On the day after the U.S.'s 2-1 friendly loss to the Netherlands, American midfielder Stuart Holden arrives at the departure gate for his return flight to Manchester, England. Also waiting for the flight is Dutch enforcer Nigel de Jong, the Manchester City midfielder who broke Holden's leg the night before with a vicious tackle. The injury will limit Holden's contribution at the World Cup (where he plays four minutes), a shame for a rising star who will be the U.S.'s most improved player in 2010. De Jong, the dirtiest player in world soccer, will go on to karate-kick Spain's Xabi Alonso in the World Cup final -- earning only a yellow card, the same punishment Andrés Iniesta gets for removing his jersey after scoring the game-winner -- and break the leg of Newcastle's Hatem Ben-Arfa in the Premier League. At their Amsterdam departure gate, Holden thinks De Jong might come over to apologize for breaking his leg. Instead, De Jong says nothing to him.



Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/grant_wahl/12/29/futbol.memories/index.html#ixzz19YM9X5Jp


Sorry for the NFR post but I like this paragraph on deJong.  In addition to what Wahl says, right after the leg breaking tackle DeJong put his arm around the ref in order to avoid a card when he should have put his arm around Holden or shown some sort of remorse for the outcome.  DeJong disgusts me.  I've no use for that scoundrel whatsoever

[Mr Fulham]

Interesting.. just found a little backstory from the same website and I think from the same guy. Sounds like quite a character.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1169764/index.htm

and Dempsey's team, Zamora, kept winning

:hook: :Sparkyticus: