BRITISH COLUMBIA
Avid Thoughts- No to Keith, Abby Canucks, Olympics are still happening and Football’s Coming Home
*This was originally posted July 4, 2021* I really hope you enjoyed last week’s edition of Avid Thoughts because that one was fun to write. Here is the second edition of the temporary column that is in place of the Avid Discussers Podcast for the time being. I am writing these on my living room […]
Avid Thoughts- Old Rookies, the Final no one saw coming, and My God…this heat
*This was originally posted June 26, 2021* As you may or may not know by now, my podcast The Avid Discussers Podcast is on hiatus. No, I am not sick, and no, it’s not because I am still emotionally scarred by the Your Lie in April anime. ( I moved on but I can’t watch […]
Northern Super League: Get ready for kick-off
Northern Super League founder Diana Matheson said over the past few days, everyone has been asking her what she’s feeling. And why not? For more than three years, Matheson has been working tirelessly to launch the professional women’s soccer league in Canada, the first of its kind in the country, and that all comes to […]
The Whitecaps have an opportunity to captivate Vancouver
It doesn’t feel real that the Vancouver Whitecaps are playing this well. They are coming off a 5-1 dismantling of Austin FC over the weekend. They are also coming off a massive victory over Pumas UNAM in the CONCACAF Champions Cup and will face Inter Miami and that Lionel Messi guy (assuming he shows up […]
Brian White’s four goals lifts Whitecaps emphatically past Austin
Every once in a while, every touch just…goes…right. That was the case today for Brian White as his four goals helped Vancouver Whitecaps demolish one of the best defences in MLS in Austin FC. The match finished 5-1 with the other Whitecaps’ goal coming from Emmanuel Sabbi. Daniel Pereira had the lone Austin goal in […]
Tristan Blackmon’s Late Goal Sends Whitecaps to CONCACAF Semis
The Vancouver Whitecaps needed a miracle and it came. They pulled off one of the greatest wins of their MLS era. They did it at the Estadio Olímpico Universitario in Mexico City with the altitude and without Ryan Gauld, Sam Adeugbe and Jayden Nelson. It looked like their CONCACAF Champions Cup dreams were over, but […]