"Los Angeles drew 66,237 for its 5-4 victory at the Red Bulls two years ago, the largest soccer crowd at Giants Stadium for a U.S. league game in 27 years. Attendance dropped to 46,754 for last year’s 2-2 tie and fell by 50 percent to 23,238 Thursday. Eleven of 36 sections in lower deck were covered with navy tarp, and there were only a handful of people in the second deck and none at all in the third."
Can you spot in discrepancies in this article by the Associated Press' Ronald Blum? (L.A. lost the game two years ago.)
Did you know that 23,000 is "50 percent" of 46,000? (Yes.)
And who says the AP has an anti-soccer bias? (I do.)
Reuters, AFP and other wire services strangely haven't put out the following items in the past week:
Man stabbed for coming home late from soccer match
Study: 42 deaths linked to soccer in Brazil
