Day -564. WorldCup2018
It's late and I was about to go into another mini-rant about the lack of Toronto FC coverage in Toronto, but I'll spare you. There was a pretty big story about Wednesday's second leg against Montreal in today's Star newspaper. It didn't talk much, or at all, about the football. It focused on getting the pitch ready after today's Grey Cup, the Canadian Football League final, or the Canadian Superbowl, kind of. (Apparently the NFL got the idea for the Superbowl from the Grey Cup, but made it a lot bigger). The grounds keepers will have to get all those funny yard lines off the pitch. I really think that to honour their fellow Montreal Olympic Stadium grounds crew (the ones who had to do some last minute line painting last week) the Toronto crew should leave some of those gridiron lines on the pitch and paint over them as part of the opening ceremony on Wednesday.
I got distracted, said I wasn't going to be negative. There may not be much coverage but that hasn't stopped me looking forward to Wednesday, like I haven't looked forward to a football match for a long time. Maybe not hard to figure out why. Malta keep losing and can't score. And my other team, Aston Villa, may be on a bit of a good run but they are celebrating wins against the likes of Cardiff, Rotherham and Reading.
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