Rapids TSII: Waiting on Gomez…

I must thank Steve Goff for this.  As usual, I did nothing…except type.  And do some copying and pasting.  Oh, and I hit the little link icon.
Anyway, according to the latest from the Soccer Insider, the question of whether the Colorado Rapids get Christian Gomez is in the player’s hands.  What do I think?  Let’s [...]

Johnston: Thought Today Was Canada’s April Fool’s Day For a Second

So, I check MLS Rumors, as I often do, and there’s this story about Toronto FC’s Mo Johnston resigning from head coaching duties.
Down at the bottom of the post, there’s a link saying “Here’s confirmation.” That takes me to another blog, one I don’t know at all. So, I consider for a second [...]

Crew TSII: And Then He Kicked ‘Em in the Nuts…

Weird day in Columbus. As of, let’s see, 7:07 a.m. the Columbus Crew had reached an agreement with Scotland’s Celtic FC on a transfer fee for Polish forward Maciej Zurawski. And there was some rejoicing, perhaps a little apprehension about spending so much money on one player, etc.
By 1:06 p.m. a post by [...]

EPL Window Shut – A Recap, Winners, Losers, Spenders…

Most EPL followers are sitting here bummed that there were no real high-profile moves in the January transfer window. No Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid. No David Villa to Liverpool. Hell, Manchester United didn’t even make one single move. But why should they?
Somehow, $300 million were spent on new players by EPL clubs, breaking the [...]

MLS Philly: It’s Much More than a Stadium

“It’s like the people from the Publishers Clearing House, and they’ve come down here and they say: ‘You know what? You just won half a billion dollars.’ I’m ready to put a shovel in the ground.
That’s Chester Mayor Wendell Butler’s intake on receiving the funding from the state that they needed to move one step [...]

African Nations Cup Quarterfinals Set: Some EPL Clubs Sigh with Relief

A couple big absences in the second round – Morocco, Mali, and Senegal. This means good things for some EPL clubs. Senegal’s Diomansy Kamara is going to be returning to a very different Fulham as his the whole frontline – which he is a part of – has been transformed. Kamara will now face off [...]