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 [...]

Looks like there is fire underneath the Jim Brennan smoke I posted about a few days ago. The Toronto FC defender has publicly spoken out against both Dale Mitchell and the CSA. He hasn’t retired from the MNT, but emphatically states that he won’t be suiting up as long as Dale Mitchell is at the [...]

Well, as if this WCQ campaign could stink anymore, it has now completely gone from crap to shite.  Reports from the Deportivo website (via squizz) say Julian De Guzman is injured and out for 2 weeks. No DeRo, no Serioux, no De Guzman.

The CSA released the roster for the next 2 Canadian WCQ games against Honduras (Saturday, October 11 in Honduras) and Mexico (in Edmonton Wednesday, October 15) and there are changes aplenty with 7 new names on the roster, and a few familiar ones missing. First, the lose of 2 starters, Dwayne DeRosario and Adrian Serioux [...]

Quickly wanted to poiint you to a couple of interesting Canadian soccer tidbits I’ve come across in the past few days. First, there is an interview with Dwayne DeRosario in the National Post where he has some unkind words about, surprise surprise, the CSA. Here’s a sample: They are more concerned about trying to make [...]

As much as we hoped and prayed for a miracle, it never came. In the end, beating, or even drawing Mexico in Mexico was just too much to expect. But we can take some positives away from this result. There is decent officiating in CONCACAF. Full marks to the T&T ref who made good calls [...]

The Miracle in Mexico, the Fracas in Chiapas is going to be live on Sportsnet across Canada regardless of what cable package you have. If you get Sportsnet, you will have the opportunity to witness one of this country’s greatest soccer achievements – the dismantling of Sven Gorran-Erikson’s Mexico.  Game time is 9 Eastern/ 6 [...]

Okay, Saturday night is behind me. Time to regroup and prepare for Wednesday. For inspiration, I went back to something I wrote shortly after the Brazil tilt in Seattle. But the most important take away from this game for me was that we came back. Not once, but  twice. Besides showing some real flair on [...]