I'm not feeling Tevez.  I'm usually a big supporter of personnel decisions made at the club (unlike 99% of all other Manchester United fans), and I have spent an inordinate amount of time defending the likes of Evra, Vidic, Howard (naturally), and Smith.  In this case though, Tevez just doesn't feel right - he doesn't fit into the system correctly, and he doesn't change the system in the right way (as Ronaldo did).  A player has to do one of those two things.  Either hold the status quo or advance the team (relative to the rest of the league).  Tevez?  Just sort of sits there, like a slightly less deformed Cuauhtémoc Blanco.

 

This seems like a good segue into mentioning that Blanco sucks.  I feel like Mexico was so envious of Claudio Reyna, that they tried to make a Reyna out of inferior Mexican clay, and he ended up being a lumpy, slower, stupider version of Reyna.  And that was their captain for years - culminating in a humiliating (for them) defeat against the US in the 2002 World Cup octofinals.

 

And that seems like a good segue into mentioning that the US plays Mexico, at US, to open the real World Cup qualifying next year.  So for all readers out there, even if you aren't soccer fans, this is a good time to get involved - show your support for the national team by watching the game, and jeering loudly for the next two months at anyone who looks like they may be of Mexican descent.