It’s been a crazy week for yours truly, so here’s another quickie rankings post. A few surprise results this week, but the Pittsburgh Riverhounds and El Paso Locomotive continue to tear it...
So, we are down to the Elite Eight in the 2023 edition of the US Open Cup. 6 MLS teams, 2 USL Championship teams. Your very own Birmingham Legion is of course one of those two, and of the other 23 USL...
Legion WFC ended its season-opening road stretch on a down note, losing 1-4 to the Chattanooga Red Wolves Sunday evening. Or night, rather, given that the game was delayed two hours due to lightning. ...
Yes, we know that the Legion are off this week for a much needed rest ahead of Wednesday’s big game (which we will address in a later post), but that doesn’t mean the league is taking a br...
Well, we’re back from vacation and trying to catch up on what’s been happening around the league. It doesn’t look like there were too many surprising results in our absence, so here&...
This Wednesday at 7:00pm possibly the most significant game in the Legion’s history will be upon us. Some will argue that last season’s first ever home playoff retains that honor, and it&#...
Just a quick post to let you all know that the Football Forge will be a bit quiet, if not completely silent, until June 1st. Mrs. Forge and I will be taking a cruise from Athens (Greece, not Georgia) ...
The Legion are on a 3-game skid in the league and looking entirely vulnerable. What are their chances this week? The most important part The big issue as far as this game is concerned is that the Thre...
We haven’t reported on the new Legion team in the USL W League much so far, but times are moving on and the team is getting ready to start its inaugural season. Indeed, that will happen this Fri...
Across 12 games this week an impressive 45 goals were scored. Despite that, 3 teams managed not to score. Which means that the 21 teams who did score averaged 2.14 goals between them. Only 1 game had ...