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The Soccer Thread (Version 15) — I Got 115 Problems But a Pep Ain’t One
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Inky_Wretch
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Pro/rel comes to the USA ...
TrooperBari
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And somewhere, a finger curls on a monkey's paw a BigSoccer Senior Member bought by selling their never-worn Cobi Jones Coventry City shirt.
TrooperBari
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Twirling Time
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Pro-rel will work in the U.S. as long as each tier is seen as more or less near-equal. The Little 14 and the top of the Championship are largely perceived that way in the EPL. It helps that there are a large number of clubs that have been on either side of the divide over the last 15 years and going beyond that.
Cosmo
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Our local USL1 team:
Fuck around: Let's throw a bunch of academy teenagers out there for a home U.S. Open cup match and save our best players for the league match on Saturday. What could go wrong?
Find out: Lost 3-1 to a goddamn semipro team that plays at a high school stadium in Falls Church.
Nice way to celebrate the 30-year anniversary of the club's only U.S. Open Cup win.
Fuck around: Let's throw a bunch of academy teenagers out there for a home U.S. Open cup match and save our best players for the league match on Saturday. What could go wrong?
Find out: Lost 3-1 to a goddamn semipro team that plays at a high school stadium in Falls Church.
Nice way to celebrate the 30-year anniversary of the club's only U.S. Open Cup win.
Bubbler
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The only time I witnessed a US Open Cup match was totally random, but is considered one of the great upsets in the competition.
Went to Oregon for a baseball regional, but flew into Portland. Got there early enough to go to the Timbers Cup match against immortal Cal FC, a fifth-tier club.
The Timbers also fucked around and also found out. Scoreless regulation, including a missed penalty that was so bad it literally skied over my head behind the goal. Cal FC got a goal in extra time and it held up.
Pretty sure the Timbers coach was fired soon after. (Looked it up, it was about a month later.) I didn't know it at the time, but Cal FC's coach was Erin Wynalda, who I liked as a player, but who is a douche otherwise.
Cool stadium though. Saw it in its pre-renovation phase.
