Matt and Pompey look back at the weekend’s action as Chelsea begin to look like champions, Manchester City win the hard way and Manchester United continue to look unimpressive in victory. The guys also look back at possibly Matt’s biggest prediction back fire in a long line of bad predictions. Also in the pod a [...]
Matt and Pompey are joined this week by Jon Cormier, host of fantasy podcast Subbed in the 59th, to pick over the carcass of Canada’s World Cup campaign and where the national team needs to go from here. The guys also look back at the last week in qualifying from Europe, Asia and the rest of the [...]
With Junior Hoilett still to commit his international future to Canada, the time has come for Canadians to show him where his international future lays. If you want to see him wearing the Maple Leaf crested shirt this summer sign your name and leave a comment below. Let’s show Hoilett the love and help him [...]
Matt and Pompey Canuck are back, and there couldn’t be more to talk about. The guys run the comb over the events at Old Trafford and give their thoughts on the situation the England national team finds itself in. There is also the financial woes of Rangers and Portsmouth as well as the CSA’s announcement [...]
Last night the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) announced that all of Canada’s forthcoming World Cup Qualifiers and friendly matches would be played in Toronto at BMO Stadium. The reason given was that this was where the players wanted to play and it would cut down on travel time. Now, given in the past Canadian players [...]
Britain Junior Hoilett played 90 minutes for Blackburn Rovers in the 3-1 away loss to Aston Villa in the English Premier League. Hoilett crossed the ball for Blackburn’s goal and was very impressive Simeon Jackson was a 84th minute substitute to make his Premier League for 10 man Norwich City in their 1-1 home draw [...]
Britain Iain Hume was substituted in stoppage in Preston 2-0 away win to Chesterfield in League One on Tuesday Gavin McCallum played 71 minutes in Lincoln’s 1-0 home loss to Kidderminster in the Blue Square Premier on Tuesday Rest of Europe Mason Trafford played 90 minutes and Luca Bellisomo was a half time substitute for [...]
It’s time to review how Canada’s footballers playing outside of North America got on for their clubs over the weekend. United Kingdom Simeon Jackson was an unused substitute for Norwich in their 1-1 away draw to Wigan in the English Premier League Junior Hoilett played 90 minutes for Blackburn in their 2-1 home loss to [...]
The new European season is underway, so it’s time to see what the Canadian players playing abroad are up to. With World Cup qualifying about to get underway it is crucial Canadians are playing and play well for their clubs. Be sure to stay tuned to The Subs Bench to keep track of how Canada’s [...]
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 [...]