SOME THINGS ARE inevitable no matter what. Germany will win in a penalty shootout, England won’t and the United States will reach the final of the Gold Cup. It’s simple really.
And everything was going according to plan until last night.
For the first time in six tournaments, Jurgen Klinsmann’s US side were beaten in the semi-finals by Jamaica.
You have to go back to 2003 to find the last time it happened and in the thirteen editions since the CONCACAF tournament was re-named in 1991, the US had only failed to make the decider on three occasions.
Still, they lost 2-1 in Atlanta last night with Jamaica’s second goal an absolute peach of a free-kick.
It came courtesy of Giles Barnes, the London-born former Derby, West Brom and Doncaster player who currently turns out for MLS side Houston Dynamo.
