It was a great game. I thought the US played very well against a very good team. I don't understand the apparent personal animosity aimed at Coby Jones. The one nasty foul that got the Mexican player sent off was certainly ugly - but prior to that Jones had been the target of a couple of hard fouls that seemed to have no purpose except to hurt him. What was that all about? If it was just frustration, why take it out only on Jones?

I am not so concerned about the missed hand ball - it was almost incidental (it would have bounced off one of the heads if not the hand - and Freidel was right behind anyway). There was a missed foul or two, and gamesmanship fouls that were called - so one more didn't make much difference. Even if the call had been made a PK awarded, and the PK scored - the result would have been the same.