As the Major League Soccer season rubs the sleep from its eyes and blinks tentatively into the bright new dawn of 2019 the Product and Design team at Soccer Shorts have had no such rest and are now set to unveil a whole swathe of exciting innovations for the 2019 campaign.
“Such as what?” I hear you ask. Well, I will tell you.
Exclusive insider rumours and gossip!!!- Tired of getting all your Whitecaps information from a series of random dudes on Twitter? Fret no more! The Soccer Shorts Espionage and Infiltration team has spent the offseason embedding themselves in every level of the Whitecaps organization.
Want to know what Greg Anderson has for breakfast? Want to know what Marc Dos Santos really thinks of Doneil Henry? Those and many more details will be revealed throughout the season.
Stats! Stats! Stats!- The modern game is all about the numbers and the Soccer Shorts Numbers and Algorithmic department has been honing a revolutionary new way of analysing the game.
Impressed that some sites give you the numbers in real time? Stop being impressed immediately!
The Soccer Shorts Real Time Plus Five (SSRTPF) system will now give you the stats five minutes before they happen.
There`s now no need to concentrate on the game at all! Just follow along on our website and we will let you know when to glance up at the action. More phone time for you!
New and improved ratings system!- The Soccer Shorts player ratings are already recognized as the gold standard throughout the industry but the Soccer Shorts Athletic Evaluation team have improved on perfection!
This season there will be no need to question the ratings at all because they will be scientifically correct. Criticize the Soccer Shorts player ratings and you are outing yourself as an idiot!
New Premium Service!- Don’t worry. If you`re too poor to afford the Premium Service you will still see much of the great content you already get on this site.
But for those of you who are willing to do some actual work you will gain access to possibly the most exciting sports coverage in the world!
Simply send your credit card details to our secure (ish) site and we will then reveal just what these exciting innovations are.
What have you got to lose?
You pick the team! That`s right! The Whitecaps have sensationally agreed to allow Soccer Shorts and its readers to select one player per game by means of a Twitter vote!
Starting with the goalkeeper we will work our way through every position on the field. Want to throw Marc Dos Santos a curveball by playing Yordy Reyna in central defence? Now you can!
More details will be released nearer the time but Dos Santos has already described this innovation as “interesting”.
These are just a few examples of how Soccer Shorts will be the only site you need for your Vancouver Whitecaps coverage in 2019.
Delete the links to any other sites immediately! Now! Do it now!
Thank you.
Stay tuned!
Soccer Shorts (The Director's Cut) 
Drolly, Trolly and perhaps fueled by a few shots of Stoli, this was one hell of an entertaining, independent scribble. It may not have been the spark to the” Tired of getting all your Whitecaps information from a series of random dudes on Twitter”, but I have to believe it’s a partial response to Glass ” I want to be adored” City’s recent GFYS edict….while at the same time acknowledging that he has grabbed the attention of the die-hard Caps fan.
I believe Soccer Shorts started as a paid gig with Vancouver Sun, but it seems nowadays unless a freelancer can get a gig with a league, team, the Athletic, you/folks have to scribble for free, as websites inform you that you’ll get creditable exposure but no dollars for their writing. It’s more a commentary on the state of soccer writing than on those keeping their websites active, trying to move forward.
I could handle a few articles dealing with the current climate of Canadian soccer media, even if it takes you away from a few match reports.
Good luck for the upcoming season.
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