Footie Outing

The San Jose Earthquakes have been making an impressive run at the MLS playoffs for a 1st year expansion team. Therefore, a few friends and myself (Mosswood FC!) made the trip to Buckshaw Stadium to support.
Unfortunately, the date we got tickets for, 10/11, turned out to be an international fixture date. This wouldn't affect SJ but it did mean Sacha Kljesten would not be on the Chivas USA squad playing SJ. I hoped this would help translate the match into a win for SJ.

We would need to get a bite to eat before the match and luckily found out about Loving Hut. Loving Hut is a vegan restaurant in the suburban wasteland of Milpitas. We gorged ourselves on decent food served to us by super nice and friendly folks.
Apparently, Loving Hut also has locations in SF and Palo Alto.

SJ had a big electronic screen announcing their newly formed partnership with Tottenham Hotspurs. Why anyone would want a partnership with them as they possibly fight to stave off Premiership relegation is anyone's guess. As an Arsenal supporter, it certainly makes it more difficult for me to get behind SJ. At two different spots, SJ brought out Tottenham bigwigs which we booed... Well, I booed and Neel booed, hollered, and screamed obscenities at. Our section was confused as to what anyone could have against these men that they surely had never heard of.
The game was mediocre. Chivas definitely had size on their side. SJ just can't seem to pass the ball and that has been an issue every time I have seen them. SJ does have a few players which I see coming into their own with the squad (Salinas, O'Brien, and of course Huckerby).
Unfortunately, the entire experience was marred by the crowd. It seems like every Quakes game I attend, I am surrounded by annoying children who want nothing to do with the sport of football. I had constant shouting about fuckin cotton candy and hot chocolate in my ears while these little boys got lectured to by their father and put their feet on Neel's jacket! They were awfully close to getting an earful from us, the Spanish-speaking Chivas fans who they mocked, or anyone else in the section. I hate the Alexi Lawless model of fan attendence that encourages the family outing of people uninterested in the game itself.

In the end, Chivas won 1-0.
Big thanx to Mike for driving us and dropping gems about HC history along the way. Watch out for Mosswood FC starting our USL club to best the Quakes!