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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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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Eastern Conference Preview, predictions.
Mar06

Eastern Conference Preview, predictions.

My Western Conference preview can be found here if you’re into all that hipster tree hugging and sunshine stuff. Now time to turn our attention to the East. It’s weird, before I put too much thought into it, I naturally thought, the west is way better, but there were a few teams that I don’t think are as good as I originally lazily assumed. Meanwhile in the East, there are some good teams, even the ones I had...

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Kit Nerd Corner : DC United away
Mar05

Kit Nerd Corner : DC United away

Disclaimer : I care and because I want to. DC United away   In a nutshell : new Adidas template that throws subtlety out the window Over the years, DC United has been bland with their away kit : just the inverse of the black kit.  A few years back, they blew minds by offering a 3rd kit that was red(!).  The world reeled in shock.  After parting ways with that one-off red kit, someone had the brainwave of only half bringing it...

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