Soccer in the Time of Cholera

We break out – without breaking out – to break it all down during The Plague Year.

Thorns FC: Memory Box 5 – Best XI

Legends in red and black.

Thorns FC: Memory Box 4 – Power of the Night

Under the lights but often struggling in the dark

Statutory Requirements

We’ve had a couple of “best of” sorts of posts in a row – kits, tifos – so I thought I’d add a third. It’s pretty straightforward. Who else gets a statue? If she doesn’t get immortalized in bronze at the corner of 18th and Morrison the year she retires, Christine Sinclair has my permission […]

Thorns FC: Memory Box 2 – The Loved Ones

The Loved Ones…

Thorns FC: Memory Box 1 – The Enigmas

Let’s talk about some favorite (and maybe not-so-favorite) Thorns..!

Thorns FC: Drafts and Deals, Part 1

While we’re waiting for the delayed season to start…let’s discuss the club’s offseason moves!

Thorns FC: Wild Card

In the old movie this is where the editor runs into the newsroom shouting “STOP THE PRESSES!!!” To me this is intriguing on a number of levels: First, because without Macario I don’t see the #1 pick on this draft being worth all that much. Certainly not worth a subsidized player. Certainly not worth a […]

Thorns FC: Draft Card

Well, so far it’s been an underwhelming NWSL off-season everywhere but in Australia. And we’ll talk about Thorns Down Under some time in late January or early February. Whole Lot o’ Nothin’ The hoped-for 2020 NWSL expansion is officially deader’n the passenger pigeon. Sacramento, for reasons that have still not been fully explained, was unable […]

Thorns FC: Final Grades – The Coaches, Trainers, and Management

I thought I’d said enough about last season, until I realized that I hadn’t got to where the buck really stops; the coaching and training staff and the club management. So in this final, final-grades post I want to discuss what in the Army we liked to call the “echelons above reality”; the people who […]