You probably didn't get to watch every MLS match this weekend. That's what we're here for. Here's what you missed, while you were doing who knows what.
"STAY HUMBLE, YOUNG BUCK": New York Red Bulls 4-5 Chicago Fire earned itself a Game of the Year nomination on Saturday night following a crazy second half that saw six second half goals fly in, hat tricks for each of Bradley Wright-Phillips and Harry Shipp and one thinly veiled tweet from MLS veteran to a future star of the league. (WATCH HIGHLIGHTS HERE.)
Following the game, Shipp, fresh off his first professional hat trick (and later to be named MLS Player of the Week), decided to take a fairly tame, innocent dig at Red Bulls fans on Twitter. The tweet by Shipp has since been deleted, but not soon enough to avoid the ire of the Red Bulls midfielder Dax McCarty.
FRUSTRATIONS ABOUND IN MONTREAL: Sporting Kansas City really turned the screws on the Montreal Impact on Saturday afternoon, to the tune of not only a resounding 3-0 victory — this coming on the back of a 4-0 thrashing of the Quebec side three weeks ago — but also a whole slew of MLS record-breaking statistics on the day (READ HERE).
After the game, Impact owner Joey Saputo was none too happy with his team's performance or the current direction of the club, taking to Twitter to share his frustrations and promise steps will be taken to reverse the club's fortunes.
Was Saputo simply responding to the ire of fans inside Stade Saputo on Saturday, though?
Translation: The crowd is chanting "Schällibaum."
MLS FANS REMEMBERING THEIR OWN: The tributes for original Sons of Ben member Eric Shertz have been anything but lacking in number and respect over the last three weekend of MLS play.
On Saturday, the next in a long line of tributes to Shertz came at a most meaningful time, during the Philadelphia Union's match against D.C. United, 20:10 having passed on the game clock. 20 minutes, 10 seconds signifying the Union's first year in Major League Soccer — 2010.
