Having a bye week after the team’s best game of the season is a double-edged sword. On the one side, you get extra time for all those injuries to heal up. On the other, you lose momentum. Hard t...
Let’s start this off with the biggest shocker: when did you last see a graphic like this? This shows the Legion’s overall shooting in this game. In total, the Three Sparks racked up 32 sho...
So…the big question: where has this team been all year? This was, by a very wide margin, the best game the Legion has played in 2026 and probably since 2024 at least. Well, the obvious answer i...
There were two USL Championship games played in midweek, both cross-conference games, ending 2-2 between Hartford Athletic and Orange County SC and Sacramento Republic beating Rhode Island FC 2-1. The...
With the holiday weekend (which yours truly spent in California) and the World Cup going on, we have not had a chance to review any games, including the two Birmingham Legion games, so this will be ye...
It’s going to be a busy holiday weekend for the boys in black and gold, er, white and gold, er, red, white and blue, er, camo, er, gray? Great. How much of my hard-earned money do they want? Jok...
Despite a postponement, 3 byes and 4 teams playing USL Cup games, there were still 12 Championship games this week. In those games 32 goals were scored. 19 of those were in just 3 games. A lot to unpa...
Tomorrow completes a packed schedule for the Legion, who will have 11 days off before a 2-game Independence Day weekend. They also have to do it on long-distance transcontinental travel after a hard-f...
At this stage in the proceedings we would normally be posting a report card on the individual players. We have chosen to skip that this time around. First, because this was an all-around team effort. ...
This loss was a hard one to swallow given that the team played a generally good game. The first Las Vegas goal resulted from an unfortunate deflection right to Oalex Anderson’s head and the Legion was...