David Beckham got shouted at and rained on all night. Was rocking this cool Jesus Christ Superstar haircut. At one point later on in the match he just sorta flipped out—screaming, arms failing—when he wasn't getting the ball or getting his way or something. Just David Beckham flipping out in the rain. Looked awesome.

We lost. Seattle 0, Los Angeles 1.

<img src=”https://media1.fdncms.com/stranger/imager/u/large/23788145/1300262038-beckhamsounders.jpg” alt=”David Beckham got shouted at and rained on all night. Was rocking this cool Jesus Christ Superstar haircut. At one point when it was raining heavily he just sorta flipped out—screaming, arms failing—when he wasnt getting the ball or getting his way or something. Just David Beckham flipping out in the rain. Looked awesome.” title=”David Beckham got shouted at and rained on all night. Was rocking this cool Jesus Christ Superstar haircut. At one point when it was raining heavily he just sorta flipped out—screaming, arms failing—when he wasnt getting the ball or getting his way or something. Just David Beckham flipping out in the rain. Looked awesome.” width=”500″ height=”332″ />
  • David Beckham got shouted at and rained on all night. Was rocking this cool Jesus Christ Superstar haircut. At one point when it was raining heavily he just sorta flipped out—screaming, arms failing—when he wasnt getting the ball or getting his way or something. Just David Beckham flipping out in the rain. Looked awesome.
Rained and rained and rained. Players kept slipping and sliding into each other and across the pitch. At one point, Gonzalez just completely ate shit while racing toward the goal with the ball.
  • Rained and rained and rained. Players kept slipping and sliding into each other and across the pitch. At one point, Gonzalez just completely ate shit while racing toward the goal with the ball.
<img src=”https://media2.fdncms.com/stranger/imager/u/large/23788146/1300262312-goalsounders.jpg” alt=”This is how excited the fans in the fan section looked right after L.A. scored.” title=”This is how excited the fans in the fan section looked right after L.A. scored.” width=”500″ height=”332″ />
  • This is how excited the fans in the fan section looked right after L.A. scored.
<img src=”https://media1.fdncms.com/stranger/imager/u/large/23788151/1300263242-parkesounders.jpg” alt=”Seattle defender Jeff Parke was doing some entertaining stuff with the ball, faking guys out, stealing it, bouncing it on his head. Also, falling occasionally.” title=”Seattle defender Jeff Parke was doing some entertaining stuff with the ball, faking guys out, stealing it, bouncing it on his head. Also, falling occasionally.” width=”500″ height=”332″ />
  • Seattle defender Jeff Parke was doing some entertaining stuff with the ball, faking guys out, stealing it, bouncing it on his head. Also, falling occasionally.
Some guy in the front row takes off his shirt and pretend buttfucks his shirted friend. I didn't really follow. Because we were getting fucked?
  • Some guy in the front row takes off his shirt and pretend buttfucks his shirted friend. I didn’t really follow. Because we were getting fucked?
Beckham bending.
  • Beckham bending.

Christopher Frizzelle was The Stranger's print editor, and first joined the staff in 2003. He was the editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2016, and edited the story by Eli Sanders that won a 2012 Pulitzer...

24 replies on “Six Photos from the Sounders Match Last Night”

  2. This post pretty much sums up the Stranger: Pretend to be a media outlet, get on-field/VIP access to events, goof on them in print/online to justify it.

  4. If a defender for my team was doing ANYTHING creative I would drop him like a bad habit. Good to see Seattle turns out for a real sport though.

  6. We outplayed them all night but they got lucky and kept our balls out somehow. Once they scored they retreated and played Galaxy style, eight men in the box. I don’t think Beckham touched the ball in the second half except on set pieces; Donovan either. My pick for man of the match: Hurtado, welcome back.

    I know Portland is our special new rival but god DAMN I hate the Galaxy. I hope their plane crashes.

  7. Helloooooo, middle class white people — great photo of the crowd! Pretty much sums it up. That’s the most homogenous group sports fans I ever did see.

  8. @7: Oh no, Sounders fans are cool! Not like those neanderthal, beer-swilling fans of other professional sports teams that the hipsters used to make fun of until it was decided that watching sports was OK — as long as it was a cool, European sport.

  9. @8 Eat shit and die. FIFA has 208 members. How many countries play gridiron football? Oh, right — one. OK, Canada too, though technically they’re a different code. It’s not your beer swilling that bothers me, it’s your fucking mud brain that’s never heard of places called “Asia”, “Africa”, or “Latin America”, where something like a billion people play soccer and even more watch it. Fucking pig-ignorant dipshit. Chinga a tu madre, pinche pendejo.

  11. @Fnarf. Great point. Its so stupid that people like american football. None of them know anything about the outside world! Don’t stop until everyone likes soccer.

  12. @9: Wow, forget your meds this morning?

    The point is that commenters on Slog did nothing but bash people who would “waste” their time following the Sonics, Mariners and Seahawks — because they had more high-brow things to do than watch overpaid professional athletes play in expensive stadiums we paid for. But somehow watching overpaid professional athletes play soccer in an expensive stadium we paid for is now hip.

    Apparently that’s because it’s a cool, *international* sport.

    (And not to turn it into a pissing match, but I can guarantee I’ve traveled to more countries than you.)

  15. @12, listen up, cuntbreath: no one around here’s been “bashing” fans of the Seahawks and Mariners. The bashing has been entirely in the other direction. Well, fuck you. If you don’t like it, don’t watch it. But if you want to shit on us, we will rain down so much shit on you in return you’ll think you’re in your mother’s underpants.

    As if Qwest isn’t packed to the rafters with white people when the Seahawks play as well. As if football wasn’t the most Republican of sports. As if the obese and the mentally defective, the Tea Party and the Jesus-dependent didn’t flock to NFL, waddling in with your blankets and cushions and your 58-inch-waist mom jeans and your American flag jackets. That’s fine; enjoy your game; you’re not hurting anyone — except of course the players, most of whom will be dead at fifty with hollowed out brain pans. You do what you like.

    And we’ll do what we like, all right? Yes, we’ve heard all your insults before. We get it. You don’t like soccer. Well, we don’t like you. No one’s asking you to watch. No one gives a shit if you come or not. Fucking infected gob of a fuck bubble.

  18. @15: Nice faux outrage there.

    I enjoy soccer and the Sounders very much. I went to games at Memorial Stadium and even in Renton before it was cool.

    It’s a lot of their fake fans I can’t stand.

  19. Sounders salaries range from $40,000 to $1,300,000. Most in the $40,000-$100,000 range. Compared to other sports and how many games they play per season (34 not including play off or friendly matches) I would’t really say they are overpaid.

  20. @18, you mean fake fans like these?

    https://picasaweb.google.com/ECSPhotosBy&hellip;

    You won’t see that at a Seahawks or Mariners game, or any other MLS team for that matter. That thing is covering THREE SECTIONS. It took twenty guys just to carry it in and out of the stadium. Those flags in the back are double-height, 16 feet high. LEGENDARY.

    As for the rest, they’re watching a game because they like it. What’s your fucking problem? Are you some kind of arbiter of cool? Of what’s “real”?

    Dude, I’m getting a venereal disease from your mom RIGHT THIS MINUTE. That’s how real I am, mother.

  22. Wow are there people under that banner? If so I bet they’re relieved that they don’t have to pretend to watch the game anymore. Also I think there’s something wrong with the chess piece laying down. That logo doesn’t say Sounders.

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