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When A Draw Is Really A Win

When A Draw Is Really A Win

Wednesday, August 4, 2010 1 Comment

Whomever first uttered the old cliché “you win some, and you lose some” clearly wasn’t a soccer fan.

Toronto FC proved that last night when they advanced to the group stage of the CONCACAF Champions League by way of the biggest draw in team history. Up 1-0 on aggregate heading into the match, TFC knew that a draw with C.D. Motagua of Tegucigalpa would be enough to allow the Reds to move on. Even a loss would do the trick, provided that Toronto managed to score a goal along the way and keep within one of their Honduran hosts.

On To The Next One

On To The Next One

Wednesday, May 26, 2010 247 Comments

Vancouver Whitecaps fans (and organization): Be careful what you wish for.

Last year, it seemed that everyone connected to the Whitecaps was whining high and low about the Montreal Impact “bending over” for Toronto in last year’s final Nutrilite Canadian Championship match.

Montreal was, as you all well know, already eliminated from Voyageurs Cup contention heading into that match, and decided to rest some regulars ahead of a crucial league game against those same Vancouver Whitecaps only two days later.

In Preki we trust?

In Preki we trust?

Saturday, November 14, 2009 5,249 Comments

Ives Galarcep is reporting that former US international and Chivas USA coach Preki will become TFC’s next head coach.

Preki (a.k.a. Predrag Radosavljević) was widely rumoured to be on Mo Johnston’s three-man short list (along with Houston assistant John Spencer and long-time New England head coach Steve Nicol), and was probably the most realistic choice of the three.