From Steven Goff - Jaime hates the haters: Commenting on observers who have been saying United is not going to win this series, the usually mild-mannered Bolivian said: "Those people are losers. That's just like any sport. When you are on top of your game, everything is good. When you step down, they keep talking all [...] Click to continue reading...

Wow. One for four, and that one I thought would be a goalfest. Where did it all go wrong? Click to continue reading...

Now freaking Reuters has a story on that clown Buggy Drimson yammering about MLS hooliganism. What does he do, go around threatenting to beat you up if you don't write about him? (Yeah, I'm writing about him, but no one reading this is stupid enough to go buy his book.) If it [...] Click to continue reading...

I'll be away from the blog for the next few days, but not because I have taken the advice of BigSoccer's philosopher-king, and died in a fire. I and Mrs. I will be visiting my parents and their two enormous freaking dogs. The timing of this nearly backfired quite amusingly. Back in [...] Click to continue reading...

Two that might actually be useful. FEWEST INJURIES (at least as of a week ago - if a new report comes out today, I'll update) (oh, and factoring out "Probable" - "Probable" in playoffs mean "Absolute Certainty): 1. Houston - NONE REPORTED. Boy, that might be the biggest statistical oddity of the decade. 2. New [...] Click to continue reading...

Climbing the Ladder has been on this story since literally minute one, and now the highly improbable has been achieved. Chris Klein played more minutes than was actually possible. You didn't think the Galaxy gave him the team MVP award JUST as petulant self-defense of those criticizing Yallop and Lalas for giving away [...] Click to continue reading...

Women and children first: Greg Ryan's fired? After all he's done for women's soccer, and that glorious third place finish, you just TRASH him? I've got extremely little of productive value to add at this point, except to say that this should have done long, long before he got Wambach and Lilly to publicly [...] Click to continue reading...

Well, Eric has the link that will cure you. Bottom line it for you: CONCACAF is a sewer, and Jack Warner is the baby alligator that was flushed down the toilet ten years ago. Click to continue reading...

Okay, here's how I voted. One long boring post instead of fifteen short boring posts, shall we? Click to continue reading...

That would have been one of the best scoreless draws in the history of the game, and one we could have used to quell soccer critics forever. "See?" we could have said, "This is how the beautiful game transcends mere goals and stats." But then John Thorrington spoiled it all. Scoring the [...] Click to continue reading...

After about twenty minutes or so of Dallas-Kansas City, I had this post pretty much done in my head. It would have been along the lines of "I have rarely if ever seen a team so completely fail a gut-check in my entire life. I don't care how fun they were or how [...] Click to continue reading...

It wasn't the way he wanted to go out, but we'll never forget the cheers as he left the field. He only played a few times alongside David Beckham, but when he did, it was magic. Sadly, that brief flicker of hope wasn't meant to be. Oh, I know what the rumors [...] Click to continue reading...

Hey, everybody! Want to make YOUR opinion heard on who should win these MLS awards: 2007 Major League Soccer Awards Best XI Coach of the Year Comeback Player Defender of the Year MLS W.O.R.K.S. Fair Play Award Panasonic Goalkeeper of the Year Honda Most Valuable Player Newcomer of the Year Public Relations Award OSI Referee of the Year (Okulaja, Hall, Marrufo, or Prus [. Click to continue reading...

Hm. Interesting, Heath Pearce is taking the field these days for the US National Team, after saying he thought he was the team's best choice at right back - thereby questioning his coach and stabbing his teammates in the back. So, I guess that healing process is over. I never truly thought that nepotism [...] Click to continue reading...

There is nothing about this that isn't completely depressing. The whole thing has the air of a Soviet show-trial confession, or something you would sign after Suge Knight dangled you out of a twenty-story window. But if I had to pick the biggest downer, it would be the words "healing process," which Solo uses twice. [...] Click to continue reading...

(Ever have a pre-conceived notion, run the theory against existing facts, and come up with conclusions exactly the opposite of anything you would want to advocate in real life? I just did. Here's me, tinkering with the playoff format, and HATING what I discovered. Join me as I tamper in God's domain.) Click to continue reading...

Relive the carnage. We're jockeying for playoff position now, which to me is not that exciting. Now, if we had six teams instead of eight, Houston and Bizarro Chivas would be playing for a first-round bye, and we'd be spared the spectre of Colorado or Los Angeles getting into the playoffs yet again. Click to continue reading...

Usually "HOOLIGANS! CAN IT HAPPEN IN MLS?!" articles are published on April Fool's Day. But apparently Fox needed someone to make Jamie Trecker look like Grantland Freaking Rice, so we get Nick Webster. No link from me, but you could probably find it by running a Google search for "useless tools" or something. Bottles [...] Click to continue reading...

Sadly for Colorado fans, they won it for DC United. It doesn't seemed to have occurred to MLSnet yet, but the Rapids after-the-last minute win over the Future Relocated Franchise settled the issue. Congratulations once again to the team soccer fans around the country like to refer to as Pure Evil. This is the [...] Click to continue reading...

1. JUAN PABLO ANGEL // New York Red Bulls It took a while, but Angel's consistent attack and importance to his now playoff-bound club have impressed our voters enough to lift the former Premier Leaguer to top dog. Or bull, as the case may be. 2. LUCIANO EMILIO // D.C. [...] Click to continue reading...