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Fuck what a mess. Between him and Crepeau, just a lousy day. Fingers crossed for tomorrow is not too severe

As with any asset, a club is only worth what someone is willing to pay. In this case, FC Edmonton has tens of millions in debt, no assets, minimal revenue opportunities, and a dozen years of a city rejecting them. They have no value. Period. 
Letting FC Edmonton fold and putting in a new club later on does not work here. Fath is going to fight any club that tries to pop up as he feels he is entitled to recoup his lost money from the NASL days.  Perhaps one day in the not-so-near future people are willing to pay the kind of dollars Fath wants to acquire those kind of rights, but the dollar ask is completely out of touch with reality in 2022.
So as a result, Edmonton is going to soon be without professional soccer due to an owner who claimed he wanted to do something nice for the city, but in reality just wanted to reduce his taxes, is holding the city hostage. Bravo...

i really hope this isn’t true

Similar study - this time on NCAA soccer players.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4532185/
 
average return to play was 7 days for men. The range was 1-156 days with  75% of players returning within 4 to 12 days.

Jeez, some day this turned out to be eh?

I’m an Arabic speaker, have lived in the Gulf, and have close friends from Morocco so very familiar with the context overall.
Yes it’s true that Qatar has an overwhelming expat majority, but that won’t be reflected in the local ticket sales. Qatari citizens are the wealthiest in the population and have the most disposable income.
 
I watch tQatari sports tv on occasion and the national teams they are most partial to, outside of their own, in early build up are the Moroccans and Saudis. Pan-Arab identity has lost its political currency but remains popular in sporting and cultural events like this one.
As you’ll see in link I shared in my previous post the Arab Cup, which Qatar hosted is a dry run for the World Cup attracted huge travelling support from Morocco and also had locals cheering the team on. I have no doubt it’ll be the same here.
That the team is majority foreign-born matters little, as far as crowd dynamics go.

I just finished watching the latest We Can video on Youtube. Got to remembering now well Crepeau played for us that window, including two huge results away to Mexico and home to Panama.
This is a big loss.

NFL teams risk their players' health constantly with poor medical decisions. Just ask Tua.

Even the deepest team would struggle to deal with the loss of one of the top 20 or 30 players in the world.

There are far more explosive movements in gridiron football than in soccer. I don't think there's a reason NFL players would regularly come back sooner from such an injury, aside from that sport's frequent disregard for the health of its players.

the one caveat about this is the average NFL play is what...10-15 seconds?  players are not continually in motion, and depending on what position (eg offense or defense, special teams, etc), may not see much game time vs what a soccer player does week in/ week out

I don't think it looked very serious, but that's just to say that it didn't look like he'll be out for several months. It could non-serious and he could still just miss the World Cup, so even a non-serious hamstring injury could be extremely serious within the current context.
All we can do is hope. We dodged a bullet with the kick to the face. Twice lucky?

This is a good study on hamstring strains (again, if it’s a serious tear than he’s out for Qatar and this study isn’t relevant)
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/48/11/929#ref-3
it analyzed hamstring strains in NFL athletes over 10 years and finds that:
41% of players with the injury returned in less than a week, another 41% returned between one and three weeks, and only 18% of injuries lasted longer than three weeks.
 

Wheeler is being ridiculous. The best case scenario is not disastrous. The best case scenario is Davies takes a week off and is fully fit for Qatar - and that’s still entirely possible.

Makes the bench today

This one is on Fubo. Hopefully he gets subbed on