MLS Wins and Losses: Week 23
As always, catch the audio version of all this in the Vocal Minority Podcast, coming out later this week. Giovanni Dos Santos is here and he’s playing and ai ai ai and sit down everyone, Chad’s scored already. Yes Chad Barrett opened the scoring within the first minute of what would generally be a big glamour match up between Seattle and LA. Unfortunately he then turned to run back to the halfway line and pulled his...
It’s Bezness time: Creavalle out, Herculez Gomez in!
Have you been looking on with envy at all the other MLS clubs recently as they’ve added exciting new players? Been trying to make yourself feel better by forcing yourself to think ‘we did our big business at the start of the season, we’ve had an entire half season of our guys already! and hey we got Kantari already, that counts right?’? Still feeling a bit of withdrawal though, craving that hit of getting...
MLS Wins and Losses: Week 22
As always if you’ve got no time for this reading thing, you can hear this all as part of this week’s Vocal Minority Podcast, available soon in all fine podcast storing places. Frank Lampard’s here and finally playing but no-one really cares so let’s move on and right into a massively entertaining and goal filled week in MLS. Saturday saw 39 goals, thus breaking the record for goals on a single day in MLS!...
The South Couch Report: New England Revolution vs Toronto FC
Your regular South Couch updater Mark is absent so Duncan again takes the reins from his East Side Couch. Last time this happened was against new England as well, Mark’s clearly terrified of the the Gillette Stadium pitch. Injuries, suspensions and 11 goals conceded in our last 3 away games, that’s the backdrop here, what exactly will Greg Vanney do with it. Will we see the 3-5-2 given another run out or will it be time...
In praise of Vanney and the 3-5-2.
When TFC’s lineup was announced last Saturday, and announced as a 3-5-2, there was a lot of consternation and snark from some people on twitter (hi!) with many predicting doom and some (hello!) questioning whether the change was forced on Greg Vanney due to the fact he only had one healthy and competent full back at his disposal so the 4-4-2 had to be abandoned. Surely this wouldn’t end well. There was plenty of evidence,...