Editorial | Tuesday 14 February 2012 by Richard Blayney
With everything gone a little quiet in the western front, with the western front being the TFC training camp, I thought I’d take a minute to go off on a little rant about everything I am beginning to dislike about football at the other side of the pond — the football I grew up watching, supporting, following and loving. Maybe more than ever the way it is being covered — scandal, gossip and rumour upon scandal, gossip and rumour — has left me longing for the return of the MLS and in particular, TFC, to get my football fix and to watch games without the circus and sideshow that has become part and partial of following the Premier League. Maybe for a while the in depth, hyper-analysis, gossip loaded coverage was interesting, amusing and entertaining, but the way it is going and the depths to which it is sinking, has been losing patience altogether.
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The nutmeg | Wednesday 18 January 2012 by Richard Blayney

Mancini tries to inform the referee as to the decision to be made
Is it just me or does it seem that by the year… no wait, scratch that . . . by the week, yes does it seem that by the week footballers are getting more petty and more hyocritical? If it isn’t players like Wayne Rooney demanding a transfer one season in order to get a pay rise only to score a goal last week and celebrate by kissing the badge, or Arsene Wenger complaining that a Swansea player dived to win a penalty against his club, considering what his club have done in the past, then it’s Roberto Mancini and his waving of imaginary red cards and other players having the cheak to complain about it, or the same man moaning about two-footed tackles on opponents…
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Editorial | Monday 12 September 2011 by Richard Blayney
This might fly in the face of everything that the MLS holds dear and true, and for that matter, everything the American culture holds true in its ‘land of opportunity go out there and make something of yourself’ ideals, but I, generally speaking from a financial side of things, like the MLS the way it is. Where has this come from you might ask?
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