WVHooligan.com – MLS Blog

Looks like the new league site is pumping out some cool new daily features. Here’s today’s update. (H/T to the MLS Insider for sending the links my way)

Yes, I am stirring up the pot yet again. It seems recently I’ve been getting messages and comments on the single table debate. Then over at the New York Times’ soccer blog, Jack Bell throws out his hopes for the idea and what to do with the playoff format. The obvious question is: Why even bother…[continue reading]

By Geoff Reid Big games today in the UEFA Champions League, Barca and Arsenal square off in London while CSKA Moscow hopes to continue their run in Milan. Arsenal vs Barcelona From The Emirates Stadium, London For all the football purists out there, this tie should be for you, at least on paper However, we…[continue reading]

Yesterday there was a big media scrum north of the border in Toronto. Turns out as we all knew in weeks leading up to the event that it was about MLS Cup 2010. Toronto will be this year’s host and honestly as I’ve mentioned before I love the idea. With all the upgrades to BMO…[continue reading]

So the league sends out these lovely emails each week with quotes, stats, and all kinds of goodies. This week’s had some fun figures about teams who qualify for the playoffs and how they started off the year. I mentioned last week that a good start goes a long way, especially now when more teams…[continue reading]

ESPN may be lowering their MLS coverage via columns and articles but at least they are still pumping out decent videos each week.

By Geoff Reid Lyon vs Bordeaux From The Stade de Gerland, Lyon This tie is fascinating for a lot of reasons. All the credit must go to Lyon for coming through their last 16 tie against Real Madrid and getting a result in the Bernebeau. Bordeaux had a difficult task against Olympiakos and came through…[continue reading]

Since yesterday there have been a slew of posts on FC Dallas and their God awful gate numbers. I saw this one this morning from Pitch Invasion and another one here at Match Fit USA from yesterday. Both point out the problems I mentioned yesterday in my mini-rant and both are excellent reads if you…[continue reading]

Yesterday was a busy day for me that I totally missed this email in my inbox. It was an apology from the league about their new website that was launched poorly late last week. The new look was simply just that a new look, all the new features weren’t hooked up and with loads of…[continue reading]

Week one is in the books and really we learned only a few things about each club. We saw that KC and New York are a little better than we expected and that San Jose and Philadelphia are as bad as we thought they’d be. Everything else is a mess in the middle for now.…[continue reading]