I've been a bit facepalm since I read the NASL press release stating they hired "renowned soccer
journalist and blogger" Kartik Krishnaiyer to be their director of communications. My first
reaction was, man, I hope he stops blogging and podcasting, and thankfully, that appears to be the
case.
Personally, I've read very little of his work, but I wasn't all that impressed with what I did
read.
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1) The 2010 adidas MLS Catalog was leaked this week, and it's chock full of sweet gear. And the
cover features this photo of Frankie's goal from the '08 Cup.
On an unrelated note, if anyone wants to buy me that hat I'll be your best friend.
2) For all of you that are following the single entity/labor negotiations argument going on this
off season, Fake Sigi has one of the best points of veiw on the whole thing including this piece on
why MLS' single table is the bees knees.
There was really only one football story this weekend - the distressing attack on the Togo team by
rebels in a disputed part of Angola. Nearly 72 hours have passed since the incident rocked African
football. It took far less time for the world's press and the blogosphere to start weighing up the
implications of the attack for the 2010 World Cup.
The Guardian and many other outlets are reporting that Togo's request to rejoin the African Cup of
Nations has been rejected by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The team's bus was
machine-gunned by terrorists on Friday; three people in their convey were murdered by the
terrorists operating under the guise of acting as Angolese rebels.
For those that thought that Seattle was running a 4-4-2, it was Steve Zakuani that they found
the most frustrating. Even if you thought that they ran the diamond midfield, Zakuani frustrated.
Most of the frustration was centered on his lack of defensive efforts. Later the frustrations would
focus on his lack of "finishing" skill.
The Guardian has been rattling off story after story on the Glazer debt, giving me an
image of a press room chock full of Shakespearean monkeys rattling away feverishly at their
keyboards. And, whilst some of them have gotten repetitive, quite a few of them have been good
reads.
The blogosphere isn't far behind though, and there is some good material going around over there
too.
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Arsene Wenger came out and apologized for the mistimed tackle by William Gallas. How many
managers do that!? He also gave a very objective analysis of that particular incident and quite a
few others from the two games with Bolton. But if you read reports covering the press conference,
most of the headlines are saying "Angry Wenger" or "Wenger Hits Out" and things like that.
I see a good trend forming on the blogosphere: calling attention to goal decisions that would
benefit from instant replay.
Keep 'em coming, I say.
This isn't the way I wanted to get back to blogging about WPS, not at all. I get sick to my stomach
when I see this:
"WPS 2009 Regular Season Champions - WPS discontinues operations of Los Angeles Sol - Dispersal
draft scheduled for next week."
There's a lot of shock and outrage in the blogosphere, from Dan's screed, to Bill's comment in Andy
Meade's post (which is somewhat hopefully in itself).
