The Footie Fool

I have to see it as a positive for the maturation of the game in this country that we are now involved in conversations that the rest of the world has been having for generations – club or country?
The flash point today (to bring you up to speed in case you haven’t heard) is the [...]

Canadian players are on the move this week. First it was Lars Hirschfeld signing with FC Energie Cottbus in Germany. Now it’s David Edgar, Josh Simpson, Chris Pozniak and Kevin Harmse.
After much speculation as to where he would end up, David Edgar has finally left Newcastle and signed a 4 year deal with EPL newcomers [...]

The roster is out, officially, and by the time you have read this the mainstream press will probably have plenty of quotes from Dwayne DeRosario as to why he won’t don the red and white kit for the Gold Cup. Heck, they may even have a quote or two from Adrian Serioux as why he [...]

Found this info poking around Jim Brennan’s spanky new website this morning.  Now, maybe I missed the official announcements, but I thought the problem Jim had with the team was Dale Mitchell and that once he was gone we would see Jimmy return to the fold. But there can be no doubt with the language [...]

A great interview with Whitecaps President Bob Lenarduzzi on It’s Called Football this morning.
Now, it’s probably not news to those who are more in the loop than I that the franchise fee Vancouver paid to the MLS was $35 million – $5 million less than the (what I thought) was a “non-negotiable” $40 mil MLS [...]

Team 1040 is reporting that MLS officials will be in Vancouver this week to announce that the Vancouver Whitecaps will be joining the MLS in 2011.
The team is in Tanzania this week playing some friendlies in Africa. (which, as an aside, makes me go wtf – a USL team can manage Friendlies against world class [...]

Word this week that Barcelona has pulled their support for Miami’s MLS bid effectively killing it has moved Vancouver to the top of the MLS 2011 expansion list. Should that happen, could Victoria be on the verge of getting a USL-1 franchise?
Victoria has been gunning for a USL-1 franchise for a few years now, a [...]

Arsenal plays tomorrow, and I have just painfully admitted that I don’t care. Actually, I just lied. It wasn’t painful.
Something has happened to me this season. Something has changed. No, Arsenal, I don’t think it’s you. It’s me. Really.
Oh I am not saying you are not partially to blame. We all know it takes two [...]