At Last Night’s Board of Directors meeting, I was thrilled to be unanimously elected as President of The Vancouver Southsiders. These literally are big shoes to fill after the wonderful two years we have been led by John Knox aka Johnnie Monster, but I will do my utmost to ensure that we continue to grow …
This last weekend I had the great honour and privilege of representing the Vancouver Southsiders at the MLS Supporters Summit in Los Angles. I attended many meetings between supporters and with MLS Officials. Independent Supporters Council of the United States and Canada was a meeting held at a Mexican restaurant close to the Home Depot Centre. This …
I’m a Vancouver Southsider but I enjoy the taste of prawn sandwiches too much to give them up. So it was that on Sunday, when the Whitecaps started life in BC Place against the Portland Timbers, I was sitting up in the press box, stuffing popcorn into my face like it was oxygen and watching the game from above.It …
I’m sure everyone realizes what an amazing and awesome event last Sunday afternoon was. To think that this time last year the Southsiders were a bunch of a 100 or so people standing in the rain behind the net at Swangard out in the ‘burbs. Now we stretch back for over thirty rows in a …
Let me start by giving you all a big round of applause! I didn’t know what kind of feed back would be posted on the forum but I am more than pleased by the comments I have read. As head capo, I take my duties very seriously and am always woried about peforming them to …
First of all, thank you all for enduring what has been in many ways the worst season I’ve experienced in decades of supporting this club. The play has been entertaining at times, but the results have been simply awful. We’ve been annihilated on the field. We’ve been stomped out of playoff contention. We’ve completely flamed …
Normally when one thinks of “traveling supporters” in football, they imagine a group of die hard European fans, who wake up in the wee hours of the morning to embark on a six hour journey to cheer their club in the opposing team’s city. Not very often does this occur in North America due mostly …
It was a few days ago GoF reminded me that we (The Southsiders) had a blog we hadn’t used for a while. So here it is, the return of We’re Blue, We’re White Anyone is welcome to contact me, if they’d like to Blog I will resurrect this with Slamo’s excellent forum post written the …
