Rough Weekend

February 1, 2010 5:05 pm mnt, nigel reed

A painful journey for Canadian soccer
Sometimes this column writes itself; sometimes it does not. At times the subject matter is so obvious I cannot type quickly enough to keep pace with my thoughts. On other occasions I pace around the home office searching for inspiration, distracted and unable to focus on a particular theme.

Among the topics I considered this week were John Terry’s sordid secrets and why he should resign as England captain; Wayne Rooney’s 100th EPL goal and why he’s currently the world’s best striker and the return to pre-season training of Toronto FC and why Year Four will finally yield playoff soccer.

I may, or may not, return to one or all of these subjects in due course. In the end they all ended up on the cutting room floor (at least for now) when I remembered it was an important weekend for Canadian soccer. Both the men and women saw action in and around the Caribbean and both teams had something to prove.

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