Philadelphia Union in the Media

Not to throw shade on any of the normal guys that cover the Union, but Smallwood's word definitely carries more weight outside of the soccer bubble.

 

Kinkead is going to be on United States of Soccer on Sirius this morning to discuss the Union.

 

just tuned in, was he on yet?

 

Not yet, think top of the hour.

 

on now

 

Anything of note come out of it?

 

Biggest market; lowest ROR.... Kevin also said he sees no change next 2 years.Jason said: 'how about JackMac scoring a goal against the Union this weekend ...' All very negative.

 

It was like an audio version of Big Soccer.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/may/01/philadelphia-union-mls-winless-streak


"In today’s MLS — where tireless fullbacks like Seattle’s Joevin Jones and Toronto’s Steven Beitashour overload the wings to create consistent offensive mismatches — Curtin’s teams can look outdated and underpowered, set out to fail from the first whistle. It doesn’t help that their two big summer signings, Haris Medunjanin and Jay Simpson, both look overwhelmed by physical nature of the MLS, out of breath and out of ideas."

Well, now I'm depressed.

 

We are internationally known!

 

They certainly get stupid

 

I'm tired of the old "MLS is a physical league" cliché, though. I've never seen a friendly between an MLS team and a foreign one in which the MLSers didn't look like scrawny weaklings. The Union have just signed a lot of players over the years who don't have the physical tools to play the game.

 

I often read it not just as physical in the hard-hitting sense, but physical in that physical attributes > technical ability. In that sense, I think it very much holds up (though improvement in this regard has been quite clear over the years).

 

Yeah, I hear physical league as damning praise. Like possession receiver = slow white guy in the NFL. It's very physical because most Euros/SA coming in have more technical abilities in their dirty laundry than half the club they're joining. Even a broken down Paunovic coming here pulled out moments of magic that none of the kids at the time could dream of. Marfan could try 100 free kicks from where Kleberson hit that beauty and never come close. Danny Cruz? Physical as hell.

 

Smallwood: Union's no-win situation has gone on long enough

 

Brb, writing a love letter to him.

 

No need. No one listens to the media.

 

FAKE NEWS! Union are winning! Smallwood is part of the biased media. Sad!

 

Union Interns: "Don't worry, Mr. Sugarman, we can distract from our epic suckatude with this DOPE Fresh Prince parody! Another one in the win column! We're winning off the field!"

https://www.philadelphiaunion.com/post/2017/05/05/fresh-prince-chest-air?autoplay=true

 

Blogging angry, hopped up on cheap Bordeaux and hummus. Cheaper than therapy.

 

couldn't make it down in time on Saturday so I watched at home. saw the pre game show for the first time. wow...I've seen high school news broadcasts with more professionalism than this. The woman who hosts actually uttered the phrase "kinda, sorta, probably a little". She also pronounced Bimbo like the derogatory term, not BEEM-bo. well done

 

I don't really have an issue with this. On its own, the LA result was a good one.

 

yeah, I'm not going to be negative about that one.... if it was something about being unbeaten I'll take issue.