The Portland Timbers played 4 matches in under 7 days starting last Thursday: two US Open Cup matches, on either side of a weekend tour of the USL1 deep South, to play the top 2 teams in the USL, the Carolina Railhawks and Charleston Battery. A 9 game streak without a loss was on the [...]
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PTFC2K9: Thunder and Lightning
Not a whole lot of people wanted to go outside on Thursday, and who could blame them–that was one hell of a storm. But the Portland Timbers had a game to play, and though many had to brave the elements to get to the game, the game itself was only sprinkled with steady rain.
The [...]
PTFC2K9: Firing on all cylinders
Portland’s most magical weekend—well perhaps its most family friendly magical weekend— was the perfect setting for a Timbers team to take on the Vancouver Whitecaps, last year’s league champions and the only team who has beaten the Timbers this year.
I always like games against Vancouver because of the rivalry, the history, and the away support [...]
PTFC2K9: Doing donuts in your High School stadium
There are two types of games that end 0-0, the exciting games, and the utterly boring, tear your hair out, consider the possibility that the trolls might be right about this sport games. Somehow, when the Portland Timbers headed to Cleveland to play the newly ‘promoted’ Cleveland City Stars on Saturday night, we saw a [...]