I thank you for you diligence over the challenge. I went and made the corrections because I feel that my piece should be accurate. If you watch the play you can see that their is a bit of ambiguity due to two players tripping each other up on the play. However, I would like to state that in my career I have been by no means a writer of “puff pieces” if you would like to read a puff piece, please go to your nearest LiveJournal post by Joe Fan.

“The last match these two played against one another was a heated affair that saw Brian Ching sent off after a ruckus caused by a Ricardo Clark challenge on Galaxy midfielder David Beckham.”

I was thinking it was a pro-galaxy puff piece before that, but you loose all credibility when you’re going to get your facts this wrong. It was Beckham’s two-footed studs up tackle on Rico Clark (and not the first one of the match!) that was the foul, for which Becks finally gets a yellow. Ching was yelling that Beck’s should’ve seen red for that one, so Beckham gets up and starts yelling in Ching’s face. When another Galaxy player (Berthalter?) came to keep Becks from doing something stupid, the player managed to get his face about an inch from Ching’s, and Ching shoved him away with hands to the face. So when you make it sound like the Dynamo were bullying poor Becks and started the incident, you loose all credibility you might have had in my eyes.