It felt good to be back watching Sounders football live again, but before I go on about the Colorado game something slightly different. Friday night saw Port Vale play in Everett. Vail are a side…
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Two weeks of football…
I’ve watched a lot of football in the last couple of weeks on FSN and ESPN (along with Wimbledon and the Tour de France), see a couple of weeks off work have a bright side…
Sounders 4 – Red Bull 2
I never had enough energy to head into Seattle for one of the Sounders games I had circled when the schedule came out. New York (even with out Henry) was one of the big ones…
A big day of footy…
Two years go Manchester United played Barcelona in the Stadio Olympico in Rome for the Champions League title. Barcelona won 2-0. This year the same two teams, fittingly the Premier League and La Liga champions,…
Sounders 1 – Kansas City 0
They left it late, and despite having a majority of the possession never really looked like much of a threat for most of the evening. Alonso had a great strike go over the bar in…
Sounders 1 – Timbers 1
There are a number of talking points that I’m sure will be picked up elsewhere from last nights game. The tifo from ECS was outstanding; there was no other way to describe it. Nine large…
Yep, it’s derby week – part II.
Saturday is one of the games a lot of people circled when the schedule was released on February; the build up has been exactly what one would expect from a derby game. Lots of sledging,…
A consistent message?
So a couple of weeks ago the league made it clear when it dropped a 10 game suspension and $5K fine on Brian Mullan for “that” tackle of Steve Zakuani that reckless challenges were going…
Now we have the answer…
I titled a post a few days ago “What sort of league is this?”, today the league office answered that. They are a league that wants to protect it’s players. The league delivered a message…
What sort of league is this?
Brian Mullen’s punishment for breaking Steve Zakuani’s leg could be announced today, tomorrow at the latest. Here is what I see, it was a full bloodied, red mist induced tackle. Looking at the replays Mullen…