That goal has probably added another £5 to £10 million to Summerville’s transfer fee…
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Gooooaaallll!!!
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cracking second half
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2:2, what a fantastic second half!
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Sell on clause, nice 
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All credit to the Japanese manager for going for it with his inspired subs. The Japanese fans sang their hearts out all game. AND they will clean up after themselves…
Good second half of footy.
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Credit should go to Ronald Koeman instead. Defensive substitutions, trying to hang on to a one goal lead, are what did us in.
It’s never worked for us.
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Right - over to the Beeb for Ecuador v Ivory Coast…
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I haven’t really been watching Summerville since his move to The Hammers, but his goal tonight was typical of his time at The Mighty Whites, changing direction and cutting along the face of the penalty box before smacking it into the net.
He always seemed to be able to create the space needed to get his shot in, and scored some beauties like this at Leeds on a repeat basis.
Some player. 
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I always got the sense that he was playing for himself at Leeds, Dave and not for the team but he did score some great goals. Have we a sell-on clause?
It seems that we don’t have a sell-on clause, though it’s rumoured that we might receive some money based on international appearances. 
I thought he was having a quiet game tonight, until that run across the the face of the box, and I thought “ Here we go, he’s gonna bang one in”.
And so did he!
Ah, memories.
M.O.T.
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Browsing the highlights and reading the reports. Very clear that subs around the second hydration break are increasingly critical.
I’m enjoying it!
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Two teams going at it hammer and tongs. Ecuador very impressive I think.
Benni McCarthy (pundit on the BBC) seems to have lost a bit of weight since he played with us 15 or so years ago 
I cannot see the point in these half time analysis BS crapfests. They’re all the same… ”He should have found the net…He should have saved that…Let me draw an arrow to show you where he’s going to run…And another to show you where he could have run…Look at all this space in front of him…It was all different in my day…Jumpers for goalposts, oranges at half time.” Such inane bollox.
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Not the result I expected or wanted, but that was a hugely entertaining game. A draw would have been fair I think, but well done to both teams, especially the Ivory Coasters.
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One can see the need for hydration breaks when heat is extreme. But last night at the Japan v Netherlands game, the temperature in the air conditioned stadium was just 22 degC. So why the need for a “hydration break”?
Because thanks to the weakness, cupidity and corruption at Thiefa, and the sheer greed of American broadcasters and corporations we in the rest of the world have to endure an extra three minute break each half so US networks can force-feed more advertising slop to their consumers. And that slimy little bald Gollum at Thiefa sanctioned it.
American avarice and hustler capitalism ruins everything. Including football.
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The Beeb website has commented today on this subject, on pretty much the same lines.
But then, as they point out, there’s also a useful “tactics” aspect.
“When Brazil’s players took on water midway through the first half at the New Jersey New York Stadium on Saturday, they deservedly trailed Morocco 1-0 after a lacklustre start.
Six minutes after play resumed they were level.
<<para snipped, regarding Vini’s superb strike>>
But as Brazil boss Carlo Ancelotti acknowledged afterwards, the hydration break enabled him to deliver fresh instructions to his players and tweak the system.”
Whether that’s any better or worse than sending messages via a cough injured cough player is debatable.
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Very good!
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