ugh...

Oct. 20th, 2013 09:44 am
winterbadger: (dc united)
Just watched the highlights of DC's last game of the season, Friday's match at Kansas City. Left me feeling a little sick. Shameful and incompetent giveaway for a SKC goal in the 7th minute, then several wasted opportunities to return, including a goal that a small child could have scored (but Jared Jeffrey couldn't make). There are a few players on this team I hope will be retained, but far, far more who are simply taking up space and pay that we need to find a much better alternative for. There are losing seasons, and then there are crashing the bottom out of the barrel seasons. This team found rock bottom and reached for the blasting caps. Ben needs to get authorization to start clearing the watch bill and finding some prime hands.

Now watching highlights of Montreal v. Philly. Observations from the first half: the Cartographer (Justin Mapp, who I remember coming into DCU as a young kid) now has less hair than I do. And Conor Casey's belly is almost as big as mine. But he can run a hell of a lot faster than I can.
winterbadger: (bugger!)
A new low in bogosity towards MLS fans.

and another piece on the outrageous attack on New England Revolution fans by their stadium's security force

I don't begin to understand what the thinking behind this move was, but it strikes me as  foolish, short-sighted, and destructive. Supporters are the bread and butter of a sports franchise, the people who do the work of the sales and marketing staff for them, who voluntarily put their time, effort, and money behind encouraging, celebrating, and advertising the commercial product that is a sports team. There are always going to be small points of friction, but to willfully go out of your way to antagonize and harass the people who literally pay your salary seems simply ridiculous on the face of it.
winterbadger: (glass_standrew)
This almost merits being posted to [livejournal.com profile] northwatfordgap

from MLSnet.com

"And while the [US top division, Major League Soccer (MLS),] continues to build soccer-specific stadiums, it's unlikely MLS will follow the [English Premier League's] model and have all-grass fields.

"In the United States some of the weather issues are a bit different," [MLS Dputy Commissioner Ivan] Gazidis said. "In an ideal world, we would all live in England where it always rains and there are lovely grass fields. But we don't live in that world."

Erm, some of us would prefer to live in Scotland, thank you! :-)
winterbadger: (dc united)
MLS announcs changes for its upcoming season

Interesting collection of changes, some obviously (IMO) made to ape EPL practices so as to make it a more soccer-snob-friendly product (or, if you are less cynical, to make it a more professional-appearing product :-). Others to simply make it more professional.

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