Plenty of Nothing

Persephone

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Ottawa Train Station, 1967

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Two New Brunswick Dollars

The New Brunswick dollar was a thing from 1860 to 1867. Source.

Mississauga: Land on the Move (1969)

Try to watch this 1969 short film promoting the Town of Mississauga and then not move there.

Octagonal Cockpit

This octagonal belvedere on the grounds of Dundurn Castle in Hamilton, Ontario was originally used for cockfighting. Source.

Yosuke Ideguchi

Of the four Japanese players brought in by Celtic in 2021-22 Yosuke Ideguchi has had the least impact, suffering a knee injury and making only six appearances. Bad luck for the 2016 J League rookie of the year. Source.

Canadian Championship semi-finals (June 22):

Vancouver Whitecaps 2 - 1 York United

Toronto FC 4 - 0 CF Montréal

The date of the final hasn't been announced, but I reckon it'll be July 20 or 27.

Sort the CPL clubs by number of Canadian Championship matches played:

22    FC Edmonton

12    Cavalry

11    York United

10    HFX Wanderers

  7    Forge FC

  6    Pacific FC

  5    Valour FC

  2    Atlético Ottawa

Other Canadian matches:

Pacific [0 - 3] HFX Wanderers

[Goals by Samb, Daniels and Salter.]

Somebody is thinking about putting a CPL team in Kelowna. Source.

League1 Ontario: North Mississauga [3 - 1] Sigma SC (yesterday)

Sigma was founded as a soccer academy by the Smyrniotis brothers in 2005. In 2019 coach Bobby Smyrniotis and 16 players moved over to Forge FC to become the CPL's first champion team. Sigma play at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga. North Mississauga and Sigma are the League1's only teams based in Mississauga, and their derby is called the Credit River Cup.

Duran Lee (HFX Wanderers 2019) played for Sigma from 2016 to 2018.

PLSQ: CS St-Hubert [3 - 2] Royal-Sélect de Beauport (tomorrow)

L1BC: Victoria Highlanders [2 - 3] TSS Rovers (tomorrow)

This is leg one of the Juan de Fuca Plate (the trophy, not the piece of ocean floor currently subducting beneath western North America.) (See below.) [The path to the Juan de Fuca Plate has changed. See August 6 2022 post.]

CSL: Toronto Falcons [1 - 1] Serbian White Eagles (tomorrow)

Scotland:

Annan Athletic [2 - 2] Morton (closed door friendly) (in Gretna)

[Morton goals by Jacobs and Garrity.]

Morton have re-signed Jai Quitongo. He previously played for Morton from 2015 to 2018, and since then he has been with Partick Thistle, Machine Sazi (Iran), Dumbarton and Queen's Park. Apparently Dougie Imrie tried to get him in January. What would it take for 2022-23 to be Jai Quitongo's best year? Seven goals.

Also signed is midfielder Grant Gillespie, formerly of Hamilton, Dundee United, Raith Rovers, Derry City, Ayr United and Queen's Park.

Alan Lithgow is out with a knee injury.

Hamilton Academical have parted ways with manager Stuart Taylor.

Threave Rovers have quit the South of Scotland League and applied to join the West of Scotland League. They were in the Lowland League from 2013 to 2016.

Former Morton players who were brought back:

2022        Jai Quitongo

2022        Jack Baird

2021        Mark Russell

2020        Gary Oliver

2019        Aidan Nesbitt

2018        Chris Millar

2018        Jim McAlister

2018        Denny Johnstone

2017        Luca Gasparotto

2016        Declan McManus

2015        Michael Tidser

Japan:

Mito HollyHock [1 - 1] Fagiano Okayama

Tohoku: Bogolle.D.Tsugaru [2 - 1] Ganju Iwate (tomorrow)

Elsewhere:

UCD 0 - 1 Derry City (yesterday)

FC Pfäffikon [0 - 7] Winterthur (testspiel) (tomorrow)

Wintherthur and Pfäffikon are neighbouring districts in the canton of Zurich. FC Pfäffikon play in 3.Liga

The 2022-23 UEFA Champions League began this week with the preliminary round:

semi-finals (June 21):

FCI Levadia (Estonia) 1 - 6 Vikingur Reykjavik (Iceland)

La Fiorita (San Marino) 1 - 2 Inter Club d'Escaldes (Andorra)

final (June 24):

Inter Club d'Escaldes 0 - 1 Vikingur Reykjavik

Soccer's Juan de Fuca Plate. Source.

Geology's Juan de Fuca Plate. Source.

BC Redesign

Lou-ann Ika-wega Neel's British Columbia flag. Source.

Wordle 365

 

102nd Emperor's Cup, Round Three

Sakka Gemu. Source.

It's the Emperor's Cup, Round Three. There are sixteen matches featuring all twenty J1 teams and twelve from J2. There were no upsets in Round Two.

Match No. 57: Kawasaki Frontale (J1) [0 - 1] Tokyo Verdy (J2)    Upset

Match No. 58: Shonan Bellmare (J1) [0 - 1] Júbilo Iwata (J1)

Match No. 59: Avispa Fukuoka (J1) [3 - 1] Iwate Grulla Morioka (J2)

Match No. 60: FC Tokyo (J1) [2 - 3] V-Varen Nagasaki (J2)    Upset

Match No. 61: Kashima Antlers (J1) [3 - 0] Omiya Ardija (J2)

Match No. 62: Gamba Osaka (J1) [3 - 1] Oita Trinita (J2)

Match No. 63: Nagoya Grampus (J1) [1 - 0] Zweigen Kanazawa (J2)

Match No. 64: Cerezo Osaka (J1) [3 - 2] Vegalta Sendai (J2)

Match No. 65: Yokohama F. Marinos (J1) [0 - 2] Tochigi SC (J2)    Upset

Match No. 66: Shimizu S-Pulse (J1) [0 - 1] Kyoto Sanga (J1)

Match No. 67: Sagan Tosu (J1) [3 - 2] Roasso Kumamoto (J2)

Match No. 68: Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo (J1) [1 - 2] Ventforet Kofu (J2)    Upset

Match No. 69: Vissel Kobe (J1) [2 - 1] Renofa Yamaguchi (J2)

Match No. 70: Kashiwa Reysol (J1) [2 - 1] Tokushima Vortis (J2)

Match No. 71: Urawa Red Diamonds (J1) [0 - 1] Thespakusatsu Gunma (J2)    Upset

Match No. 72: Sanfrecce Hiroshima (J1) [3 - 0] Yokohama FC (J2)

Albert Einstein in Glasgow

Albert Einstein received an honourary degree from the University of Glasgow on this date in 1933. Source.