But in the spring of 2011, something counter-intuitive happened.
Transference and Counter transference happen.
A counter demonstration, that happened on Saturday in Berlin, drew more than 35,000 people to protest against racist and xenophobic views they believe are held by the organisation.
But if we expected a full-on assault on the New York goal, and for the Red Bulls solely to bunker and counter smartly, what happened instead, from both sides, was something subtler, and made for one of the more entertaining and absorbing 0-0 draws in recent MLS memory.
At the local mini-mart, where the staff and customers were all black, there was no awareness at all of the parade and counter-rally happening down the road.
So, the best-laid plans can go out the window when a counter-attack happens.
And as I watched him, I chuckled about the fact that the military jargon for "counter-intersurgency" happens to be "COIN".
Another of Crosby's songwriting contributions to the album, "Tribal Gathering", was, for many years, assumed to have been inspired by the Human Be-In: A Gathering Of Tribes, a counter-culture happening held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on January 12 , 1967
Each party implied that Ortiz might have been using a legal, over-the-counter supplement that happened to include a substance that would produce a positive test.
