GR Bruce Arena cares little for your opinion – for your opinion on statistics and analytics, for your opinion on Nigel de Jong, for your opinion on anything at all, really.
There will be those at the Galaxy who share his bullish views on De Jong and by sticking up for one of their own Arena may have stoked the fire that had been simmering in his players.
Visit any fan forum or Web site and you will read contradictory views on de Jong, Henry and career-threatening fouls, such as one by Chelsea's Michael Essien last Sunday.
On 26 minutes, the Manchester City winger doubled back twice on De Jong and Joris Mathijsen before he hit a shot that deflected wide off Johnny Heitinga.
An initial autopsy on Kim Jong Nam proved inconclusive, so authorities carried out a second one, incensing Pyongyang.
The biggest misgiving centers on Kim Jong Il himself.
46 min: City bring on De Jong for Johnson, presumably to allow Yaya Touré to get forward more.
That will be weighing on Kim Jong Il as in 2011 he grooms his third son to become heir to the most paranoid regime on Earth.As any business tycoon could tell him, transition from the second generation, which he is, to the third is the trickiest.
Last Saturday, reports emerged that Austin, Texas was among the places on Kim Jong Un's map of targets.
Among the reports that apparently irritated the North Koreans were one about a visit to a hospital in which Wingfield-Hayes said the facility looked staged, and another on Kim Jong Un that said: "What exactly he's done to deserve the title marshal is hard to say.
