The holiday season is often about celebrating love. With Don Garber showing us some rare love by releasing a schedule before Christmas, our hearts were temporarily warmed. Then, we quickly realized that we didn’t get the gift of matches at a random baseball stadium in New York, a weekend by the lake against a clueless…
Author: Travis McTravelFace
Travis McTravelface is the False Nine’s road correspondent. He pretty much lives on the road collecting way too many airline and hotel points supporting the Verde in todas partes.
The Comprehensive Guide to MLS Stadiums and Support
After having had a chance to visit CITYPark for last weekend’s match, I wanted to share a long overdue piece ranking the league’s stadiums and fan support in it. Unlike some of the other pieces here, I tried to write it from a more neutral perspective rather than a super biased Verde faithful. Tier 1:…
Leagues Cup Intro
Congrats! We have survived the first half plus of the MLS Season in 5th place in the West after this bizarre first two/thirds of the season. If you had told me, we would be in 5th back in February with the string of injuries we have dealt with, I doubt I would have believed you….
Ranking the Austin FC Road Wins
Since we are in the middle of an epic North American road trip from the swamps of South Florida where we only managed a draw to the prairies of Minnesota to the shadows of the whitecaps in British Columbia, I decided to look back on all 12 Austin FC road wins in the club’s history…
#WolffIn: A Rebuttal
My esteemed colleague, Uncle Tony P, wrote a piece yesterday arguing that the underlying data suggests that Josh Wolff should be sacked. Maybe because I am a patient man who is so used to dealing with travel delays that it’s second nature, but the piece struck me as a bit hurried. Look, no one is…
The US Open Cup-Why should you care?
Well this season hasn’t gotten off to the best start to say the least. We crashed out of CCL in a borderline unexplainable way, we are below the 9 out of 14 team playoff line in the Western conference (at least we still have time to recover on that front), and the injury bug has…
CONCACAF New Football Complex
Well tomorrow is our first road match of the season against Violette in Santiago in the Dominican Republic. Due to CONCACAF’s lack of organization, they didn’t even confirm they would sell tickets to us until a week before the match, so there sadly won’t be a large verde contingent on the island. So today, I…
Odds and Ends from the MLS Schedule Release
It may have taken a few days longer than expected, but we finally have an MLS schedule. As you can imagine, schedule release day is one of the compound’s favorite days of the year. We were somewhat ok with the delay as our compound was split between boycotting the World Cup (that crew is off…
CONCACAF Dreaming
Well, our season is over, and I think I am somehow the first one to get a post up on here after Sunday’s pathetic result in LA. What was not pathetic was our incredible road support. We managed to sell 284 tickets in the away section in 2 minutes. We had a rocking night before…
What matters on Decision Day?
Well, our guys in Verde like Georgia turf better than Cascadia turf. It’s honestly amazing that we got a 0-0 draw in Seattle last season since we have not won any points in our last 5 trips to the Pacific Northwest. Thankfully, there will be no playoff games on artificial surfaces this season. Speaking of…