Snowligan

Someone the other day was talking about what to do when clubs have no graphic design impetus. I can't do anything about that. I have no graphic design skill. That would be my brother, who I have no intention of dragging into #nonleaguelife Having been a founding investor in a team that subsequently went bust, I am gonna concentrate on what I know best. Passionate communication. Fans need to have autonomy from clubs, and symbiosis. I was just pondering the recently announced Dakota Fusion schedule and thought it would be cool to have a nickname for the team that had a separate life from the club and its (to be honest, stilted) official nickname. Maybe it was just my European allergy to teams with nicknames embedded in their formal name. It also doesn't help that Dakota Fusion have actually yet to play a home game in the Dakotas and have no ties to the Dakota people. So, just for the hell of it, I have decided to re-christen this team the Radioactive Bees. Call it a h...

Out of the provisional "Central conference", the National Premier Soccer League have created an official "North conference. For a conference wide update, check out NPSL Northerner or NPSL themselves Of most import to me, Dakota Fusion are one of the newcomers. Here's their press release: BREAKING NEWS FOR NORTH DAKOTA SOCCERWORLD No need to shout, DF. Dakota Fusion Becomes Full Member of the NPSL . Dakota Fusion FC is excited to announce that it will join the NPSL beginning in the summer of 2017. Seems fair so far. DFFC is the first locally owned semi-professional soccer club in Fargo, ND. I'm not gonna let this slide. It is a snide and ultimately empty "first" because FC Fargo were the first competitive outdoor amateur team in Fargo-Moorhead. Semi-Pro isn't actually a thing in the US system. You are either professional (MLS, USL, NASL - at time of writing) or amateur (everything else) Launched by Amanda and Sajid...