Look, we all saw the play and we all have our opinions of both the decision to send off Rafael Ramos in last night’s match, and on Ted Unkel as a soccer referee in general. From the non-partisan soccer fan, Unkel ruined what could have turned into an entertaining match between two of the Eastern Conference’s contending teams.
What we got instead was a tedious 60+ minutes of one side laboriously trying to break through a team heavily fortified behind its bunker. It couldn’t have been a good advertisement for the MLS product. Orlando City fans hated it for obvious reasons.