Episode 640 – The AFTN Soccer Show (Worth His Weight In Gauld – Whitecaps dominate LAFC, what’s wrong with Vancouver FC?)
We’re back with another AFTN Soccer Show packed full of Vancouver Whitecaps, Major League Soccer, Vancouver FC, and Canadian Premier League chat.
It was a beautiful Sunday at BC Place, surely what that old Daniel Boone song was eluding to all those years ago. Vancouver Whitecaps not only kept their season alive, they did it in some style in a 3-0 win over LAFC. It was a victory that gives a lot of hope going into Friday’s ‘lose and you’re done’ game three decider in LA. We’re joined by Harjeet Johal to chat about the match, the main talking points coming out of it, and look ahead to the huge match coming up on Friday.
Turning our attention to the Canadian Premier League, we look at two familiar foes facing off in next weekend’s championship game, plus it’s our end of season Vancouver FC review, where we look at the good, the bad, and the ugly of the Langley side’s second season in the league. There’s a lot of focus on the last two there, and the last part of the show sees Michael explain all the things that he feels is wrong with VFC, with Zach offering some counter views.
All of this plus Prolapse kick off their residency as our Album of the Month, there’s more Britpop songs, and we have an Ipswich song as a tribute to Trevor Whymark in Wavelength.
Here’s the rundown for the main segments from the episode:
01.27: Intro – UBC champions x 2, college nationals, FA Cup drama
10.53: RIP Trevor Whymark and Alzheimer’s in football
16.20: Har goes to Hollywood – and LAFC
28.45: Whitecaps thrash LAFC to set up game 3 decider
66.05: It’s Cavalry v Forge again for the CPL championship
70.30: Vancouver FC end of season review
106.45: Everything that’s wrong with Vancouver FC
154.05: Wavelength – Edward Ebeneezer and Supporters – Come on the Town
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Great listen as always.
Surprised you didn’t mention the price of tickets for Vancouver FC. I feel tickets are overpriced. I’ve gone to 2 or 3 games in each of the first 2 seasons but the price has held me back from going to more. I’d rather take my family to a WFC2 game. I find the quality and value of WFC2 much better than VFC.
Had hoped to get into that. Might do at a later date. We already had to cut half an hour out without even getting to that point.