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I felt like i was reading a feature in the old fish wrap! I cant wait to see how this team comes together. The oregonian has left a big hole in covering the timbers im glad you decided to cover the team!

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Great piece, Tyson, wow!

One lengthy comment here - I've always been less prone to focus on the decade-old tweets (as you delicately illustrate, there hasn't been as much as a peep out of his former players on the England women's national team as to any misconduct or even dislike) and instead focus on, well... That he might not actually be a very good manager. Pretty much the second he left England, the ladies won a major trophy - and you could make a compelling argument that they should have won the 2019 World Cup under different management, the team was that talented. Inter Miami was bottom of the conference for long stretches with him at the helm. His credentials as presented to the Timbers appear to have been: famous former player, English, knows Becks, has coached in the MLS and elsewhere. And apparently that was enough. I'll just never understand why a club already awash in scandal decided to go with Neville and his (albeit much milder by comparison) baggage. The juice, as they say, never seemed worth the squeeze.

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