Category Archives: Taylor Twellman

Last unbeaten team in action tonight

FC Dallas has the distinction of being the last remaining unbeaten team in this 2008 MLS season. Two draws followed by 2 wins has FC Dallas in third place on the single table and top of the West. Tonight they face off against annual MLS Cup runners up New England Revolution at Pizza [...]

Do the DP’s have to be old timers?

In order for the LA Galaxy to bring David Beckham to Major League Soccer the rules had to change.  The salary cap was too small for Beckham to fit on any team by himself, so the league added DP’s which only count toward some of your salary cap.  After that the team can pay that [...]

Eddie Johnson on his way to Fulham?

Is Eddie Johnson on his way out of Kansas City to play for Fulham?
The Daily Mail reports that Eddie “the Juice” Johnson has left the US National team training camp which is a sign that a deal with Fulham is near.   Johnson has had an up and down career recently with the Kansas City Wizards.  [...]

A reminder of where MLS fits into this world of soccer leagues

So we’ve already heard about Twellman’s transfer to Preston North End not once but twice.  Now Twellman is mad about the situation he’s in.  Preston is willing to buy Twellman from MLS for $2.5 million but the offer has been rejected.  When Twellman asks the Revolution about it, they say MLS has rejected the deal.  [...]

Twellman stays (again), but Mathis is headed to Europe

Just a couple days ago I wrote about MLS rejecting a bid for Taylor Twellman.  Well they’ve done it again.  This time Preston North End has offered over twice their inital offer.  They upped the $800,000 up to around $2,000,000 and the MLS has again rejected this offer.  Preston have no intentions of going any [...]

MLS rejects bid from England for Twellman

Preston North End are currently in last place in the English Coca Cola Championship.  They need a proven goal scorer and apparently want that guy to be Taylor Twellman.  The New England Revolution have reportedly turned down an $800,000 offer that would take Twellman to England to play the Championship’s last place team.  Former MLS [...]

MLS Cup predictions

My predictions started out so well but turned so bad and I don’t think that will change today.  I may as well just admit defeat now and not even try, but I’m stubborn so here goes.   I’m going to pick the Revolution to end their terrible streak of not winning the Cup.  Taylor Twellman scores [...]

MLS bicycle kicks - history of goals

In my search for a video of that nice Taylor Twellman goal from last nite I came across this video that shows some of the best in the history of MLS. Carlos Ruiz makes the video twice and TT would now have 2 appearances in it. None of them match Balboa’s goal though. [...]

Predicting the postseason

Well a weekend full of season ending games and a couple more end of the year awards have been finalized. How are my predictions going?
I correctly predicted that the 4th seed Chicago Fire took out overall league leaders DC United.
I also predicted that the 5th place (East) Kansas City Wizards would defeat 1st place [...]

New England Revolution Are US Open Cup Champions!

The New England Revolution got goals from Pat Noonan, Taylor Twellman and Wells Thompson to top FC Dallas in tonite’s US Open Cup.  FC Dallas scored goals by Arturo Alvarez and Abe Thompson.
This is the first major trophy for the New England Revolution.  They have been runners up in both the US Open Cup and [...]