I’ll admit to being naive. I genuinely thought there was a chance that when Chris Klein’s contract expired this year, the Los Angeles Galaxy might actually let him go. When it was revealed the club had cheated under his watch (and in spectacular “Galaxy-under-Klein” fashion, still failed regardless), that he himself would be suspended, & […]
Read more "So You Didn’t Think We Should Boycott, Huh?"The Alien franchise, Metallica, the Walking Dead & the Los Angeles Galaxy: all things that used to be far better than are now. With some of these, there is debate as to where things went wrong. “Alien3” or “Resurrection”? “The Black Album”, “Load” or did things truly start to falter with “…Justice”? Did TWD jump […]
Read more "#KleinOut"I looked on, nerves quivering as once again, Los Angeles FC surged towards the Los Angeles Galaxy goal. We were deep into an extraordinary eight minutes of injury time, the score poised at an anxiety-inducing 2-1 to the Galaxy. Finally, the resistance broke. The ball hit the back of the net. LAFC fans rejoiced. My […]
Read more "Oh, The Hilarity – El Trafico 2022, Part 1"What do Landon Donovan, Omar Gonzalez, Giovani Dos Santos, Romain Alessandrini, Jonathan Dos Santos and Cristian Pavon, all have in common? Every single one of them was under 30 when they signed their first Designated Player contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy. Let’s get something out of the way right off the bat: we who […]
Read more "The MLS “Retirement League” Hand-Wringing Continues"Well that was a roller-coaster! Not the great kind that starts by inching you up a steep incline to the brink of a pant-wettingly precipitous drop, before hurtling into oblivion, stomach-tingling terror and euphoric glee. No, it’s more of a rickety wooden construct that doesn’t work quite as it should, needs several parts replaced and […]
Read more "The LA Galaxy 2019 Season Review"I sometimes feel like you could lock me in a room, send in a Major League Soccer official with a crate of Lays (other crisps/potato chips are available) and instructions to make sure I put on weight and they’d find a way to fail. Currently, the league is sparking needless controversy in its handling of […]
Read more "MLS, Anti-Fascism & The Iron Front Symbol"Jorgen bloody Skjelvik. A man so incompetent in his occupation of footballer that LA Galaxy fans have taken to spelling his name ludicrously wrong as a running joke. The fact that this man continues to cash the monthly checks that constitute his baffling $900,000-per-anum salary, is an offense that Charles Ponzi would feel guilty about […]
Read more "LA Galaxy Post Colorado Rant-A-Thon"I had initially pondered writing a scathing review of the stadium experience of Los Angeles FC’s much hyped Banc of California Stadium and its much lauded atmosphere. For now, let’s just say that the venue and atmosphere were very disappointing. Instead, as the title suggests, I’m going to focus on the ongoing discussion about the […]
Read more "The LA Galaxy Stadium Atmosphere Debate"I’d like to start my review of the latest “El Trafico” LA Galaxy vs Los Angeles FC game and its fallout with an excerpt from the upcoming autobiographical account by avid LAFC supporter William G. Gruff, entitled “Into Battle: Facing The Heart of Carson”: Zero Hour, 6:35 PST. Our generals squat huddled beneath a canopy […]
Read more "LAG vs LAFC IV: Goats vs Predator"*Please note – this contains profanity. Let’s get Sunday night’s actual LA Galaxy game out of the way first: if I were the soccer equivalent of an irrationally high-strung Star Wars or Game of Thrones fan, I would be demanding the match at home to Robert Kraft’s redheaded rounding error, the New England Revolution, be […]
Read more "An Embarrassing Evening of Galactic Proportions"
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