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Canada’s Gold Cup hopes were ended by a scrappy injury time equaliser from a Panama corner in a must win game, leaving Canada as the unlucky third placed team to not progress. In all honesty though there cannot be any complaints. The Canadians were the ninth best team in the tournament, in fact you could [...]

Matt and Pompey are back and as a special treat are joined by TSB superstar Zach Lawton to discuss Canada’s unconvincing start to the Gold Cup. The guys review Canada’s two group matches against the USA and Guadeloupe and look ahead at the prospect of Panama and beyond. If that isn’t enough Canadian football for you, [...]

Canada played a ten men Guadeloupe team for the best part of 90 minutes and were lucky to come away with a 1-0 victory. The match started with a possibly harsh red card in the 4th minute for Guadeloupe’s Jean-Luc Lambourde for a mistimed, albeit rash, tackle on Will Johnson, so early in the game [...]

In a long line of quirky penalty incidents this one must surely be number 1! A playoff final in Italy’s lower league saw Dro take on Termeno for promotion to the sixth flight of Italian football. The game went to penalties and the teams were tied at 4-4…….and then this happened.

Canada took on the Americans full of hope of securing a favourable result, but was never really in the game as they went down 2-0 in Detroit. Josh Simpson gave Canadians hope with promising a run in opening seconds down the left, but that was a rare moment of glory for Canada. The USA started [...]

Matt and Pompey are back for another week as the Gold Cup begins and Canada’s chances and expectations are discussed. Also on the bill are a review of FIFA’s mess, a tribute to Paul Scholes and a review of the post season transfers. The guys wrap up with some CSL talk as they prepare for [...]

The Windsor Stars were unable to halt SC Toronto’s perfect start to the season losing 4-2, after being reduced to 10 men in the 56th minute. Although not having the better of play, Windsor took the lead on 7 minutes with Filip Rocco converting a corner kick unmarked at the back post. SC Toronto didn’t [...]

The Canadians will be relieved to have not left BMO with nothing after another good performance against a South American team was ruined by two minutes of madness to see them go down 2-1, only to rescue a draw with a last minute equaliser. The first half was a very even game for the opening [...]