Seattle will be MLS’ 15th team in 2009, and they already have a snazzy website up. It’s pretty smooth compared to the regular horrific MLS team sites, and you can already reserve a season ticket. Even the FAQ is available in 12 languages, including Afrikaans (?!). Update: the announcement that Drew Carey is involved is [...]
It’s the climax of the Major League Soccer season next Saturday, so this week we’ll be featuring MLS supporters all week on photo daily. We kick things off with my own Chicago Fire, and their giant megabandanera covering the Harlem End of Toyota Park.
Photo credit: Goldstone97 on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion photo pool.
Just as Seattle seems set to lose an NBA team, so it gains an MLS one. I’m not sure that’s an equal trade in the American sports arena yet, but it’s excellent news that the league will finally have a presence in the Pacific Northwest. It’s been rumoured for a while, but the Seattle [...]
Readers who like to characterise MLS as a Mickey Mouse league (don’t be shy about it, folks) have a little more ammunition today as the poor old Kansas City Wizards announced their home for the 2008 and 2009 seasons. From playing in the absurdly large Arrowhead Stadium (home to the NFL’s Chiefs), the [...]
I was at a bar full of Fire fans last night, watching my Chicago Fire beat DC United 3-2 on aggregate in the first round of the MLS Cup Playoffs. It was a thrilling and agonising game for both sets of fans, the Fire almost blowing a 3-0 aggregate lead, with DC’s late equaliser ruled [...]
As mentioned before, I moonlight (as if this were a paying job itself!) for the Chicago Sports Weekly. My column there this week is on the prospects for hooliganism in American soccer.
The piece was prompted by the new book from British ex-hooligan Dougie Brimson (known to frequent these parts himself), March of the Hooligans, [...]
The Earthquakes, MLS’ newest expansion team, will play at Santa Clara University, a little west of the center of San Jose. From the press release:
The San Jose Earthquakes will make upgrades to Buck Shaw Stadium beginning in mid-November. The project will include renovating the full-sized practice field, adding approximately 5,000 temporary seats which will increase [...]
Folks, I already listed some reading material for you earlier today, but I did want to quickly point to something else American soccer fans should take a look at — Sports Illustrated asks MLS Commissioner Don Garber many of the questions we’ve discussed ourselves here lately, about expansion, single table, designated players and so on. [...]
“You’re going home in a Cook County Ambulance!”. David Beckham received a warm welcome today from the Fire’s hardcore fans, Section 8, as the Englishman entered late in the game. As he came on, L.A. needed a goal and a win to advance to the playoffs and knock out Chicago, who needed just a [...]
