fútbol

i wasn't gonna, but the soccer siren sounded and we checked out the campeones cup match, atl utd over club america (mexico city), 3 - 2 --- a great game, not least for all the mexicans and central americans in attendance --- both mexican and american national anthems sung at the start

respect for human diversity is a big thing with soccer fandom, and rightly so --- but fans were ejected sunday over what stadium mgmt called "political" signs, which were actually signs about human rights --- the resurgence rowdies called b.s. on that with a statement "declaring that human rights are not political statements . . . . that making the Iron Front logo unwelcome while ignoring the growing presence of white nationalism in the terraces makes you complacent in the attacks being suffered by Seattle’s supporters – and ignorant of the dangerous landscape many MLS supporters face every day."