Nuke Soccer

By Ben Knight Onward Soccer

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The answer, of course, is “It can’t.”

The question? “How can a good team lose and all-or-nothing soccer game 5-0 to the worst team in the league?”

To me, that’s all the proof needed that Toronto FC, despite all the signings, all the promising rookies and all the hype and hoopla, simply is not a good team.

But by “team,” I don’t just mean the players on the field.

But let’s start there. The two things all these lads have in common is they were taken to soccer school by New York Product Placement on a night where a win – combined with everything else that happened – would have seen them safely into seventh place overall, and a first-round home-and-home playoff pairing with the Chicago Fire.

The other commonality is they were all signed by TFC GM Mo Johnston.

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