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...
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...
MLS Wins and Losses: Week 13
In the words of noted student of the game Gregory J Vanney, MLS is all about streaks and that’s the theme running right through this week’s results in another busy week for MLS that saw pretty much all the Eastern Conference playoff contenders shit the bed and Baldomero Toledo really get his game going for the first time this year. We’ll start at the top of the East, where DC’s win over Chicago on Wednesday was...
MLS Wins and Losses: Week 13
As always you can catch this without all the links and videos and with terrible impersonations as part of the Vocal Minority Podcast, coming out later this week. The big winners this week were the Seattle Sounders. They beat Colorado midweek then took on the Red Bulls on Sunday. They trailed 1-0 before Marco Pappa equalised, and then with the game tied 1-1 in the 89th minute, enter the Chad, and what an impact he had, scoring the...
MLS Wins and Losses: Week 12
As always, you can get this in audio form with interruptions and terrible impersonations in each week’s Vocal Minority Podcast. For the second consecutive week, MLS got weird, especially in the East with the early front runners sputtering and the hopeless jokes now building win streaks, the sack race grinding to a halt. Starting in the East and New England had a particularly rough week, getting hammered 4-2 midweek by the...