Snowligan

So the powers that be at the Radioactive Bees have unveiled the Queen Bees schedule for their inaugural WPSL season. In organisational terms, since we have no rosters to fully compare yet, there are some familiar names and some familiar places. There are even, already some NDSU players who will be familiar faces to Coach Robbins. (Although I will leave the roster analysis to others) There are also teams and places that are either unfamiliar or further afield, or both. The season starts and ends against what the club call Mpls Fire, but who call themselves Twin Cities Fire, Fire 98 SC or Fire SC 98 and who's HQ is seemingly a house in Shakopee with a Gmail account. Their extensive academy system appear to play all over the Twin Cities metro, but a 55.1 journo has spotted that their home games will be at Sea Foam Stadium, 281 Hamline Ave in St. Paul. Thankfully , they also announced a streaming deal for their games. Next up are the TwinStars, who need no introduction bu...

Up until tonight I thought UPSL had good taste in selecting its teams. Apparently not: Ladies and gentlemen, (re) introducing the self-aggrandizing cat ball clown show, FC Minneapolis. I believe the running tally is something like 21-0 they have lost in games against FC Fargo. But whatever, they spout PR nonsense about how great their club is, seemingly entirely based around their founder Ian Sendi. They claim association with a city they don't play in, and some kind of territorial right to the state of Minnesota - even though even in this league they are not the only Minnesotans (see also the rebirth of the hardworking failure that was Granite City FC in St Cloud) I don't really need to say anything else. Check my earlier posts on our games or read the league guff yourself: http://www.upslsoccer.com/news/united-premier-soccer-league-announces-midwest-co7 Stay well, stay warm. Soccer season is soon.