One preseason game down three and a half more to go. I got to see most of the game against Young Harris and was generally pretty happy with what I saw in the second half. I’m not a fan of the 4-1-4-1 that we kind of started in. Yeah, the personnel kind of fit it, but it’s not a system that really suits City’s style of play. Chalk it up to an experiment and some data collected to help with decisionmaking. I hope, anyway.

Y’all, it rained a lot this weekend. I’m 100% certain the club’s training ground won’t be dry land again for several weeks. I even heard that some of the storage containers on site floated away. Hopefully they missed that cow. Here’s hoping everyone is surviving the flood okay.

Let’s hit the links, shall we?

• The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the denial of NASL’s preliminary injunction to force USSF to sanction them last Friday. It remains to be seen whether NASL appeals to the Supreme Court, settles, or moves on to its new state court action in New York.
• In actual soccering, Freddy Adu picked up an assist for Las Vegas Lights on Saturday night in their 2-4 preseason loss to DC United.
• Much as we all march on toward our inescapable physical demise, Manchester City marched to their first of what will be many trophies this season, beating Arsenal 3-0 to win the Carabao Cup.