Pre-game press roundup

Quakes fans will find out later today if that Crew Stadium magic travels well, or if Columbus is going to revert to the form that saw them finish next-to-last in the Eastern Conference last year. Here’s today’s media roundup:

- First off, there’s a brief mention of former NASL Quake Godfrey Ingram at icWales.co.uk, where they’re building up for the upcoming FA Cup final between Cardiff City and Portsmouth. Apparently, Ingram was almost transferred to Cardiff City in ‘82, but the club welshed on the deal. (Get it? A team from Wales welshed? OK, sorry — it probably is too early in the morning for wordplay.)

- Mercury News reporter Elliott Almond provides a splendid profile of Peguero Jean Philippe, who, as our colleague Jeff Carlisle first noted here, is projected to get his first start tonight.

- The Columbus Dispatch files this pregame report from the visiting team’s perspective.