MLS Wins and Losses: Week 5
Apr06

MLS Wins and Losses: Week 5

Things are picking up ladies and gentlemen as despite a few low scoring games, this was another one of those MLS weeks that had a little bit of everything, some entertaining games, streaks approaching historic status, predictable meltdowns, continued heartbreak, a coach spat and much much more. It’s only right to start wins and losses with the biggest non winners of all, the Colorado Rapids as they take a serious run at the...

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MLS Wins and Losses. Week 4
Mar31

MLS Wins and Losses. Week 4

Week 4, an international break, time for everyone not actually an international to catch their breath and relax in the matching bye week. Of course I lie, why do that when instead we can get the generally sub standard fare we got this week without the superstars, highlighted by a bench with only 4 players on it and a game with 0 shots on goal. It’s been a rough start to the season so far really. We’ll start with the...

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Toronto FC sign Clement Simonin. MLS gonna MLS.
Mar27

Toronto FC sign Clement Simonin. MLS gonna MLS.

Given the Team Americaness of this year’s Toronto FC, international absences was always going to be something that would cause a problem sporadically throughout the year. Given the age and/or injury history of some of the more important TFC players, injuries were always going to be something that would randomly cause problems throughout the year. There’s a lot of money spent on a few key players, and a definite top heavy...

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MLS Wins and losses: Week 3
Mar24

MLS Wins and losses: Week 3

As always, you can get this in my fine dulcet Yorkshire-Canadian tones without all this reading and links clicking, with interruptions and digressions instead, you can listen to it in this weeks Vocal Minority Podcast, out later on this week.  Remember last week when goals and entertainment happened and all was good in MLS? Yeah, good times. This week? Well, not so much really, I’m left to rely on nasty tackles and fun quotes to...

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New Canada kit revealed. And other assorted Canadian bits and bobs.
Mar20

New Canada kit revealed. And other assorted Canadian bits and bobs.

It’s been a busy week for the CSA’s press people, with all sorts of National Teams related announcements. There was the latest squad release for the men’s upcoming friendlies against Guatemala and Puerto Rico, as well as the announcement of the Women’s team playing their final World Cup warm up game against England, for some reason in Hamilton. More on those down towards the bottom of the article, as instead we...

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