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Major League Soccer & International Soccer Smolderings - 5/26: MLS Scores, USOC, DC United Stadium Site, Lionel Messi, FIFA, Clarence Seedorf & More
The Smolderings have been piling up high since we last posted an edition. The pile was so high, it has to be split up into two so it won't start a fire. MLS scores from last night, soccer news from around the globe and a bit of other sports bits are all after the jump. Chicago soccer news will...
Toronto - Vancouver Post-Game: May Contain Game-Related Content
This is one of those nights where it hardly seems to be worth talking about the game. The match was utterly dire, a bore of a scoreless draw between two clubs that could not possibly have cared less. The Whitecaps, playing predominantly a first team, came out like they had nothing to play for and...
Toronto - Vancouver Preview: It Doesn't Matter (Except That It Does)
The Voyageurs Cup is over. After the match tonight, Toronto FC will be presented with their justly-earned championship trophy even if they somehow contrive to lose this game by sixty. There's more of a chance of that than usual, given that Toronto has called up seven TFC Academy kids to at least...
A Brief Essay on Time-Wasting
Somewhat to my surprise, upon getting up this morning I discovered that a minor imbroglio has broken out over Marc Dos Santos and the Montreal Impact's flagrant time-wasting last night at Stade Saputo. Not merely "oh, that's annoying" like you hear every time a Jose Mourinho team gets a 1-0 lead,...
I'm Sorry, Did You Think We Were Good?
Gutted. Horrified. Infuriated. A whole bevy of emotions, each of them negative. Should I be pleased that we deserved the result we got, that there's no "you lucky skunks" 6-1 victory hanging over our head like the Sword of Damocles, that Toronto FC has won our national championship in...
Pride (In the Name of Footie)
What more revolting phrase is there than "playing for pride"? The mere use of it carries a host of implications more fit for the nineteenth century. "Oh, there's nothing on the line in this game, really, except pride! Bragging rights! That ephemeral athletic chivalry which compels a sportsman to...
The Draw Stings Like a Loss
I am emotionally drained and physically exhausted. I slump in an unfamiliar chair in North Vancouver, a nervous wreck devoid of intelligence or energy. It is eleven PM. I bought dinner from PetroCanada, because it's the sort of night when you want to buy dinner from a gas station at 11 PM, but it...
Expanding the Voyageurs Cup
I disagree with just about everything Duane Rollins writes at the 24th Minute. That's part of the reason I read his non-Toronto posts so attentively: it's good to see an opposing perspective argued passionately and intelligently. Keeps me on my toes. But today my attention is focused on his new...
Voyageurs Cup: Success is Still an Option
The Whitecaps grabbed a lucky point against the Impact last night, and I was totally good with that. Oh, Vancouver wasn't being completely pushed around. It wasn't that sort of lucky point, that Wigan-against-Arsenal lucky point. The Whitecaps were certainly the classier force for the first...
The Maple Leaf Forever Voyageurs Cup Preview
Everybody loves a preview article. It tells you nothing you didn't already know, takes up valuable minutes of your life you could spend learning a new language or spending time with your family, and at the end of it you'll disagree with whatever I wrote anyway. I don't know why writers, aside from...
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