The Footie Fool

Great. Just when I spew on Dale Mitchell, up Canada pops with a 2-2 draw with Mexico and, from all accounts I have read so far, a pretty decent outing (between my night job and my day job, I have yet to watch the tilt.) A decent outing without Atiba Hutchinson, Dwayne DeRosario, Julian De [...]

So much to say about this friendly, so little time. The score is a bit unfair to Canada, really. We played a decent game in terrible conditions (-2 and a blizzard that conjured up images of Winnipeg in January). Certainly no need to be calling for Mitchell’s head on a plate, as some are doing [...]

Hmmm, not sure what happened here, but just weeks before Canada was supposed to play St. Lucia in a Friendly in February, the game has been canceled. Instead, Canada will now take on Martinique in a Friendly in Martinique next week.
Like Guadeloupe, Martinique is part of France and is not a member of FIFA so [...]

Oh my goodness, did that suck.
It took me a day to watch it due to a crazy schedule yesterday but after seeing the game I have to think why did I bother? Canada put in a brutal performance and drops a 2-0 Friendly to (as Gerry Dobson continually and painfully kept reminding us of) a [...]

Canada will be playing 2010 World Cup host South Africa in an international Friendly next week (November 20th) in Durban, South Africa. Today Dale Mitchell announced his squad and it looks like he is pulling heavily from Europe and will contain a previously uncapped player.
As expected, DeRo and Pat Onstaad will be sitting this one [...]

9,325 fans. In a city that sees sellouts for a basement dwelling team like Toronto FC (no disrespect FC fans), the best that it could muster was 9,325 fans for an international friendly against the team we are most likely going to be racing with for a World Cup berth?
Where the heck was everyone?
I know [...]

Quick post. Things have been silly busy for me the past week or so and there has been so much to write about - take your pick. The silliness of the CSA, the Champions League draw last week (which sees Arsenal sitting in a pretty good spot when compared to the other English teams), Arsenal [...]

A blow for Canada as Copenhagen FC’s Atiba Hutchinson won’t be making the trip from Copenhagen to Reykjavik for Canada’s friendly against Iceland tomorrow due to illness. Also sitting out are Goaltender Lars Hirschfeld with a thumb injury and forward Rob Friend (back).
Pat Onstad (Houston), David Edgar (Newcastle) and Rhian Dodds (Kilmarnock F.C.) are replacing [...]