Good Friday morning Caps fans. I hope you all are having a great week and that you’re gearing up for the weekend. It was a busy week in Canadian soccer but, sadly, not for the Whitecaps, who had to watch the Voyageurs Cup get handed out from home. It was an eventful Wednesday in Montreal, however, with Forge upsetting the home side in penalty kicks … Continue reading Coffee with the Caps, Friday October 23
Good Monday afternoon Caps fans. I hope you all had a lovely weekend and are gearing up for the week ahead. The Caps got back to winning ways in Austin, turning around a 1-0 halftime deficit into a 2-1 win. It wasn’t a great performance from Vancouver, but I thought they did enough to merit the three points. Outside of Myrto Uzuni’s goal, which came … Continue reading Coffee with the Caps, Monday October 19
Good Friday morning Caps fans. I hope you all are having a good week and that the weekend is beckoning. The Caps survived a do-or-die showdown with red-hot St. Louis City, grabbing a 0-0 draw and maintaining their spot at the top of the Western Conference. This was a tale of two halves. The Caps were very good in the first half, piling on the … Continue reading Coffee with the Caps, Friday October 16
Good Monday morning Caps fans — hope you all had a lovely weekend and are having a happy Thanksgiving. Despite the Caps not returning to winning ways, it was still a successful weekend trip to LA. Despite playing down a man for 83 minutes, the Caps grabbed a well-deserved point and could make the case that they were the better side in their 1-1 draw … Continue reading Coffee with the Caps, Monday October 12
Good Friday afternoon Caps fans. I hope you all are having a good week and that your weekend is beckoning ever closer. The Caps’ five-game road trip got off to a rocky start in Chicago, as they fell 3-1 to the Fire in a match they sorely needed at least a point out of. Vancouver was not helped by one of the worst pitches I’ve … Continue reading Coffee with the Caps, Friday October 9
Good Monday morning Caps fans. I hope you all had a lovely fall weekend and that your week is off to a good start. We got a break from the Whitecaps this weekend, but that hiatus won’t last much longer, as they will travel to Chicago to take on the Fire on Tuesday. Apple TV executives must have been jubilant when Robert Lewandowski was suspended … Continue reading Coffee with the Caps, Monday October 4
Good Friday morning Caps fans, hope you all are having a lovely start to October and that your weekend is beckoning ever closer. This was the first time in a while that we didn’t have a midweek match, but it was still a busy week in Caps world. The big news, which has good and bad elements embedded within it, is that the Whitecaps will … Continue reading Coffee with the Caps, Friday October 2
Good Monday morning Caps fans. I hope you had a lovely weekend and that the start of your week is going well. October is somehow among us. Well, any neutrals who watched the Caps draw DC United 3-3 on Saturday were rewarded with one of the more entertaining MLS games in recent memory. For us partisans, however, it was another bout of frustration against an … Continue reading Coffee with the Caps, Monday September 28
Good Friday morning Caps fans. I hope you all are having a good week and that your weekend is filled with rest and relaxation. This is the first week in awhile that there hasn’t been a midweek match to digest in this column but there has been plenty of goings on. We appear to be in much the same place that we have been on … Continue reading Coffee with the Caps, Friday September 25
Good Monday morning Caps fans. I hope you all had a lovely weekend and are gearing up for a good week ahead. The Whitecaps got a badly needed win on Saturday night against an RSL team that is fully in free fall. Typically, this is a no-win sort of matchup: RSL has been in such bad form that winning doesn’t get you much credit, while … Continue reading Coffee with the Caps, Monday September 21