Since, some of you have started following this series after the first post, there were multiple requests to explain what a magic number is, so I’ll kick into that before gushing about our 4-1 thrashing of LAFC. The magic number is the number of points we need to gain to be one point higher than…
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.
Magic Number Update 4
Well, Austin FC picked up its first road loss in nearly three months on Saturday night in Minnesota. If you had told us at the beginning of the season that a road run to Montreal, Charlotte, Colorado, Atlanta, Frisco, and Kansas City would have led to 16 points in 18, we would have all thought…
Magic Number Update 3
Well DC United tried their hardest to stay competitive with LAFC on Tuesday night, it simply wasn’t enough for Wayne Rooney’s men, especially once they were down to 10 men. At this point, LAFC is 9 points above us, and they only need 19 more points to eliminate us and clinch home field advantage. Even…
Magic Number Update 2
Well, the Verde and Black somehow pulled out a win on Saturday night with the second best comeback of the season, and officially eliminated Sporting Kansas City from finishing above Austin FC. We have avoided ending up with the Anthony J. Precourt Memorial Wooden Spoon (yes, that’s its real name) for another season! I still…
Magic Number Watch-Edition 1
Welcome to the latest feature here on the False 9, Magic Number Watch! Since many of us here are also baseball fans, we wanted to apply a baseball concept to MLS, known as the magic number. Around this time of year, baseball fans start looking towards the magic number to know how many games their…
The Chickens are onto Kansas City, Kansas
Well, that was a match last week against the Red Bulls. Sadly, chickens can’t predict COVID cases, because they would have predicted a different result without Brad Stuver. Thankfully, we have seen Stuver in training this week, so we don’t need to make dual predictions. After our triumph in Frisco, I was supposed to take…
Post-Charlotte Thoughts from flying somewhere over Middle America
Good Afternoon, eastern conference leaders! Instead of my normal more focused article, I am going to let my mind drift this afternoon as I fly across our beautiful country from Charlotte to Denver before Denverde 3.0 on the 4th of July. It’s really too bad that we don’t play in the bonus conference since I…
So what happened to Ted Unkel in Montreal? We have 9 Theories
As your faithful travel correspondent, I was ready to write my normal review of Montreal and the Stade Saputo. It was a great away win, especially with 10 men for the Verde, even with our False 9 led performance in the stands, being among the weakest of the campaign. The poutine was good (even if…
Let’s make away matches more affordable for MLS Fans
We decided to do something we never done before and partnered with The Striker Texas to publish this piece. While all of you should be subscribers to the Striker (since they are good at doing their thing, just as we aim to be good at doing our thing), we did want to put this piece…
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…