Anyone complaints about the FSC coverage is just sour grapes. I watch almost any non-DCU MLS game with relative indifference, but I caught the last half an hour of the game and the announcers may have been a little biased, but considering the phenomenal atmosphere for a new team on the brink of their first win, I think it was hard not to be. I was tempted to start throwing the pillows off of my sofa to join in the fun. Even if they are mildly biased the whole season when doing Toronto games, it's always so much better than hearing Rob Stone and most of the other ABC clowns discuss irrelevant things like where players ate last Thursday night and what their favorite kind of needlepoint is.
I'm not Canadian (but I live in Michigan), and I watch both hockey and now MLS games on the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp) because the announcers shut up and let you actually watch the game. In the two games I've watched, the TFC supports have blown out all other MLS team supporters... combined. I have full respect for TFC and its supporters. Plus, until a US-based fan produces something as funny as this: http://www.embargo.ca/ultras/news/sliced/20070503-1.html (the picture of Donovan is hilarious) TFC's fans will remain my favorite supporter's group in the MLS. Garber is a moron if he doesn't see the potential for another two teams. The Vancouver Whitecaps and the Montreal Impact have similar fan bases in the USL games I've seen them in.
I'm not Canadian (but I live in Michigan), and I watch both hockey and now MLS games on the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp) because the anouncers shut up and let you actually watch the game. In the two games I've watched, the TFC supports have blown out all other MLS team supporters... combined. I have full respect for TFC and its supporters. Plus, until a US-based fan produces something as funny as this: http://www.embargo.ca/ultras/news/sliced/20070503-1.html (the picture of Donovan is hilarious) TFC's fans will remain my favorite supporter's group in the MLS. And, Garber is a moron if he doesn't see the potential for another two teams. The Vancouver Whitecaps and the Montreal Impact have similar fan bases.
i can understand him in a verbal sense, but half the time he's just rambling about shit and everyone on the show thinks he's the be-all-end-all of soccer commentating just because he's scottish.
I pull for the Fire and I'm still not shedding any tears. I would have liked to get the win but oh well. Toronto's atmosphere was great and I give them all the credit for that. I had the game on Tivo and watched it after reading this. I'm not sure what all the fuss about this huge bias is. It was really insignificant imo. The only thing that pissed me off was the idiot ref sending off Guttierez for trying to keep the two involved from killing each other. What a moron! FFS talk to your AR or something. Pickens should have been the one to go. Just another terribly incompetent piece of trash doing an MLS match.
Why are these blogger's scores still backwards? The 'team name - score - score - team name' format is supposed to put the home team name first, not last.
From what the announcers were saying last night, and what you could see on TV, they got 19K for a cold and drizzly night game in the 40s, with no roof to cover people's heads. And the place sounded like it was rocking, the cameras were shaking because of the crowd. Very impressive. I'd say they will have to eventually come back to the pack somewhat, as most new teams do after the novelty wears off, but with 14K season tickets and the team getting better on the field, who knows?
I can understand most of Bobby Mc Mahon says as well. What I don't like about him is that many times he's disrespectful towards non-EPL clubs and quite often he's even rude. It doesn't make sense to me that FSC covers the Coca Cola Championship (a second division competition) before covering La Liga or Serie A. They need to be more unbiased
Apologies if this has already been asked before but, does anyone envisage a US/Canada rivalry building up in MLS? Er.... that's been said before hasn't it! Anyway, will this help MLS?
Wow, what a bitter little man you are. Maybe he was cheering for Toronto because at the time they hadn't scored a goal, and it has been pretty clear that everyone thinks they have the best fans in the league, and he, like many others, thought the fans deserved to see a goal... or three But, stop crying. Try going to a game and supporting your team. OR is there a baseball game on?
Talking to Toronto fans is kind of like trying to convince kids they aren't the first ones to try jumping off the roof with an umbrella... It's cool and everything...but you didn't invent the shit buddy.
if La Liga and Serie A didnt suck and were more competitive, maybe then they'd get more coverage, eh. Or you can interpret it a different way, they save the more popular gino-leagues (Serie A and La Liga) to later in the show, so that people will watch the whole report.
I hope that's a joke and you aren't actually so biased that you believe that bullshit. The EPL is my favorite league but LaLiga is definitely just as competitive if not more in the mid to lower table. Have ever heard of the UEFA cup?
Or maybe it's because they own the rights to the EPL and don't feel like promoting La Liga and Serie A and the Bundesliga as much since they are on Gol TV, a competitor. They have a bit of Serie A, but Lazio and Cagliari highlights aren't exactly audience grabbers.
it was a joke, atleast when it compares to La Liga, but with all the cheating in Serie A, it's not competitive at all. the best thing about Italian soccer is the fan keeps killing each other. and Warbuxx made another point I had forgotten to point out till I got off last night. but I believe he was originally talking about the Fox Soccer Report, not the whole schedule
La Liga and Serie A don't suck of course. Anybody who says the opposite has obviously no business in soccer.
that's why practically no one goes to Serie A games? seriously, look at the stands next time you watch a Serie A game, when it is a regular game, no one shows up. Case in point, Real Madrid got beat in 11 seconds in the Champions League this year, by a team that didnt qualify for the next year's Champions League. and the only Italian team to make it anywhere was originally disqualified for cheating and match fixing.
Oh please! Please show me where AC Milan was proven of either of those things. You won't be able to because that wasn't the case at all. Serie A isn't boring for anyone who loves the game. In fact last year I believe it was the highest scoring of the big 3.
This is because the Italian football administration has made changes to the standards of stadiums, and they've actually closed many of them down to fans after the policeman was killed a little while back. Did you really think those clubs had failed to sell one ticket at all? Come on.
Actually that might have been from the falling bolts and fasteners.... http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=431300&cc=5901
I knew that, but fans have been allowed back in, and still many many empty seats.CBC report on Italian soccer drawing even fewer fans "Tuscan clubs Empoli and Siena averaged 6,725 and 9, 874 spectators last season, respectively, while Chievo, a small team based in the suburbs of Verona, averaged 8,589." COME ON!!!! that's the stats from before the ban. So let me get this straight, you're saying AC Milan was found guilty in a court, and punished, but that it was never proven? wow, where's the reasoning? Or I could always just mention to Totonero scandal to point out the fact that AC Milan has cheated in the past, and been relegated for it. "Highest Scoring of the Big 3" who says that is good? that just means you have a great disproportion between quality attackers and crap defenders/GKs. I also love how you make it "Big 3", when no one else has ever done so. Go do a google search for "Big 3 soccer leagues", I found 0 results. look at the G14, there are just as many German teams in there as there are English, Spanish and Italian teams.