Winners
BRIAN McBRIDE scored Fulham's third goal, one of three Fulham goals in overtime, in a 4-2 win over Nottingham Forest that sends the Cottagers into the quarterfinals of the English Carling League Cup. McBride entered the game at the 80th minute mark with Fulham down 1-0. Tomasz Radzinski's first of two goals sent the game into overtime. With defender Nottingham defender Wes Morgan draped around him, McBride fell while swiveling around before shooting the ball into the goal with his right foot while on the ground. Fellow American Carlos Bocanegra, who played the full 120 minutes, failed to clear the ball before Forest's first goal.
TIM HOWARD, who hasn't played a league game since early September, was back in goal for Manchester United as it defeated Crystal Palace, 2-0, in the fourth round of the Carling League Cup. Fellow American JONATHAN SPECTOR entered the game for the last 11 minutes.
ZAK WHITBREAD, former U.S. U-20 left back, played the full 90 minutes for Liverpool in its 2-0 win over Middlesbrough in the Carling League Cup. The 21-year-old's one previous appearance in official competition came in an earlier round League Cup win over Millwall. On Tuesday, 20-year-old, DANIEL KARBASSIYOON helped Arsenal reach the quarterfinals with a 3-0 win over Everton and Watford's American JAY DEMERIT played five minutes in its 5-2
win over Southampton.
The UNITED STATES opened play in the Under-19 Women's World Championship with a 3-0 victory over South Korea Thursday in front of almost 10,000 fans at Sarakul Stadium in Phuket, Thailand. Angie Woznuk and Amy Rodriguez scored in the first half just two minutes apart and Sheree Gray added a clinching goal in the 72nd minute.
Losers
The METROSTARS' HARRISON STADIUM PROJECT was declared "dead" by New Jersey Senate president and soon to be acting governor Richard Codey because Hudson County had refused to issue some $90 million in bonds. Peter Higgins, director of the Harrison Redevelopment Authority, however, called it a temporary setback and said the city is still pursing a $120 million, 25,000-seat stadium for the MetroStars, who are also in talks regarding a new stadium in East Rutherford.
The Bulgarian soccer federation has suspended indefinitely the REFEREE and his three assistants, who overlooked CSKA's Stoiko Sakaliev's hand ball to set up a goal in a 2-2 tie with Marek Dupnitsa. Referee Commission President Vassil Zhechev said the number of games the officials will be banned for could be "three, 30, 300 or 3,000.