It will be a strange affair at the Impact this evening. Not only for those 250 fans lucky enough to secure match tickets, but for the thousands of regular match-goers forced to watch a Montreal Impact home game on their TV sets at home.
Thanks to these strange Covid-times, there will be the sight of sparsely populated seats, sanitizing stations, face-coverings en masse and temperature controls to greet everyone entering the stadium.
There will also be the scanning of Yoop passes borne from the process thought up by the Impact front office to distribute tickets for the big game, and whisper it, presenting the opportunity to maximize revenue from the 2020 river that’s run so very dry.