Goal came during injury time in the first half.

Goal! Around the 87th minute, Sydney Dos Santos tied it up.

Well, I guess it's all done at 1-1. Patriots go 0-1-2 on the road trip. Two points are better than none and the ties represent a major switch for the Pats with not even so much as a tie last season on the road.

Cool. Atlanta's next.

Your El Pepso team is quite poor. They continue their cheating and diving ways and thereby continue to be a disgrace to your fine city, your fascist-spawning state, and the league.

Further, their play is scattered and their passes make no sense at all.

Your goalie Llamas caused the only goal against due to a senseless penalty he took. He had the ball fully in his posession after an easy catch on which he suffered no contact, and then right in front of the referee knocks a Vancouver player to the ground from behind! Vancouver was given a penalty shot and Llamas was given a yellow card. Rightly so. Vancouver scored on the penalty shot.

Later in the game, when I gave him some friendly taunting about having an assist on the only goal against - despite there being many children around - he responds with a string of expletives and calls my mother "a cheap whore". How creative. And on Mother's Day no less. Other of your players have acted similarly when visiting here each season.

Your team always has been and continues to be a classless bunch of cheating crybaby divers. The only way I'd be more ashamed than being a fan of your team would be if I were a player on the team.

That's The Truth !!!

Well..........

1. Llamas should give his head a shake. He spends the first half keeping the Pats in the game then nails our guy in the penalty area when Llamas had the ball in his hand. He just whacked him in the back of the head. Bad move. We go up 1-0 on the ensuing PK- we thoroughly deserved the lead, but it's funny how the goals arrive sometimes.

2. the Pats goal came on a corner. It was probably the only way, as they never looked like scoring on the run. Not even close. But they have one or two guys that really work hard. Juarez ran miles for the Pats and looked very capable when he had the ball. Same goes for MacFarlane and Dos Santos. Those three represented the entire Patriots work ethic. The rest were basically giving the ball away on a regular basis.

3. For some inexplicable reason, the Whitecaps stopped playing halfway throught the second half. That is the only way the game was tied. We just stopped. EP did nothing for their goal, but they got one and that's the way it goes sometimes.

4. EP celebrated the final whistle like they won the game outright which is saying something. They should be really happy they weren't spanked. Should have been 4-0 after the first half........but as I said, that's the way it goes sometimes. The Caps are still undermanned with injuries and right now is probably the best time to try and take a point or two out of here.

5. Attendance was around 4400. Beautiful warm sunny evening.....pitch was in great condition.

6. The Pats wore a new blue uniform. It is navy blue with a wide red/maroon stripe down the side of the shirt that continues down the shorts. The stripe was marked by diagonal navy pinstripes. Navy shorts and socks. It isa actually quite a sharp looking kit and totally different from their old one. Pepsi still the shirt sponsor.

You guys got away with one tonight. Be satisfied with it and hope that the team improves vastly or it will be a long season.

The Whitecaps stopped playing halfway through the second half? Gee when have they started playing this season? They are crap, crap, crap.

Anyway guys, my site has my take on the game and it has some photos of the game in the galleries.

http://newheads.tripod.com/swangardsouth/id1.html

The Truth,
Can you tell me what A-League or MLS team you play for? It just seems to me that you are such an expert in soccer that you must be playing at a higher level than the A-League. I just think that you should go play in Europe for a year than come back and insult players that can easily embarass you on a soccer field. Out of several hundred posts on this discussion board, I have yet to see someone act so uncivilized. I do agree with you when you say that it is imature for a player to yell back at a taunting fan, but I also think that perhaps, it is the Whitecaps who are embarassed to have you as a fan.
That is the truth in my book.

Wow. I guess it's nice to hear only one Whitecaps fan bash the Pats for diving and cheating.

I think for El Paso it was something of a victory. It has to be the first time in over a year where two out of three road games didn't end in a Patriots' loss.

They do not have scoring touch. They do not have a forward to receive and hold a ball to create offense. They DO have an improved defense. Aside from a butt-kicking in Seattle, that's four games with only one goal allowed. I don't know if it's that everyone else is crap -- I tend to call it good "D".

The Pats were lucky not to get spanked? Really?! And it took a moment of cerebral flatulence on the part of our goalie for the Caps to get their goal? Tsk-tsk.

LOL!
The Truth, you are hilarious, among other things that are not appropriate to say on this forum. At least you didn't use foul language like last season. IIRC, I had to delete one of your post. Why is it that K-man and W-fan didn't really seem to agree with what you said? Maybe I didn't read their post right, but they don't mention anyting about the diving and such.

As for the taunting of Llamas, I find it intresting that you say he lost his cool, yet Krammerhead gives props to Jesse for keeping his despite the constant taunting from the Southsiders. I believe he said he kept a sense of humor about it. "Friendly" taunting.......hmmmmm........if your taunting is anything like your post, I highly doubt that your taunting was "friendly".

One more thing, despite what jerks like you say about my team, they are still MY team. I am proud to be a Patriots' fan!

Anyways........

Thanks to Krammerhead and whitecapsfan for the match reports and pictures of the game.

What I wrote is purely The Truth and not at all in violation of anything. The diving and cursing and cheap play exhibited by your team is ongoing and so defacto as to almost not bear mentioning. Your team is infamous for it around the league.

But Krammerhead DID mention your goalie's foul play (why else would a PK and Yellow Card be given???) as well as your players diving (player lying on the field at the end of the first half and even your own team walked off ignoring his "injury".)

The entire first half your team crossed center field perhaps twice and were robbed on a scoring chance by our keeper. In the 2nd half you scored on your only shot and to say the Whitecaps were dogging it in the 2nd would be polite. If our team had any idea how to shoot below 30ft high the score would have been lopsided.

I played as high a level as the national championships over many seasons in my teens, which wasn't long ago, and my father played in 2nd division in Italy. But one needn't be a player to still be a keen observer and tell The Truth !!!

As for Llamas, all I said to him was "Senor Llamas you caused the only goal against your team ... you got an assist on that goal !!!" and he responded with expletives and calling my dear mom a nasty thing. I should have kicked has *** for it but was too busy laughing *at* him losing his cool so easily.

In fact, this is the 3rd time in recent seasons that an El Pepso player has hurled foul language, rude gestures, and/or threats at me personally. I go to every game and NO OTHER PLAYER in the league has done the same. I DO NOT comment on their mothers, their nationality, their colour, or anything else that would merit such retorts in front of children !!

I do however chastise them for their fould play and foul mouths and that too is The Truth.

Well, thanks so much for your niftily engineered endings, Mr. Truth. I suppose people such as yourself enjoy tying things into nice, neat little packages. Damn that old messy reality -- things like the Patriots also missing a few pieces to their puzzle...the fact that it was the third game in four days, the players having been handed their in Seattle the night before. And they were, I'm sure, trying to slow the game down using those dreaded Latin stall tactics.

We should count ourselves so lucky to have tied! I'm sorry we weren't what you expected. The face of m just isn't what it used to be, gol-dangit. If only we could embrace friendly socialism, get a health card and take our rightful place in the Blessed Queue for our heart transplants. Damn, but we're an unruly bunch!

If only we could accept who we are in comparison, allow such a vastly superior team to roll over us as the nickname suggests, not even caring to wonder why we should trust any man who deigns to tell us The Truth!

By the way, it should read "the face of m," or am I being edited?

Speaking of foul language, I seem to remember an incident last season where your coach was heard shouting obscenities to the El Paso team for being "dirty, diving, cheating little so-and-sos" that was clearly heard by lots of people and their children. I guess it's a curse on all three sides of our border, right?

I guess I am being edited.

Anyway, it's those people who had a run in Germany back in the 30's and 40's and also ran Spain and Portugal and Italy for awhile then, too.

And let's not forget the present day USA.

You're right about your team having every right to be slow and tired. That's a very valid point. Makes the 'Caps performance and result even more shameful.

As for our coach's outburst last year, well I never cared much for that coach but to be fair that was very UNusual for him while for your team it is certainly the norm. Still, in regards to your team he spoke The Truth as everyone in the league knows it, whereas Llamas knows nothing of my dear sweet mum.

Just thought I'd add that Llamas was good humoured with the group of fans that were standing around me, mainly because we were cracking some pretty good jokes, which made him laugh. I was unaware of his cursing, which wouldn't bother me anyway, as the southside is adults only this season. I also do remember previous games where El Paso had really put on some poor sportmanship displays here, I do recall an El Paso defender yelling (cursing) at the Truth and grabbing at his own privates in some sort of insulting gesture as well at one time. That would probably make on dislike a club for a while.

Vox, I don't know why you are being edited. I have nothing to do with it. If anyone is ever curious if I edit your post just look for the "edited by" message at the bottom of the post. Also, I'll usually leave a message as to why I edited.

Time to wrap it up:

Whitecapssoccer.com Match Report

canada.com: Late goal lifts El Paso into 1-1 tie with Vancouver in A-League soccer

Check out the Patriots new away kits. Pic courtesy of Vancouver Sun
[img]http://media.canada.com/scripts/locate.asp?id=c9a9c85a-0e97-4772-b1b3-216156646567[/img]
Caption: Whitecaps' Jason Jordon (26) scuffles for the ball with Patriots' Federico Juarez during first half action at Swangard Stadium.

Vancouver Sun: Troubled \'Caps tie Patriots .

Finally,
Krammerhead\'s Match Report
Also check out some of the picks K-man took from the Southside. One has a good shot of the new away kit. Patriots, will you guys sell me one?

Of course all El Paso fans know that in the VS's picture it is Guillermo MacFarlane who appears with the Cap's #26. Speaking of the VS, why did they refer to the 'Caps as "troubled"? Did I miss something.

Ok nevermind just read the story on the owner. I think that is a pretty messed up thing for him to do.

Didn't someone say attendance was at around 4,000? Stories are reporting around 2,000.

Krammerhead, the incident I refer to happened in the North end and he made said comments as I sat among the children with a lady friend at the field edge of the track ... ironically just before they scored the tie goal.

I remember the ball-grabber you refer to a couple of seasons ago. He did this after cursing the referee and making generally rude gestures which earned him a yellow card - should have been a red but I believe El Pepso were already a man short due to a red card and were losing by a good margin late in the game. Typical El Pepso act.

Then in response to my kind suggestions to play fair and respect the official he grabbed his privates and pointed to them and then to me, seeming to say "I wish I had the balls to act in a dignified manner such as your esteemed self."

Then too I was standing with children among the NorthSiders and visiting Bagpipe contingent. We were so taken aback by the player's mature self-deprecation that we cheered him accordingly which warmed his heart so much he had further choice words deserving of a red card but the ref showed mercy on mentally deficient that night.

Poor mum. And on Mother's Day, no less. Are you certain she wasn't guilty of at least something? As a voting member of the Bush-tapo I'm always interested in familial dirt. Surely Chretien's got something in his closet -- the man's French.

Just read the report from the Sun...Love to hear when owners say buy up and maybe we'll be around. That's unfortunate, because, all kidding aside, the Caps have to have some of the most passionate fans around.

paid attendance was 2896, with maybe afew hundred fans more nudging attendance over 3000.

Anyway, the Whitecaps threatened to dismantle the Pats who couldn't dive because they were so little, that they just floated away.

The first corner of the game, on the only shot of the half, produced an outstanding equalizer produced from 30 minutes of boredom by both sides, which I'm sure all the Whitecaps saw as they were all standing around watching it's majesty.

No question it's a good result for El Paso. Severly outclassed in every sense, to take a point on the road is worthy of congratulations and the end of game celebrations were justified. If Vancouver could decide to shoot on the goal and not 3 metres over it...whatever...woulda, coulda...

And Vox?? Socialism?? Stand in line for heart transplants? Have you even been North of Rte 70? Maybe way up north to Denver? Yep...lots of legitimacy from a Texan talking international politics these days. You know we're developing a nuclear powered snowball that we'll fire on Texas from bullet proof igloos smuggled into Minnesota, don't you?

You are correct the picture shows MacFarlane, although Juarez is the number 12 just behind....both those guys were in the top 2 or 3 for the Patriots last night.

My mistake...the attendance WAS 2800, for some stupid reason I could have sworn I heard 4000......wasn't paying attention....

I personally thought the Patriots played OK considering their road trip......

and finally, what kind of trashpeddler are you to accuse someone's mom of warranting profanity from some hack? And on Mother's Day?

Hardly sporting...

Support your team (they're lucky to have you...) but you don't have to sink to condone vulgar behaviour either.

If any of you have been catching the A-League games on Fox on Friday night, especially last Friday, you'll keep hearing them say how much better the league is because of the influx of former MLS stars. Yet, I've heard and have seen on a couple of occassions that many don't seem to be doing anything all that great except act like "golden" children. Many of the league's "old timers" are still outplaying them.

Interesting comment made burried deep in all the trash talking: "no EP forward who can go forward and hold the ball." I've heard that complaint about another team recently by someone close to me. Seems like Basic Soccer 1A but it also seems to escape many players and even coaches.

The results so far show that EP does seem to have a big problem up front. Sure wish I knew where a forward willing to give his all was located.

LOL!
I knew it.........
I can always count on you jfl.

Chuwy, thanks for mentioning my pics. I has a bit of a problem with my photos being too high resolution and was once again shut down by tripod for exceeding their bandwidth limits. I resized the photos and added more. You might want to check them out.

http://newheads.tripod.com/swangardsouth/

No problem K-man.
You have a good site there man, keep it up.

Krammerhead the photos were great! Thanks. Do you have any others and if so where could I go to view them?

Thanks for the compliment chuwy. Not many people visit it, 3100 hits last season before my free counter disappeared.

Texans, I don't have anymore pictures anywhere, except on my hard drive. Tripod has new bandwidth rules in order to make people switch to their pay webhosting, so I am limited in the amount of photos I can use. The rest are mostly the same anyway, there really isn't many different photos you can take standing behind the net.

From Whitecapsfan: "And Vox?? Socialism?? Stand in line for heart transplants? Have you even been North of Rte 70? Maybe way up north to Denver? Yep...lots of legitimacy from a Texan talking international politics these days. You know we're developing a nuclear powered snowball that we'll fire on Texas from bullet proof igloos smuggled into Minnesota, don't you?"

Well, there is that Texan in the White House who does a fair job of talking international politics these days...

I have been as far north as Muskegon, MI, which is as far as would ever want to go. We have enough of a problem with white powder on our end of the border to want to slug through the kind that makes you cold.

And send on those nuclear-powered snowballs! They're no match for our deadly Salsa-Ray, powered by a good upper valley jalapeno pepper! We're smuggling them north via camouflaged '79 Cadillac Eldorados with bull's horns bolted to the front grille.

As for Llamas' words for The (ahem) Truth, I'm not condoning them. I was merely pointing out that it seems Mr. Pot is placing a collect call for Mr. Kettle.

Well where I come from a goalie with the ball in his hands can knock a guy in the back of the head and not give up a PK! A yellow MAYBE but where does the PK come into play? What the hell is that about? What kind of whiny-*** b/s west coast crap is that?

NO player can throw a clear elbow in anger at another player without being booked/ejected. Llamas should have been ejected as well, Buck.

Vox: Salsa-Ray?? Bring that badboy on, Jefe. Won't be able to look at another 79 El Dorado now...

BY CHEWY EARLIER:
You've seen those cartoons etc. showing somebody on side of road with sign reading along this line:

"Will score goals for food"

They don't realize the bargain they could get with little effort and no risk.

We are all entitled to our opinions. For those of us in El Paso we did not see the game so it would be very hard for us to comment on the actions of the Patriot players. I do have one question of the Whitecap fans who were there. Is "The Truth" a good representation of your fans? I have been to Vancouver once and found the people really nice. The Truth seems a little out of place. Another question, can us, the fans of El Paso change the style of play that the Patriots play? Why accuse the fans and the city of El Paso? I do not get it.