You only really had one job, Sunil ...

You only really had one job, Sunil ...

There is this scene in the movie "A History of Violence" where William Hurt basically got the Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for how he handled his body language and facial expressions while delivering this line:

[after his men fail to kill Tom] Richie Cusack: "How do you #*(% that up?"

Sunil, the US Soccer community and many around the world are wondering that right now.

Bradley himself is not a bad choice per se. He's a solid coach with a winning track record and maybe it will work out like Lorenzo Romar has worked out for hoops at the UW. (He was the third or fourth choice after the UW was snubbed a couple times by big names fans really wanted, now he's everyone's favorite coach. Granted, I am a Coug, but it is a good example.) It is just not who we were looking for when the obvious choice was available. If it was Bradley as a possible interim then we should have played friendly matches in November with him.

Sunil, you really screwed up.Yes, we got what can be considered to be a good coach, but you really, really, really screwed this up. It really, was the only job you had when you became US Soccer chief.

There was this quote on Yahoo! from Sunil:

"It wasn't about control issues and sponsors. It wasn't about the number of Euros."

As my buddy Tim wrote to me via email, "OK, fool, then just what was the dispute about?"

I joked that I think it was that JK wanted to continue to live in California and Sunil wanted him to commute from Germany to try and recreate the magic ...

I would rather think it was something like that than to think US Soccer could be half as incompetent as this makes them appear to be.