Generic media/team DC United coverage thread (this stuff doesn't deserve it's own thread)

Wayne Rooney travelling to UK overnight - expect him at @dcfcofficial later on Tuesday.
Announcement later on him becoming a player-coach at club.

— Jim White (@JimWhite) August 5, 2019

Thx,

Jay!

 

In the event of hitting an iceberg, women & children are first to the lifeboats!

 

Live look at Levien

 

Cannot blame him if his wife wants the kids back in the UK.

Now what Levien?

 

A long walk off a short pier?

 

Derby County announcing officially that they hired Rooney.

⚽ 359 career goals
🦁 120 England caps
🏆 Premier League x5
🏆 League Cup x3
🏆 FA Cup x1
🏆 UEFA Champions League x1
🏆 UEFA Europa League x1
🏆 FIFA Club World Cup x1

— Derby County (@dcfcofficial) August 6, 2019

Derby County x @WayneRooney. ⚪⚫#WR32

— Derby County (@dcfcofficial) August 6, 2019

 

1158745413643644928 is not a valid tweet id

 

Perhaps they should have lived in DC and not in the sticks.

 

Umm, believe me they didn't live in the sticks. They lived in a very tony upscale area of Bethesda. Of course, if you look at a picture of their enormous mansion in the UK anyplace here is "the sticks."

 

Bethesda??

 

I hope the XFL is a disaster, but doubt it will. Those wraslin' folks know how to sell.

 

Did you forget how long the first version of the XFL lasted?

 

It didn't last because He Hate Me.

 

Maybe after the XFL folds, the DCU FO can hire one or two of them-thar wraslin' folks to handle (properly) all the horse tradin'.

 

Family is family and seems it was not DC or the sticks ... it was leaving the UK and his home .... not ever going to begrudge a player at his age (that is something all MLS teams need to think through about foreign DPs) who wants to take his family back home.

 

So proud and grateful to be back on the air tonight calling #UMDvGSO @BigTenNetwork after the hardest year of my life. Thank you all for your messages, love and support throughout my continued recovery. I’m still have work to do but I’m not done fighting 💪🏻#ConcussionAwareness pic.twitter.com/0kHYGBW3aj

— Lindsay Simpson (@lindsaysimpson) August 22, 2019

 

Good to see her back. As far as I've seen, there's been an informational Black Hole surrounding her recovery.

 

"Hardest year of my life"

Just a reminder--Levien went on Kojo after the stadium opened and said a railing hit her in the shoulder and had a chuckle about how it would be an event that went down in stadium lore.

 

Events like that show you how this organization is run at the top.

 

Two worst Brazilians ever. But then I think there was this other guy.

 

Washington Post poll of DC residents finds 6% say DC United is their favorite local team, up from 1% saying so in 2010 poll.

Note that this was a poll of District residents only, not anyone in Virginia or Maryland. Note also that the poll question gave a menu of Skins, Nats, Caps, Wizards, Mystics, United, or none of the above.

Story here

 

That is encouraging. Really.

MLS games have a specific time frame. You know when its going to be over. (Only NBA and NHL games come close, MLB games are interminable.) Thats important for modern fans. Loud and enthusiastic atmosphere helps, too. Always love it when the supporters start chanting "F*** You, Ref!".

Also, surprising in that Audi Field has the 2nd worst location and accessibility. Only Fed-Ex is worse.

 

I kind of agree with that assessment. Audi Field isn't bad in terms of location, it's just that Capital One is clearly the best, and Nats Park is slightly better than Audi Field.

 

Ditto with the proviso that Nationals Park is a genuine first class major league ballpark and Audi Field, for all its visibility, is just a glorified NCAA Division II football stadium. Even so, Audi Field is miles and miles ahead of where United was when it played at racoon-infested RFK.