Holding The High Line: David Gantar
Hey Colorado Rapids Fans. On this episode of Holding The High Line, Rabbi and Red get together the day after the 9-man Rapids lost to Sporting KC in MiB. We go in depth on the decisions of referee David Gantar on Nicolas Benezet’s elbow, the two red cards, the PK, and the Alan Pulido yellow card.
Holding The High Line: David Gantar
During the intro banter, we discuss Andre Schurrle retiring and the wonderful story arc of Adebayo Akinfenwa. For more info on Schurrle, click here and here. For more info on Akinfenwa, check out his twitter, this story, and this story. There’s also this interview, this one, and this video.
Also during the podcast, we reference incidents where players were given red cards for confronting officials. Find the Brek Shea video here and the Philadelphia Union video here.
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About The Hosts
Matt Pollard (Red) and Mark Goodman (Rabbi) are Southern California natives and started HTHL in January of 2018. Red is the Site Manager over at Last Word on Soccer. He has covered the Colorado Rapids as credentialed press since 2016. In his non-soccer free time, he enjoys the outdoors. He is also a host on Last Word SC Radio which is also a member of the Beautiful Game Network. Rabbi relocated to the Pittsburgh area in 2019. He now covers the Pittsburgh Riverhounds for Pittsburgh Soccer Now and soccer in general for American Soccer Analysis.
