The Footie Fool

Earlier today, Dale Mitchell responded to Jim Brennan and, well, it looks like we’ve got us a good ol’ fashioned tit for tat going on in Canadian soccer.

When asked if he would ever call Brennan again, Mitchell responded with an emphatic “no”.

Mitchell said Brennan had turned down the call-ups in the last 18 months “but when he doesn’t get a call-up then we get a big song and dance about it.”

“I don’t know. I think with certain players in this day and age, they expect to have things their own way,” he added.

I’ll be very interested to see what happens after this campaign ends. Yesterday Brennan eluded to the fact that he wasn’t the only one unhappy with both Mitchell and the CSA and that more players will probably make their voices heard after this campaign is over.

It may all be mute, however, if we don’t move onto the next round. I suspect that a lose in Honduras will mean the end of the road for Mitchell. If not then, failure to move on would surely see him gone at some point and the rebuilding begin, once again, for “the next time”. At that point, the real question will be whether those same players will still speak up about the role of the CSA, or with Mitchell gone would that be enough to quiet the discontent?

This assumes that there is widespread discontent in the Canuck camp. Who the hell knows right now? All I know is that the drama is flying fast and furious. And, oh yeah, we’ve got a game to play in Honduras on Saturday.

We’re going head to head with the opening of Hockey Night in Canada, so there probably won’t be many pubs carrying this game live at 6:30pm Pacific. Sportsnet will be showing it, as Sportsnet usually does, live on Sportsnet Pacific West and Pacific, providing you have the full Sportsnet digital package and your rabbit ears tuned to 49.6 degrees north by northwest. Let’s all hope that the Honduran network carrying the game doesn’t do it’s part for the cause and, at the last minute, decide to piss of Canadian fans by sending a rerun of BJ and The Bear down the satellite line to Dobson and Forrest sitting in the studio in TO. Mind you, with the mess that might be awaiting us on Saturday, that little monkey might be a whole lot more fun to watch.

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