Shrewd analysts of financial statements tread carefully when companies talk of maximizing synergies. When a soccer league does it? Well, you know it’s preposterous bollocks. #franchiseball

That fancy new rebrand making immediate changes to the USL’s reputation among fan groups...

Well, look here on the old Columbia University network. Tomorrow in Mumbai. It’s an “Ethics and Values in Global Sports” lecture by Sunil Gulati! Wouldn’t exactly be my pick. And no, he’s not a professor.

America’s equivalent of the FA Cup Final. Played tonight in front of 4,000 fans. #franchiseball

Sure, a noon kickoff in Glasgow for a national semifinal against a team from Glasgow is rough on Aberdeen fans. But wait until the SFA gives us 7,000 tickets for a 52,000-seat stadium.

“The league has their business plan and strategy, which we do not take part in,” says U.S. Soccer spokesperson in perpetual absence of Carlos Cordeiro. Don Garber will disagree, given he says Major League Soccer is uniquely joined at the hip with its governing federation.

Too bad Bill Edwards didn’t get the artificial scarcity boost of MLS expansion to help fund his legal battles before selling.

They never show the full sequence. United get possession seconds later and Giggs tries to beat Waddle with sheer pace, over-runs the ball out of touch, and the Owls fans get in his face giving him pelters! Wonderful stuff. 😃

USL to Queens? Heck, why not. Everyone will have forgotten about their previous debacles there by now. 🙈

19 years this month since that epic Music Hall / Motherwell FC 5 Aberdeen FC 6 show... The Charlatans still going strong at U Street Music Hall Presents.

A rant.

Kathryn Mayorga, according to Der Spiegel’s investigation, would appear to have come into contact with “this great champion.” Involuntary contact. Pretty odious remark from the club that stitched up Calcio for decades.

This might not be a petty, vindictive act by governing authorities that are not fit for purpose in response to deserved criticism for their shambolic handling of Scotland’s national cup semifinals. But it doesn’t look that way.

Lest anyone forget that infamous occasion in Nov ‘95 when Gascoigne head butted Paul Bernard, elbowed two other Aberdeen players in the head and didn’t even get a yellow card from John Rowbotham. Scottish FA’s transparent bias is nothing new.

Sure, but did King Joey ever play an imaginary flute to ham it up Orange Walk style for thousands of bigots?

And right on cue after standing down from the kickoff time debacle, the SPFL stitches up the ticket allocation for a “neutral” semifinal. Scottish fitba’s governing bodies still stuck in the 1690s.

Thread. 👇 It continues to amaze that a small percentage of American soccer fans still pay to attend domestic pro games.

Oh jeez.... about 8 years after Paul Kelmsley’s NY Cosmos did this.... only with a crappy ad that barely registers... and zero hope of pulling in Cantona. 🙈

$15 to visit the new National Soccer HOF? That’s SUM racket.