Author: Matthew Bird

I was fully intending to write something about local soccer. I still am, just in a roundabout way. Referees. They’re crap aren’t they? I mean seriously. Just humanly interpreting laws with their own opinions like they don’t get to see umpteen replays. Full disclosure. I used to be a referee. Also a lino for that…

Well……. I timed my last article to be published about 20 minutes before Michael Bradley was transferred to Toronto……. so nobody read my stuff, instead we were all refreshing ESPN.com and mlssoccer.com for info on what maybe the biggest transfer in modern American soccer history. It’s hard to be objective with the Michael Bradley transfer…

So apologies on my last pieces. I can be a right Debbie Downer sometimes. Isn’t football brilliant!   It’s been some time so we’ve been able to digest the world cup draw. And while it has a whole lot of suck in it, aside the emotional patriotism of how your country might do, we’re in…