The Footie Fool

Good news for us basic cable types. We won’t have to resort to watching the Canada Honduras quarterfinal Gold Cup game on our 10 inch netbooks. Sportsnet says they will be carrying the game live on all Sportsnet channels for us to enjoy in all its full screen glory.
Rogers Sportsnet will broadcast Canada’s quarter-final match [...]

Earlier today the CBC announced that coverage of CONCACAF Champions League soccer will be drastically reduced next year due to the current financial crisis that is gripping Mother Corp. Whether this means a reduction in the amount of coverage or a complete cancellation of their coverage is hard to tell from the story.
As a soccer [...]

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 release [...]

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 I [...]

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 National [...]

Sportsnet has bailed. They won’t be showing Canada vs Jamaica tonight, Neither will the CBC, Setanta, GolTV, TSN or the myriad of other sports networks in this country. I could rant about how this is another example of why we are a third world soccer nation. Regardless of the situation we find ourselves in, this [...]