Once again. The rules were not rewritten. CONCACAF misinterpreted the original rules.
Atlanta - Postmatch - Eastern Conference Semifinals Leg 2
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Still? We covered this about a year ago.
Every national federation wrote its own rules. CONCACAF misread the USSF/MLS rules.
The studies on turf pellets show a higher incidence of cancer in women than men and in goalies vs field players. Very interesting...
There's a new pellet-less turf that's been installed that's supposed to be the most grass-like yet.
www.pureplaysportsturf.com
There's a new pellet-less turf that's been installed that's supposed to be the most grass-like yet.
www.pureplaysportsturf.com
We went through this in my hometown over a field that was switching from grass to artificial turf. There was lots of complaining about cancer risk. My wife, who is a doctor, thought it was all hogwash. A neighbor, also a doctor, thought it was a substantial risk. So, WTF knows?
In the end, the village opted for artificial turf with a natural infill from coconut fibers. I am on it most Sunday mornings for soccer, and it plays fine and the coconut is a lot less annoying than the ground up tires the field next door uses.
My guess is that no doctor would say that ingesting and inhaling ground up tires is without negative effects.
I've now read the Araos article in The Athletic. It kind of pisses me off. I get why someone might write it - and the incident is troubling - but overall a beat writer needs to be covering the team. He can't put in an article focusing on his own interactions with the coach if he isn't also doing the daily articles required of a beat writer. There was no game recap, no discussion of tactics, no article looking forward to next season or summarizing the current one.
If he wants to complain about poor treatment or even give an inside look at how a reporter builds a relationship with a coach, that's fine, but he needs to do the rest of it too.
On Oct 31, we won our first ever playoff match. The next day the only article was about 2-3 white nationalists attending matches. Now, we lose in the next round, and the only article is one about the coach directing profanity at a reporter after a frustrating loss.
It's not good enough.
That all may be fair. I don't read the Athletic, so I don't actually consume anything Araos writes. After his debacle a couple of years ago where he falsely claimed there was a Nazi flag at a game and ran with it, all based off of one random reddit user, and then didn't apologize for it, and didn't delete his original tweet on it, I was done with him.
And I get some of the backlash for what he did and didn't write here.
What I have absolutely no issue with is what he was asking in that interview, and that's all I was commenting on in my post. Those are questions that somebody should be asking. Whether it's Araos, NYCFC Nation, Crooks, or whoever.
He's not a beat writer. The Athletic has a different model -- he's just supposed to write features, not game recaps.
It's such a bad article and pissed off the sub base to the point his editor is now involved. Pretty comical at this point. If they were smart, they'd take him off the beat, especially since he has no more relationship with Dome
“But Yankee Stadium is an illegal field it is so small! What a joke that the league allows NYCFC to play on this 9x9 pitch” - Atlanta fans
I wish I could tell you it smells like a pina colada, but I don't spend enough time with my face on the turf to really know.
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