Photo borrowed from the blog Jargon Scott Nishimura is all smiles. Click for more amazing Timbers pictures Hi Folks, your itinerant Timbers Blogger is reporting in from a remote jungle location. I had to bribe a monkey with cigarettes and a rickshaw driver with bananas to get to an internet cafe to post this, but […]
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PTFC2K9: The Streak is Dead, Long Live the Streak
The Portland Timbers went into Thursday’s game with a 24 game unbeaten streak in USL play—they hadn’t lost since the first game of the season—but also barely escaped Charleston 0-0 on the road the week before, playing a style of play that could be charitably described as lethargic. The Timbers were at the top of […]
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PTFC2K9: Occasional letters from an amazing season
I feel a special kind of sorrow when I don’t write about the Timbers after every game. I’m sure no one minds, yet I feel like I’m letting down the club and my fellow Army denizens who so proudly and voraciously promote the Timbers and associated causes. I feel especially bad for not covering the […]
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PTFC2K9: Epic Moments
Tomorrow, the Portland Timbers take on the Seattle Sounders in the second round of the US Open Cup. There is no deeper, more hateful, or hotly contested rivalry in American Soccer. These teams hate each other, and if the Sounders had fans, they’d hate us. As it is, they have customers, who are starting to […]
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PDX2K9: Three match Sunday
Most American Soccer fans were excited about Sunday because the US Mens National Team, so long the butt of jokes around the world, had pulled off an improbable win (3-0 against African Champions Egypt), followed by a Holy Fucking Shit Did That Just Happen? win (2-0 against European Champions Spain, whose squad collectively earn something […]
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PTFC2K9: A Whipping for the Ages
Jeeeez, am I late with this one. Pertinent news first, I suppose: the Timbers face the Montreal Impact today, 5pm at PGE Park. Be there. Even more Important, the Timbers face their nemeses, the Shittle Sounders, on Wednesday, 7pm, at PGE Park. That will be an event worth witnessing. Be there too. There’s also a […]
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PTFC2K9: whirlwind weeks
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 […]
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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 […]
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PTFC2k9: Beachfront Points and Burnley cometh
I’d feel guilty about not getting these match reports out sooner, but I waited long enough to have news to break! The Portland Timbers headed for a weekend of games in Puerto Rico last weekend (sorry I’m late!) and played extremely well given the conditions (hot and muggy) and the stadium (crap pitch). Also, the […]
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PTFC2k9: Crushing sadness, Thrilling victory
Thursday’s game was cast under a shadow before it started: Hartmut Bless, a longtime Timbers Army member known as ‘Timber Howie,’ (I called him ‘The General’) passed away. Howie was always the first in the park, always standing in front of the same seat, and one of the kindest, most welcoming and encouraging people I’ve […]
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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 […]