As I noted elsewhere, if you find a vjdeo of the kerfuffle on the field, theres a guy in a white ball cap throwing haymakers at Miami players. That's our boy Steven. Its truly extraordinary, even if he wasnt the team mental health consultant. Which makes it an even worse look. As for the credentialing thing, apparently you need to have a league recognized credential of one kind or.another to sit on the bench and in the process of reviewing the situation they discovered that Lenhart doesnt have one. Which is, I guess, very bad.
History lesson for the newbs: Back in the day, there were six zones: STA got someone into the stadium and into the back of house area, which was under the north stands. LKR - Locker room FLD - Field (since been updated to different times during the game. Someone might have pregame and post-game access, but no access the rest of the time. Someone else might have unlimited access.) BOX - Press box HOS/HSP - Hospitality access got someone into the tent. This was removed after a few years when the tent became public access. In 2003, I believe the tent was still limited to club seats and suites. Full season holders in other sections got six passes per seat to use as they saw fit. By 2007, the tent had been public access for a few years. ALL - All access. There was also a credential "ALL STADIUMS" which maybe two or three Crew FO guys had and you can probably guess those names. When the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup rolled into town, everyone had various numbers 1-9 on their credentials and it was definitely a bit of fun trying to figure out what each number was good for. (IIRC, the infinity symbol was all access.) The best part of that was the free Adidas swag. The most "FIFA" part of that event was having to censor out part of a photo of the stadium because a Budweiser logo was visible in the photo. Because Bud Light was the sponsor, anything "Budweiser" had to go, so sayeth FIFA. At one time, I don't believe coaching staff needed a credential to be on the bench. People just knew "Oh, he's the coach. He's good." Obviously, those days are long gone. There were also different colors at one point. Media who didn't necessarily have field or locker room access could go in there with their blue credential, for example. There was a big notice on the backs: AUTOGRAPHS PROHIBITED DURING MEDIA ACCESS PERIODS or some such. It didn't say anything about referees receiving jerseys from visiting players. Very bad indeed.
I had STA and FLD for the Crew Chiefs. Along with the autograph ban, there was also a non-work-related photography ban as of 2011. Not before that, tho. I have 5-6 years of credentials. Mrs KG has a couple from when Crew Chiefs morphed to helping the Crew Soccer Foundation. Eventually they will go to the Columbus Historical Society and/or the Ohio History Connection. After that, as I recall, credentials were on a per game basis (like a sticker). That was a Precourt thing but also an MLS thing. They thought they were giving out too many credentials. Don't think I saved any of those.
Peter, I hate to be the one to break this to you but there aren't any newbs on BigSoccer. We've all be around a while. The kids don't come here.
Someone is getting rid of their Crew jersey collection.... https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nk...24.m570.l1313&_odkw=mls&_osacat=50116&_sop=10
Those Stern John 3 stripes are awesome. Maybe not $999 awesome, but way cool.. Eric Denton for a couple bucks is hilarious.
That's Nick Auddino. He does sales like this (very rare or desirable things, very overpriced) every so often.
Fron one of the descriptions: Columbus Crew MLS Eric Denton #6 Game worn signed jersey Got a red card ripped his jersey off threw it in the stands and no one wanted it so I took it and had him sign it. That's not entirely the truth, but do we expect honesty here?
The CONCACAF Champions Cup/League/whatever-it-was-then game that I remember Eric Denton with a torn black jersey was when all fans were on the lower west side. I remember sitting in 129/130 (between the benches and player tunnel) for the game and it was an area I would normally not have been in. The eBay seller in question was a few rows in front of me. He was normally just north of the player tunnel in 134. I remember him wearing an Eric Denton jersey when the jersey was tossed/given to him and commenting about how he "should give it away oh, that one's torn oh well" or something like that. This was the last CONCACAF match Eric ever played in. Depending on any statute of limitations, he might still have a one-game punishment. Do these things end when a player retires? Do they end after 20-whatever years? Is it a lifetime thing? I remember him giving the bird in front of 107-109 which was much closer to the southeast corner. So, to answer your question: While it was definitely a different game, I'm not sure.
I dunno, apparently he was out there, going after Miami players who were going after Seattle players. I would rate a mental health consultant highly if they are so concerned about my mental health that they are willing to take out an asshole or two who are trying to punch me. I think I heard that one of the people he went after, he was trying to keep them from hitting a Seattle player who he had already hit once. I'm surprised more Miami players didn't get the hammer.
So Marino Hinestroza's grabbing attention - and other things - in Colombia: https://bolavip.com/co/amp/nacional...-un-jugador-de-millonarios-y-no-ser-expulsado
Corey Wray has been hired by St Louis as their new Sporting Director. He lost a power struggle in Columbus and endured a year or so in Montreal working for the village idiot but now hes going to be running the show in STL. I greatly fear that hes going to prove that Haslam Sports made the wrong choice.
For as shit as Supoto is, people have had success there. They were good around 2015 with Drogba, good again with Nancy, made a CCC (as it was then) final, they were decent under Marsch. It's not like it's impossible to make the playoffs in Montreal.
They did make the play in game last year under Wray and Courtois. They collected some decent pieces that they turned around and sold.