Soccer is as boring as baseball or cricket.

Mass vomiting by players makes things more interesting.

Houston Dynamo head coach Dominic Kinnear said when he arrived for a game last week, he found out that not only was he missing the expected four players to international call-ups and two to injury, but that a flu-like illness had swept through the locker room.

“There were a lot of guys out there struggling physically and gutting it out,” said Calen Carr, who put in some time at right back late in the match. “You just look around man to man everyone’s giving it all they’ve got. Everybody put in a hard shift and we got rewarded.”