The Soccer Scribes: Update 042113
This is TFC, and we should know by now that any lead is never safe.
This is TFC, and we should know by now that any lead is never safe.
Panama has not always been kind to Canadian soccer teams. There have been a number of changes in the Whitecaps regular starting eleven. Should Russell Teibert have been involved sooner for the Vancouver Whitecaps?
It’s a bit of a gamble for TFC to keep Hassli as a DP considering his history of injury problems in the league. Cochrane, though, is confident the Frenchman will arrive for pre-season training in January fully healthy.
What’s especially sobering is that Mariner doesn’t appear to have a proper appreciation of just how dire the situation is, suggesting success is just around the corner.
Make no mistake about it: Paul Mariner and Earl Cochrane are now on the clock.
Toronto FC escaped with a 0-0 draw against the Montreal Impact in its last home game of the regular season.
If MLSE really wants to regain so much of the good will it’s spurned, if it wants to get fans back onside, if it wants a return of the crazy atmosphere at BMO Field, cutting ticket prices won’t achieve any of that. Putting a competitive team on the field will.
TFC hardly able to disguise how the poor effort and performance against Chicago was merely a microcosm of this entire ill-fated season for Toronto..
When the Reds travel away from home, especially to Central America, they become aggravatingly passive, and play as though they have no right to contend or even be on the same pitch as their opponent. They don’t dare to win.
Canada tops Group C with seven points from three games. Panama is second (six points), followed by Honduras (four) and pointless Cuba.