Major League Soccer

PS Fire 1, United 0 at the half.

We've all totally lost interest because our glorious hero David Beckham is no longer involved. Sorry.

Yeah, that's right, my team kicked his broke ass out on Sunday.

Any excuse to watch this again.

is blanco playing? soccernet isn't working for me right now

Golaso de De Rosario

Blanco started, but he hasn't had much of a game thus far.

i'm marginally interested. when my town, seattle, gets a team in '09 i'm sure i'll be way more into it

Some friends of mine saw (the US) Chivas this last weekend. Said it was straight bollocks.

Welcome, shit-talking British people.

The game ended 1-0. DC put in their goal-scorers in the second half but they didn't do much of anything either. Leg 2 is in a week in DC.

Also, it occured to me that Brits ought to know "bollocks" football when they see it, considering their national team.

Yeah, the British National Football Team has a long and varied history.

"Brits" = the English. No Scots would call themselves "Brits".

Sorry, you're right.

First round:

Chivas over KC
Revs over NY
Houston over Dallas
Fire over DC

After that, I don't know.

Any excuse to watch this again.

Great free kick, not sure about this "upper 90" term instead of the traditional "postage stamp" or even "top corner".

Is that Tim Lovejoy MLS show still on?

Conference finals are set:

✧✧✧@✧.✧.
K.C.@Houston

NE looked assy in their 1-0 win over New York. Aside from the fact that the Fire have to play in their huge, empty stadium, on turf, I think they have a great shot of breaking the playoff curse vs. the Revs. Houston should roll over KC.

Stupid ILX, those aren't email addresses

Chi AT N.E.

So the season starts tomorrow, does anyone care?

Yes, I'm going to New Jersey to watch like 7 hours of MLS tomorrow, since our first game isn't until Apr 5.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/powerranking?cc=5901

lol: Riquelme to MLS?

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-spw-soccer9apr09,1,6870991.story

Similarly, if Riquelme plays for Argentina in its June 8 friendly against the U.S. at Giants Stadium, all it will take for him to reject any move is one look at the dreadful, patched-up, threadbare, NFL-logoed carpet that passes for a soccer field at the Meadowlands.

ahahahahaha

Seattle Alliance, Seattle Republic and Seattle FC beaten out by popular opinion. New Team:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2008/04/07/2004333628.jpg

meet the new team
same as the old team

with an FC!

Dan kind of sold me on Emerald City FC, I don't think it got a fair chance...but good for them, anyway. Nice work chucking the proverbial monkey wrench in the league's plans.

Although I did read a decent rejoinder from a Seattle fan somewhere who said they were happy that E.C.F.C. didn't get picked b/c they'd be spared all the teasing and the stupid jokes (especially when KC came to town).

even though i voted for just seattle fc, i'm happy with the name.

pretty uncringeworthy as far as u.s. professional soccer team names go, historically speaking, anyhow

Didn't Chicago almost get called something really lame?

Oh god, I'm not sure since I haven't followed the team for that long, but I remember reading a reference somewhere online to calling the team the "Rhythm"? GAG

YES, that's what I was thinking of. Can you imagine? SO MANY JOEKS, I CANNOT DECIDE

The K.C. Wiz has to be stupidest ever, even taking the NASL into account.

Dallas Burn & Tampa Bay Mutiny pretty close behind

still, i don't sneeze at their rhythm method-inspired offsides trap

all football strategies should take cues from dodgy birth control methods

like the d.c. united 7-up douche corner kick formation

worst logo
http://web.mlsnet.com/imgs/logos/t102_md.gif
it looks like the label on some weird 90s era mirco brewed soda.

DC are douches, that is for sure.

i first read that as "micc10 brewed soda"

step away from computer, dell

but yeah, that's a fitting description

either that, or the failed irish-amer hip hop band that lost it to house of pain

best NASL team logo

ESPN talking heads going off on streamers being tossed at games:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8pgexephJM&eurl=http://theoffsiderules.blogspot.com/

i was watching that game on the telly. i thought the streamers fiasco was pretty funny. Actually it was a pretty decent game, although I'm perfectly aware that the "open" style of play was down to no defending on either side whatsoever.

Whoever the guy in that video was ranting is a total fuckwit.

My girlfriend and I were thinking about going to a Revolution match this season. Any suggestions on which? Neither of us follow the MLS closely. LA is out as its sold out.

HAI GUISE I M GOING TO DC TOMORROW. Wish ush luck.

LOL:

In a pair of sweeping changes brought about by a Major League Soccer season in meltdown, the Los Angeles Galaxy today removed Alexi Lalas as team president and general manager and Ruud Gullit as coach.

In its official statement on the changes, AEG, which owns the team, said that Gullit had resigned "for personal reasons" and that Lalas' contract was up at the end of the year and that the team decided to part company now rather than wait.

that's what you get for spending all your salary cap (plus some lol) on three players

I'm so happy, really. They deserved the boot.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
LOVE YOU
WE LOVE YOU
WE LOVE YOU
AND WHERE YOU PLAY WE'LL FOLLOW
WE'LL FOLLOW
WE'LL FOLLOW

Congrats to NY for completely stuffing DC yesterday and making a lot of people very happy.

Lalas is such a tool, really. I remember hearing him say, in all earnestness, that the Gals would be the first MLS "superclub".

Naniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

lol 2-0 already OCSC

of course they'd play a match like this when nobody can be there to watch. 3 goals!

I didn't see it, but apparently the Quakes/Vancouver game tonight was complete lunacy.

have they just decided every 2nd half is going to have 10 minutes of stoppage now? cos they scored the winner in the 9th minute of stoppage tonight, Orlando had 10 minutes of stoppage last night, which seemed absurd considering the drink break wasn't THAT long, and only one goal, typical number of substitutions, a few short injury stops.

i mean if u wanna get technical about, we HAVE been stopping play for months until now, thats a lot of time to make up

really bad job guys pic.twitter.com/GNzlIijYGE

— watke (@watke_) July 16, 2020

Was thinking about crossposting to amazing goal thread but nah

of fucking course, the first Orlando City squad that looks like it might be quality happens during a global pandemic ;)

woohoo, on to quarterfinals. this OC team is legit, just still need a more solid striker at the back. also Nani has been kind of off his game.

Nerve-racked for the second half vs LAFC

OH MY FUCKING GOOOOD

semi-finals against Minnesota. weather delay. meh

FINALS BABYYYYYYYYYYYY

TV coverage not realising Orlando had scored until a full two minutes after play had resumed - the MLS is back, baby.

That made me so fucking mad

But HEY WE BEAT ATLLLLL

It's a pretty regular thing ime, the broadcast will be f-ing around with a replay or some BS and a goal will be scored off-screen.

Fire had about 15 mins of good play tonight and that wasn't nearly enough, even though it seems like nycfc is mostly bad too. Them playing at Red Bull arena is hilarious.

Also to save money the away team broadcasters (well, for the Fire at least) are rarely on site even in non pandemic times.

amazing what having to play on a real field does to the Pigeons

mega LOLs today with Brad Guzan failing to save a ball shot directly at him and appearing to shit the ball into the goal

It was a bizarre situation. Junior Urso scored and the ref seemed to have ruled the goal out, so he started complaining and play restarted off-screen. The commentators were discussing why it might have been chalked off and were told later that it had counted. idk how they got all the players back in their own halves and kicked off again in the time it took to show a replay.

The referee was appalling. An Atlanta player was kicked by a high foot hard enough to leave stud marks in his neck, while in the penalty box - the ref gave nothing, was told to look at it again on screen, and still gave nothing. Orlando deserved to win overall, though.

I'm not used to my boys being good. Enjoying this while it lasts

Blowing a lead in both the last two games and leaving 4 points on the field...fuck.

Against Atlanta's awful team even worse. They had zero attack but it just takes 1.

Sorry dan m

What do you mean, it's been like this for years

year is a clusterfuck. asterix or no, thrilled beyond fuck for us to have 38 points in 21 matches.

Cincinatti, meanwhile, got shut out for the 14th time in 22 games, and have only 11 goals this year. the record for fewest was DC in 2010 with 21 in a 30 game season. yowch.

That Orlando v NYC penalty shootout was probably the most farcical sporting moment I've ever seen

Utterly ridiculous.

I'm happy we won but for a ref to not know the rules...and he's a two time referee of the year winner

The fact he didn't realise another penalty needed to be taken was *chefs kiss*

Glad Orlando won though, they got gypped for the keeper being sent off. What utterly repugnant refereeing. Hilarious seeing the Orlando manager dancing into the tunnel in sheer delight only having to come out and relive the anxiety again tbh

Oh yes let's not forget that he forgot they can't bring on a sub keeper cos they used all their subs!

Lol yea. I understood why OCSC was confused (the game initially "ended" on a NYCFC miss so the misremembered that they were actually shooting second) but the ref not realizing was ridic. NYCFC having to point at the scoreboard, lol

Having a CB make a game winning save is a new one.

Orlando is selling a special goalkeeper kit for Schlegel now lolol. Took them no time at all

He was probably off his line though too!

Weird disconnect seeing a lot of people at that game only to go back to Columbus Crew where the stands are empty. Go Florida! You obviously got this!

Most entertaining league in the world

lol @ all of the articles coming out sharing PRO's defense of the ref clarifying a) why Gallese got a yellow (MLS still using 19/20 rules as season started in 19/20 season) and b) why Rowe couldn't be subbed in. Fair enough on A, but the reason everybody was yelling at how bad the ref was had less to do with his calls and more to do with him seeming not to know any of the rules and going back and forth no less than twice on whether Rowe could come on, or signaling game over at 5-5. his handling of the Rowe situation felt like it took a half hour.

Two goals in stoppage of KC vs SJ was wild, just starting extra time now.

Toronto vs Nashville in Connecticut is very MLS

Nashville is America's Team.

lol at nut-kick with studs not being a red card

also lol at Philly

this holds, my boys get an unexpected 2nd round home match

I like Jim Curtin (former Fire player from when I was first getting into following them) and I really hate New England (olde tyme Fire rival from that same era)

That said if Bruce Arena can win with New England, that's a definite accomplishment

Philly choked. wow. my boys get an unexpected 2nd home playoff match. a winnable one!

i think we coulda taken PHilly too tho

Philly was so bad, very surprising

I think the only team I have left to root for is Minnesota, maybe LAFC if they win tonight

A friend who bets on MLS (lol) pointed out that New England has the best away record in the league, which this year is saying something given the way teams fly in and fly out on the same day

yeah, Orlando's first road game post-restart, they looked completely zonked due to the 4 hour same day bus ride to Miami