• Toronto FC target Keon Daniel

    This week Mo Johnston's pursuit of new signings for Toronto FC took him to the Caribbean to pursue 21-year-old Trinidadian Keon Daniel. MLS rumors had a blog last week that a number of MLS teams are looking at the midfielder and I can confirm that Toronto FC are one of those teams and Mo Johnston this week travelled to speak to the man himself. Daniel is a regular for the Trinidad and Tobago national team and scored a goal for them as recently as last month in their 3-0 World Cup qualifying game...
  • Becks move mystifies his Gaffer!

    Imagine this. Michael Owen, an ageing albeit effective superstar, decides that he needs to prove to Fabio Capello that he still 'has it' and despite a sub-par season, where injury derrailed him in part, and playing on a very poor team, derrailed him further, suggests that in order to force his way onto the England World Cup squad, he had better keep playing through the off-season, sign with another team, in a different league, and perhaps get the playing time, and the form that will appease...
  • The Sharman 5 (Oct 17th/08)

    As much as I enjoyed the International break, I am happy to get back my Saturday and Sunday ritualistic footy watching! Don't forget we'll be on with all the hilites Saturday at 6:30pm et and 9:30pm et, and then on Sunday, we'll be up at 10:30am et getting you set for Stoke vs Tottenham. Carl Robinson will be joining Kristian, Joe and yours truly in studio, and as usual, we want your thoughts on the big issues. Here are the storylines I'll be following, please feel free to give me...
  • One Reason to Love MLS

    One of the advantages to supporting a club in a small league like MLS is that for the most part, the players are honest lunch-bucket DIY types who don't make much more money than the average fan. You don't have to think about their inflated senses of self importance or their extravagant spending habits that keep them out of touch from reality. Basically, you'll never see an MLS player do this: Credit to UmpBump . You will however, see one do this: Hat tip to Busted Coverage for the discovery...