How LAFC Came to Lose Their Cloak of Invincibility in 2026 - Howler Magazine

Few clubs in MLS hold themselves in as high regard as LAFC. The Southern California outfit consider themselves to be atop the league's food chain with the likes of Inter Miami, but their cloak of rela...

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The MLS Monday Recap: Playoff Picture Gets Clearer, Twists in Cascadia, and More! - Howler Magazine

The penultimate weekend of MLS is now in our rearview mirrors but only after plenty of drama around the league, it left the remaining road ahead in 2026 with plenty of potential twists and turns. Let'...

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Plywood, Hatred and The Tale of Two Cities: The Race for the MLS Wooden Spoon - Howler Magazine

The Wooden Spoon. Not just any wooden spoon: the Wooden Spoon. Notice the capitalisation. It’s a proper noun, because it’s an award, a trophy and, depending on who you ask, a badge of honour. I’m Aust...

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Three Key Storylines to Watch This Weekend In MLS - Howler Magazine

Matchday 34 is a busy one across MLS. Six teams could clinch a playoff spot, and the three biggest games are each about something different: a team trying to stop a slide, a champion going after histo...

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MLS Midweek Recap: Scoring Record Broken, Playoff Twists, and More! - Howler Magazine

With two matchdays remaining in the 2026 regular season, Wednesday night’s slate produced a new league scoring record, a commanding win for the Western Conference leaders, and an unwelcome milestone f...

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An Undisclosed Amount: The Wild West of MLS Discipline - Howler Magazine

By the end of the World Cup, I knew more about the FIFA Disciplinary Code than any reasonable person should. Some would blame Folarin Balogun, others Donald Trump. Personally, I think the blame lies a...

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MLS Monday Recap: Derby Fireworks, New Shield Winners, and More! - Howler Magazine

With the regular season down to its final few games, Matchday 32 saw the Supporters' Shield find a new home, delivered a major result in New Jersey, added another chapter to Antoine Griezmann's remark...

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Three Key Storylines to Watch this Weekend in MLS - Howler Magazine

We are well and truly in the business end of the the 2026 MLS season now, but there is still plenty to play for in the final four matchdays. Playoff hopes, bragging rights, and end-of-season awards re...

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St. Louis City’s Triumph Gives the U.S. Open Cup the Moment It Needed - Howler Magazine

It was a moment St. Louis City fans will not soon forget. The sight of Daniel Edelman waving his shirt above his head at a full sprint heading towards the few-thousand City fans in the away end of Sco...

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Why Every New MLS Stadium Looks the Same (and Why It Makes Sense) - Howler Magazine

Put the newly shared images of NYCFC's Etihad Park next to renderings of the Chicago Fire's soon-to-be home McDonald's Park and you could be forgiven for thinking someone printed the same drawing twic...

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Bums Out of Seats: Saint-Maximin and Charlotte’s Squeaky Run-In - Howler Magazine

Dean Smith has a mission statement for Charlotte FC. “From the moment I came here,” he told MLS.com, “our job is to get bums out of seats.” Out of seats. Not on them. Every manager alive wants the sta...

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The MLS Monday Recap: Columbus Take Bragging Rights, Messi Makes History, and More! - Howler Magazine

With only a handful of games left in the regular season, the standings are starting to fall into place before the postseason kicks in just a matter of weeks from now. Matchday 31 delivered a bit of ev...

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The Curious Case of MLS’s Big Spenders — Why Money Can’t Always Buy You Success - Howler Magazine

Look at any European table and the biggest wage bills are usually sitting near the top. In MLS, however, the link between money and results is much looser, and some of the league's most expensively as...

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Why the Scenes in Toronto Remind Us that MLS is More than Star Names and Winning Runs - Howler Magazine

For 93 minutes on Saturday, Toronto FC were losing at home to their hated rivals, then in two minutes of utter chaos, everything flipped inside of BMO Field. CF Montréal held the lead since the 52nd m...

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Three Key Storylines to Watch this Weekend in MLS - Howler Magazine

After a lengthy international break, despite some intermittent MLS action, the league returns in full for the home stretch this weekend. With fewer than 10 matchdays remaining in the regular season, p...

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Bitter Jesse Marsch, Thumping Tackles, and the Changing USMNT-Canada Relationship - Howler Magazine

The USMNT beat Canada 1-0 at Allianz Field in St. Paul on Tuesday to finish a perfect four-win window under Mauricio Pochettino, but the conversation both before and after the match was about the appa...

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The Passing of the Torch: Tim Ream and the USMNT - Howler Magazine

Tim Ream would like to clarify something. He is retiring from the United States men's national team. He is not, as far as he is concerned, retiring from football. Even the word “retirement” seems to m...

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Why This Wave of Burgeoning USMNT Starlets Feels Different - Howler Magazine

American soccer fans know the tale that’s as old as time. A teenager shows something special, the hype machine kicks in after social media clips go viral, and somebody calls him generational before he...

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LAFC Were Right to Part Ways With Marc Dos Santos — What Comes Next? - Howler Magazine

When LAFC named Marc Dos Santos head coach this winter, the reaction was lukewarm at best. On Sunday night, the club fired him, the first time in their short history that it has made a coaching change...

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USMNT Dispatch Peru, But It Was More Than Just a Friendly - Howler Magazine

The United States dispatched Peru in an international friendly Saturday afternoon in Orlando, but it felt like much more of a momentous occasion than your average exhibition match in the middle of Sep...

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