The Footie Fool

Do or die only counts when you have been mathematically eliminated. And we haven’t been yet. But it’s hard to find a whole lot of confidence that we are going to move onto South Africa after tonight’s performance. The long desperate ball. Is this really what we have come to? This is not the Canada [...]

A few days ago I ranted about the lack of TV coverage by Sportsnet for the Mexico game. Today I eat crow and recant my rant as they finally announced (via Gerry Dobson’s blog), that they will be carrying the game and yes, it will be live. And finally, many of you have been wondering [...]

Just in case I failed to mention it here before, Sportsnet will be streaming tomorrow night’s WCQ vs. Honduras from Montreal. As for regular TV coverage, the schedule is the typical convoluted Sportsnet mash of times and delays that requires a PhD in media studies to unravel. The must-win for Canada game will be streamed [...]

Just when you think TV coverage might be geting a bit better for soccer in this country comes the shocker that Sportsnet may not be carrying the Mexico-Canada WCQ on Wednesday from Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiappa. The V’s boards are lighting up with responses from Sportsent to their emails reagrding coverage. Sportsnet has been vague at [...]

jpg75 of the Voyageurs managed to sit on on a conference press call with Julian DeGuzman earlier today. A summary of the call was posted on the V’s boards. In a nutshell, JDG mentioned that Canada will be targeting the back 4 of Honduras as the weak link. The expect Honduras will give the Canucks [...]

Okay, if you were Dale Mitchell, who would you start between the pipes on Saturday against Honduras? I’m serious here. I really am curious as to what a manager in his position is thinking right now. If he doesn’t go with Onstad, will that shake up the confidence of a keeper whose confidence is already [...]

Crap. Working in post secondary education means that this is the craziest time of the year for me…and always the worst time to update a blog. There is so much happening ahead of the WCQ games next week, I’ve got no time to update the blog!!!! ARGHHHH…. Team Canada arrives in Montreal will have to [...]

There is a reason that old warhorse cliche “Group of Death” was hauled out for our WC qualifying group. We are going to have to work to make it to the Hex. Jamaica, although considered the lesser of opponents in this group, is still a solid team and our team has to bring their game [...]