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Thorns FC: What Pain Can Teach

“I love Medusa laughing in her bath

Tinted with blood, my blood. I love the keen

Blade of her furor in its silken sheath:”

As any gamer can tell you, sometimes fighting and losing to the monsters, the big bosses, can teach you lessons. At least, that’s what I want to take away from the ugly beating the North Carolina Courage handed our Thorns last Wednesday night.

Lesson One: Portland, in its current form, cannot beat North Carolina playing straight-up soccer.

That’s a hard lesson.