MLS Wins and Losses: Week 21
Jul28

MLS Wins and Losses: Week 21

As always, you can listen to the increasingly odd audio version of this as part of this week’s Vocal  Minority Podcast, out later this week. Mmmm, Andrea Pirlo made his debut for New York, mmmm, he was majestic out there, a man amongst boys, so smooth, so cultured, clearly man of the match, mmmmmm. That’s all you need to know, mmmmm back to you Kristin.  I kid, but sadly that was the tone taken by many despite there being...

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MLS Wins and Losses: Week 20.
Jul21

MLS Wins and Losses: Week 20.

As always, this will be available in listening form later in the week as part of the Vocal Minority podcast Steven Gerrard is here and he played and he scored a goal and squuuueeeeee! that’s all that counts this week, back to you Kristin.  I kid of course, but yes, the big thing this week was the official MLS debut of Steven bloody Gerrard, and for a while it went swimmingly, Quincy Amarikwa scoring twice to put the quakes up...

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MLS Wins and Losses: Week 17
Jul07

MLS Wins and Losses: Week 17

With some new big signings hogging the limelight, it was some of the already existing stars of MLS who made the difference this week, for better or worse, big goals, nasty tackles, they brought it all this week. It started on Friday in Seattle as the Sounders took on DC with Supporters Shield implications very much a part of it. Seattle won 1-0 thanks to an 88th minute Tyrone Mears goal, but the big moment was when DC’s Fabian...

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MLS Wins and Losses: Week 16
Jun30

MLS Wins and Losses: Week 16

As always, get this review with the usual smart arse interruptions and the actual sound clips for the interviews (Sigi Schmid, so rude, always eating while he talks) by listening to this week’s Vocal Minority Podcast, out Wednesday some time.  Grrrrrrrr. This week was Heineken rivalry week in MLS. take away the lame, sponsored branding of it and I really like the basic idea of having a lot of derby games played on the same...

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WWC 2015: Quarter Final Preview. Canada, and the tournament, need a win here.
Jun25

WWC 2015: Quarter Final Preview. Canada, and the tournament, need a win here.

The round of 16 is done, which had it’s share of drama and entertainment, though just the one real upset and not even one game going to extra time never mind penalties. Now it’s the quarter finals and things are getting serious, there are no weaker teams only here due to the 24 team expansion left over, no gimmies and plenty of reputations on the line, question marks to be answered, including for the tournament overall....

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