Knight: Seeking Soccer In The Snow

Globe&Mail On Soccer
By Ben Knight

Montreal!

After a hard, rewarding week’s work in Ottawa, I treated myself yesterday to a day off in Montreal.

Whilst there, I decided to amuse myself by seeking any trace of the global game of soccer in one of the world’s greatest hockey cities under a firm, white coat of early snow. The search did not go well.

I don’t want to claim that it’s easier to spot a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey in Schwartz’s delicatessen than to find any soccer shirt or logo in Montreal anywhere. But for this reporter, yesterday, that’s exactly how it turned out.

The Leaf fan was at the second table back from the cash register, downing what looked like a small smoked meat platter along about 11 in the morning. He was being comfortably tolerated, if not accepted, by the famously gruff wait staff of my favourite eating establishment on the planet. The Leafs were in town, after all, and subsequently lost.

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