Last week, I spoke, at medium-length, about Sexy Results, both in terms of TFC’s play and fixtures around the league.
Since then, Toronto FC jumped to 4th place in the Eastern Conference standings, and talks swirled of a home playoff fixture. I emptied the swear jar, rolled up my coins, and prepared myself for “The ML$E Playoff Ticket Sticker-Shock (2019 Edition)“.
This week, however, we saw that wonderful momentum smash into the brick wall of reality and splinter into a million sad little pieces.
We witnessed the Reds drop the first leg of the Canadian Championship 1-0 to Montreal at Stade Saputo, and continue a very worrying trend (more on that later) of reverse alchemy — Turning three points into one.