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Author: Dan Walsh
Readers poll: Should Jim Curtin return as Union manager?
In the first of our series of offseason reader polls, we ask PSP readers whether Jim Curtin should return as Union manager.
Ken Tribbett’s errors obscure larger facts in Union playoff loss
Ken Tribbett will have nightmares for years about Sebastian Giovinco and Jozy Altidore, but there was more to the Union’s playoff loss than that, PSP’s Dan Walsh writes. Also, a note on the retiring Conor Casey.
Playoff preview: Toronto FC v Philadelphia Union
The Union head to Toronto with their season on the line in a one-game knockout playoff game. Can they stop Sebastian Giovinco and pull off the upset?
Union playoff appearance more formality than achievement
When Roland Alberg was caught on camera apparently telling Tranquillo Barnetta to “f*ck off” during Sunday’s loss to NYRB, it seemed to sum up the Union’s late season collapse into the playoffs, PSP’s Dan Walsh writes. But that wasn’t the only thing.
The Union’s collapse is not a regression to the mean
The Union should be a good team right now. Instead, they’re collapsing toward the playoffs so poorly that they don’t deserve the off-season, and the coaching staff deserves some of the blame, writes PSP’s Dan Walsh.