THE SOUR MASH SOCCER BASH APPROACHETH. And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? Well, that’s no way to talk about our neighbors to the south! At least, not yet.

While there are some slightly icky skeletons in Nashville SC’s closet (starting with bilking the original club owners out of their shares of the team for basically nothing), they won’t be around long enough for us to develop any real animosity in this short-lived series. Cincinnati, on the other hand, is STILL waiting for Donnie Garbo to ask them to the prom. It’s entertaining af to watch them stare at their collective phones, waiting for El Garbissimo to call them.

But this is about Nashville. I’ll obviously have the full MARCH TO THE MATCH up on Friday, but something to chew on while you wait is this:

On to the links:

• USL is scouting Fort Myers, Florida as a site for another club. Chances are good this is for USLD3, but Lee County is freakin’ huge and pretty diverse, so a D2 club might be a possibility.
• Didier Drogba, club legend at Phoenix Rising and ONLY at Phoenix Rising, has announced his retirement at the end of the coming season. Literally no one saw this coming from the spry 40 year old striker.
• The Greek government suspended the entire Greek Super League because one of PAOK’s owners jumped on the field with a gun to confront a referee following the team’s loss to AEK Athens.