WVHooligan.com – MLS Blog

I’ve been meaning to post this for a day or so now but just haven’t got around to it until today. A few months back I did a story on MLS Expansion and how each potential city out there stacked up. Strengths and weaknesses were listed along with some key questions. So in a way…[continue reading]

At the end of the day there are seven cities competiting for a MLS expansion bid. Two cities will win out and begin playing in 2011, while the rest will wonder and hope if the league will put up another round of expansion for the 19th and 20th clubs. Once more those in the mix:…[continue reading]

Tomorrow is the deadline but let’s go through and see who all has sent in their bid to the league for an expansion club. Right now there are a few cities with some big bids on the table for MLS to go over for the next two clubs. But floating out there is also the…[continue reading]

With one week left before the deadline imposed by Major League Soccer, one city crossed the final T’s and dotted the final I’s on their expansion bid this morning. Portland took a major step toward potentially having an MLS expansion team today with their ownership group officially submitting the bid for a club to the…[continue reading]

While Portland may have not finished in the top two of the WVH Poll for expansion (that nod went to St. Louis and Montreal), they have put out their plan today for MLS expansion, including what they plan to do with current Timbers venue PGE Park. According to MLStoPortland.com, the plan to renovate PGE Park…[continue reading]

Major League Soccer to the city of Portland is starting to get a heavier push by Portland Timbers owner Merritt Paulson. The expansion bid into the major league is set to go in full swing here as the MLS expansion deadline is coming to a close in the next month. The city is behind it…[continue reading]

Hot off the email presses today, this just dropped in my inbox a moment ago from the folks up in Portland. After today’s announcement of the league’s expansion deadlines and what not, Portland wasted no time to get their bid into the league. They have made their bid official with the league and have issued…[continue reading]

Below is the press release sent to me earlier this morning…okay pretty much late into the night (3am) about Portland’s grassroots effort getting kick started with an official launch of their website. PORTLAND, July 24th 2008 – On the eve of the 2008 Major League Soccer Allstar Game, a loosely assembled group of Portland residents,…[continue reading]

One quick update. Some fans up in Portland have put together a website for their effort to bring a MLS club to the city. Also, it sounds like they have something coming soon. Like July 24th soon. Last time I checked that is around the All-Star game. I don’t know if who ever is running…[continue reading]

We talked yesterday about the fading, if not ending hopes of an expansion club for Miami. Today another expansion hopeful is back in the press and is sounding very optimistic. Its the Northwest discussion folks. Portland. More importantly the Portland Timbers getting a bump to the big leagues like their rival Seattle Sounders. The news…[continue reading]