No elbow room at PPL Park.

What was he thinking?

It was inevitable - here is my entry for 'A Song for Fernando'.

We thought we had the win in sight

On Friday night, Fernando.
    
He was scoring goals for you and me, almost got three, Fernando.

Though we never thought that we would lose, there was the ref.
 
If you can score two goals again, you’ll be my friend, Fernando.

If you can score two goals again,you’ll be my friend, Fernando.

According to Wikipedia the highest point in Colorado is Mt. Elbert at 6,800 feet and NOT 6 foot 7 center back, Axel Sjoberg nor man-mountain cry-baby Bobby Burling -  but just when we thought Burling’s dismissal had left our opponents with a mountain to climb, the Union’s rocky mountain high hopes came plummeting down to earth faster than Harrison Ford’s airplane as our stolid strikers made like they were playing in the Lot A mud and muck, however there were bright spots with an industrious, promising debut from Nando and not least the fact that Danny Cruz wasn’t even on the bench, so hey… it wasn’t all bad...   

THe Crew and RBNY games get a good going over and there is some Sons of Ben news to mull over.

Part 1B will be available for download later today (Friday).  Sorry this is so late but snow and ice conspired to confound us at every turn.

It’s time to dust off the grills, dig out of the snow and ice and get cracking on the 2015 season.  The lads are back, if only via Skype and maybe in preseason form themselves, but Stormin Gorman was down in Florida for the last three games, mingling with players, coaches, and team executives to run the ruler over everything and everyone to do with the U.  Take a listen to part one where we consider the changes made since the disappointing fizzle of the end of 2014 and go through the new look U...