Message to all current Reds: don’t get injured in the final of the Canadian Championship. It could signal the end of your time in a Toronto FC uniform.
For the second year in a row, a player who sacrificed his body for the sake of the Voyageurs Cup is no longer a member of TFC.
As I’m sure we all recall, Johnson scored the Cup-clinching goal in the final minutes against the Vancouver Whitecaps. In so doing, he shattered his left leg and was gone for two months. While he was recuperating, Toronto brought in Armando Cooper to plug the hole.