Tik Martins lived a wild and scandalous life prior to his time at Austin FC.
Month: May 2022
Know Your Foe: LAFC
Tonight, the Verde & Black return to the site of their unveiling under wildly different circumstances. Gone are the “just happy to be here” vibes of an expansion team, having been replaced with a gritty mix of veterans and young talent fighting early in the season for a playoff spot.
A New Chicken Caretaker in Town
I’ve been a skeptic about our chickens ever since the idea was first introduced by Louis de Ludovico and my skepticism turned to hatred when they initially attacked me. Since then the chickens and I have gone through a glastnost into an uneasy detente I felt like I would have been the 6th or at…
MLS Cheering Guide – Match Day 12
For the first time this season, MLS will give us a pretty full slate of mid-week matches to satiate our soccer needs. Ten games are scheduled for action tomorrow night and thanks to the late kickoff in L.A., us ATX fans will be able to catch most of the action before the main event. So let’s start figuring out to cheer for on hump day!
Josh Wolff’s Potential Burner Accounts – a False Nine Investigation
I’m sitting in a rocking chair on a porch in the outskirts of the Austin area. The air is warm, a cooling breeze pleasantly wafting through as I rock gently back and forth in a wooden rocking chair. The slight creak of the wooden deck, a reminder of my movement, keeps a steady rhythm. I…
The Quest for a Decent 5% Beer in Utah
Instead of doing our traditional road match recap (since let’s face it, you don’t want to read a recap about us blowing a lead after Dani’s red card), we decided to take a different approach on our different trip to Utah. First off, we had my colleague Alistair Dennis write a piece that likely got…
The False Nine Mailbag
It’s been a trying time in Austin FC fandom, and not just because of the results on the pitch, so we thought it would be a good time to open up the mailbag and listen to our readers. Who else would be keeping track of Wolff’s shirt color? The Striker? Moontower? We Are Austin TV?…
Know Your Foe: Real Salt Lake
At the conclusion of tonight’s game, Austin FC will be just about one-third of the way through the MLS season. Seems like it was just a week or two ago that we were all freezing at Q2 Stadium while watching Verde pour in five goals in back-to-back weeks to start the season. And yet even…
O Rio!
My beloved hens and I are usually a stoic bunch. Excitement for us is when Tomlinson’s has ethcially-sourced, pelleted feed on sale. But, our normal, unflappable selves were tested as El FC lost to the Carson Galaxy. The chickens predicted a 1-1 draw and were probably right. Seriously. Look at that xG! Without a doubt,…
MLS Cheering Guide – Week 11
For the first time this season, we enter a full MLS stretch where teams are playing three games over the course of 8 or 9 days, thus the cheering guides will be coming in hot and fast. We’re about to find out which teams have real depth and which ones don’t. Remember, I’m here to…