Author: Matthew Bird

  • Things I wished I had said.

    Things I wished I had said.

    It’s funny, I’m usually just floundering around looking for something to write about. Then the material somehow magically appears in front of you….. So Andrew Haines (owner of the St. Louis Ambush-ed. note) called me on Sunday. It took a lot of bottle I thought, to call a guy out of the blue, and who…

  • Merry Christmas

    Merry Christmas

    What? another article? I just wrote one…….. what do you mean that was last week? Let’s be honest, what we want more than anything for Christmas is an MLS team. or if we’ve been a bad child this year, we’ll settle for a USL Pro team. We’re disgustingly spoiled. 99 years ago, people just wanted…

  • Cost of doing business

    Cost of doing business

    “American soccer is shit eh?” Those unpopular words were uttered, maybe sarcastically by someone to me after the MLS cup final on Saturday at Frawleys. It’s unfair for me to name the perpetrator of this opinion so I won’t reveal his name, but for the purposes of this article I’ll just call him Dave Corbitt.…