tonight is the night. its the Guinness International Champions Cup final in miami!!! 

whats that? youve never heard of the Guinness International Champions Cup?

well, neither had i until i just googled it but it is one of the most important least important summer tournaments ever conceived as a warmup for football in the fall. yes, i said 'football'. deal with it, america!!

the matchup tonight between real madrid and chelsea, two of the teams with the deepest pockets and not coincidentally the deepest rosters, is particularly interesting because the former real madrid head coach burned his bridges in madrid and then scooted over to chelsea where he had formerly worn out his welcome but was brought back this summer with open arms and open checkbooks. 

9 o'clock on fox soccer channel, soon to be fox sports1 since they lost the rights to most of their soccer coverage. but thats a post for another day. (what a tease.)

very entertaining game mostly because so many real madrid players had a palpable animosity for their former head coach. the difference seemed to be that chelsea lack a top ten striker at the moment. they lost out on the two they were targeting that were transferred earlier this summer to the two new teams with arab oil money (both in the french league) trying to buy themselves into legitimacy, which is ironic as chelsea began that trend in 2003 when they were purchased by a russian oligarch.

also, the crowd of 68000 in miami were very engaged and vociferous which added to the feeling that more was at stake than some award that no one otherwise would care about.