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Author: Matthew Bird
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Why We Support 3
Further experiences in the personal stories of Saint Louis soccer fans and Louligans from the past 2 years. What is your favorite moment? Let us know. The rained out, cancelled game that was supposed to be played against Vancouver. That Saturday night, as many fans couldn’t stop thinking and dwelling on the cancellation of a soccer…
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Why We Support, part 2
Due to overwhelming response to the request for a snippet of your favorite moment, game, event, player from the past 18 months, Here is the second installment. Thank you to everyone for responding. For me, the most amazing soccer-related experience I’ve had in the past 18 months would have to involve the USMNT World Cup…
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Why We Support, part 1
I was pretty down after the Swope Park defeat. So instead of dwelling, I tried to recall the good things that make supporting this club (or soccer in general) worthwhile. Sure, we support our team no matter; however I wanted to hear what other people remembered. I wanted a highlight, a player, an event, a…
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Best Fans in Soccer?
I know right, you probably read the headline and thought, “here we go, another self congratulatory piece, aren’t we great? Aren’t we fantastic……” Well no. Honestly this is far from that. Granted, if you support our local teams be it Saint Louis FC, or Fire and Ice, Lions, or Ambush to the college powerhouses like…
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12:43am Insomnia
Can’t sleep…. How about you? We don’t typically do match reports, or in depth match analysis. We kinda leave that to the Grant Wahl wannabes. But I think right now we can make an exception to the rule. Holy fuck what a goal. Games are coming think and fast and I had the privilege of…
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Monday Morning Quarterback
It was a question I quietly posed to myself in Oklahoma City; I kept it somewhat to myself and my immediate circle. “What exactly is Mike Ambersley doing on the right wing? Especially trying to track back against that wind in the first half.” Again against Tulsa, with younger legs on the bench, Ambo started…
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The Kit
When Eric Cantona went ballistic in January 1995, kicking out at a Crystal Palace fan after being sent off at Selhurst Park. It was Norman Davies the Manchester United kitman who had the unenviable job of walking Cantona back to the changing room. He was nicknamed “Vaseline” by the United players after Eric slipped from…
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Preseason Musings
I looked through my “Facebook memories” a lot recently. Many throwbacks to player signings from last year, standing on the Berm freezing to death and the general feeling of excitement that came with our inaugural year. I will still maintain that I think we had good reason to feel excited by the signings and buildup last…
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House Bill 2378
BREAKING NEWS: WE’RE GETTING MLS!!!!!! Ok, let’s hold our horses a little. However it is plastered all over the internet that Missouri house representative Keith English (Independent) has tabled a bill 2378 to increase city and county sales tax by 0.1% to be put in a fund for a potential soccer specific stadium. The timing…
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Gateway to the West
So that’s it then, the announcement we all knew was coming has been made official. Instead of looking east towards the soccer hotbeds of Harrisburg and Wilmington, we instead turn our attention in the same manner of Lewis and Clark and look forward to the Pacific ocean. What exactly does that entail? For us fans…