As we draw closer to the 2012 MLS Draft, Major League Soccer is moving closer and closer to
trying to secure the services of the players who will make up its Generation adidas draft class,
and things are still very much in flux with less than a month to go before the draft.
MLS is expected to announce the first of its signings in the coming week, and offers have
already been sent out to most of the top targets.
If You Liked the Henry Shirt, You're Gonna Love 2012 Season Ticket Prices!There has been
plenty written and said about the 2012 Red Bulls season ticket debacle, with prices in some
midfield sections doubling or tripling. This for a team that has been downright putrid on the
pitch.
Our Twitter friend Boca107 is among the new pricing scheme victims (I shudder the think what it
would cost if I still sat there as I did in 2010).
While Brad Childress coached the Minnesota Vikings, he did whatever he thought was necessary to
win football games. Whether that meant getting on his hands and knees to beg Brett Favre to
unretire, or trading for the enigma that is Randy Moss. However, regarding the latter move, Brad
Childress says he now regrets the decision.
I won't front and pretend that I pay attention to what's going on in Sweden because I don't. Hell,
I'm barely concerned with Spain or England these days. But I know baller-assed performance when I
see one --or 1:20 of one at least-- and Alejandro Bedoya gave one this weekend against FK Viking
Ikea 1645.
That it wasn't a great surprise doesn't mean that it wasn't a disappointment. Geoff Moss, the
owner of Wrexham FC, had the chance to do the right thing just the once before handing over
ownership of the club to someone else, and he couldn't even manage to do that in the form of
handing ownership of the club to the Wrexham Supporters Trust, preferring instead to hand it over
to a group of individuals with no prior interest in Wrexham FC, one of whom is also banned from
acting as a company director until 2018 and was as recently as the end of last year was struck off
the Solicitors Roll as well.
The yanks in Norway kick off their action on Friday night with Mikkel Diskerud and Stabaek hosting
Valerenga while Josh Gatt and Molde seek their first win of the season on Sunday at Viking.
