A Caution, is a Caution…is ALWAYS a Caution.

It’s always a downer when you’re all geared up and ready for a match, only to get an email notification that your game tonight has been cancelled, or rescheduled.  That’s what happened to me last night however, I was able to salvage what was left of my evening by catching the second leg of the Amway Canadian Championship semi final between Toronto FC and Montreal Impact.  Thankfully the game was very exciting and fairly high scoring as Toronto was losing on aggregate and needed a fairly high number of goals if they wanted any part in the final.  The blind mice for the night did a tremendous job of controlling the match without any major problems however, I did feel that there was an opportunity for a Montreal send off.

Football Myths – Part 2: I’m the Captain

Patrice Evra, Giorgos Karagounis, Steven Gerrard, Philipp Lahm, Fabio Cannavaro, Cristiano Ronaldo, Iker Casillas, and Lucio….What do they all have in common?

Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Lesson in Sporting Behaviour

At times, we often see and discuss match situation where Unsporting Behaviour is concerned.  I’m sure many of us can come up with countless accounts and stories of USB situations that we have all had to deal with at some point in our carerrs.  However, never would I imagine a situation such as this…

Ponder This (A Formal Reply to “larbitre”)

My good friend larbitre posted a great topic for discussion:

Detecting Tension between Players: The Second Look

…and this particular scenario got me thinking that there is an even more crucially important talking/learning point here – not to take away from larbitre’s point of taking the second look…which is also a very important tool in game management.  It was the second clip of Howard Webb at the 2010 WC.