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Holy crap, what a day! 2 major developments for Canadian soccer – Julian de Guzman blasting the CSA and The Voyageurs issuing a press release calling for Dale Mitchell’s resignation. If you have been lurking around the V’s forum for the past week or so, then you have no doubt caught wind of the press [...]

I’ve been playing with a FootieFool Twitter account for the past few days. If you use Twitter and want to follow me here I am. If you have no idea what Twitter is, it’s a microblogging service to send out short bursts (140 characters or less) of information to a network. In my other life [...]

Just a day after I bitched that we didn’t have a match coming up in the near future, the CSA announced today that Canada will be playing a Friendly May 30th against Cyprus. So, CSA, while I have your ear, maybe we could talk a bit about sacking Dale Mitchell before the Gold Cup :)?

Okay, let’s check out the CONCACAF action this week. Both the US and Mexico are in action against a touring Sweden. Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatamala, Panama, Belize, Nicaragua will be facing off in UNCAF to see who is the Central American champ, and who will move on to the Gold Cup. Hmmm…let’s see. [...]

A couple of Atiba Hutchinson references have popped up in the past couple of days, albeit they are the type of Google Translate type articles that have been known to whip Canadian players into a tizzy. And, this being the European silly season, you can’t read too much into speculation and idle name tossing. But [...]

Rumour out of England this morning is that ‘arry Redknap is hot for Julian de Guzman. De Guzman’s contract with Deportivo is over at the end of season and, considering the problems he has had with Deportivo and his contract recently, and the financial mess that Deportivo is in, you can expect that there is [...]

I can’t keep up. Seems like there is a whack of Canuck soccer news this week. Fortunatly I have my handy, dandy Google Reader and the ever expanding Canadian soccer blogging community to keep me up to date. New reads for me are the extremely prolific 24th Minute, who seems to crank out 6 posts [...]

In all the pre Christmas hoopla I forgot to send out best wishes to former Globe & Mail columnist Ben Knight, who is now free of the corporate media shackles and blogging for himself at Onward. In addition Ben is joining a weekly soccer podcast called “It’s Called Football” with Ben Rycroft, who is the [...]