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On not beating Toronto FC
By: Jim |
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Well, at least they didn’t lose.
And to be fair, there’s more to be excited about than just that. For a good bit of the game (about one-third even!) the offense played with some degree of competence. Balls are being played through and out of the midfield with purpose, and the concept of shooting the ball [...]
Category: Team News
Facing Jeff Cunningham and Toronto FC
By: Jim | No Comments
Each year, my wife and I buy two sets of season tickets. These past few seasons she doesn’t go to very many games, and really, who can blame her given the levels of ineptidute and frustration the Crew have attained recently? I mean, season ticket prices have actually gone down two seasons in a row. [...]
Category: Team NewsA couple of non-Crew related things
By: Jim | 1 Comment
First, former Columbus Crew player and still our all-time leading goalscorer Jeff Cunningham has been traded from Real Salt Lake to FC Toronto, in exchange for Alecko Eskandarian. You can read a bit more about this, from the perspective of a RSL supporter, here. Yesterday I made an off-the-cuff comment about how I’d welcome Jeff [...]
Category: Team NewsMore of an introduction, or, what have I gotten myself into?
By: Jim | 7 Comments
You know, starting out blogging about the Crew in the wake of one of their worst defeats ever may not have been the most emotionally healthy decision I’ve ever made in my life, but I trust I will not regret it. For one thing, the whole point of blogging is to bitch about some horrible [...]
Category: Team NewsBy way of introduction
By: Jim | 10 Comments
Howdy.
As you have no doubt surmised, there’s a change in the lineup here at The Offside, Columbus branch. My name is Jim, and I have the honor of talking to you every day about of of my great passions, the Columbus Crew soccer team. I really don’t know all that’s expected of me in this [...]
Category: Team NewsAbandoning Post: My Life as a Crew Blogger
By: Jeff | 3 Comments
And so it goes that seven games into Major League Soccer’s 2007 season, I’m abandoning my position as the Columbus Crew’s blogger for The Offside. It was a fun experiment, trying to write about a soccer team I don’t support. If nothing else, it finally disabused me of my notion that I can [...]
Thoughts on Week 7; sporadic posting explained
By: Jeff | No Comments
I won’t pretend I watched the Crew’s flame-out against Red Bull; I’m finding watching the Crew harder and harder lately. But I did catch the Quick Kicks highlights and that showed me enough. The four goals conceded says enough about the defense – though that howler of a pass that led to Juan [...]
Crew 1 – 1 Chivas: Pulling for the Slow Kids
By: Jeff | No Comments
Before getting to the game itself, what appears below recommends a preface of sorts. For those who aren’t aware, I’m a married man; as such, I had Mother’s Day obligations. That wasn’t a problem – I went through the day happy even – but I did rearrange my soccer-viewing schedule to accommodate some [...]
Moreno: Sigi Explains All
By: Jeff | No Comments
Last Wednesday, I puzzled a bit over the swap that sent Joseph Ngwenya to the Houston Dynamo in exchange for Alejandro Moreno suiting up for the Columbus Crew. Confine the conversation to goals alone and that makes sense; hell, even when factoring in Moreno’s penchant for drawing fouls the upside to the move seemed [...]
Crew v. Chivas: Grey Skies Are Gonna Clear Up…
By: Jeff | No Comments
…and you know the rest (it’s “put on a happy face” for those who don’t).
As you’ll see above, the trade for Alejandro Moreno makes a little more sense once Columbus Crew coach Sigi Schmid frames it correctly. Between that change, Guillermo Schelotto having another week with the team, and Chivas USA’s suck-suck-sucky all-time road [...]
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