Look at that. 99. Double digits. This calls for a celebratory beer. A Hop House 13 Lager, by Guinness to be exact. (Not my sponsor, but if Guinness are interested.....I can say it's very, very good).
It's a Champions League day today. I missed the fun of Spurs-Juventus, and the wonderful Juve comeback. I was sitting on a bus following on twitter, BBC and keeping up two chats, one with my brother at Wembley. Jealous, was I? Course not.
I could have chosen to go to a Champions League match of my own. Toronto FC are playing Tigres of Mexico, right now. But I didn't. I'm here, writing this with updates open in another window. Tigres have a couple of notable players: the Chilean Eduardo Vargas, Enner Valencia, formely of West Ham and André-Pierre Gignac, the guy who almost won Euro 2016 for France but carried on the strong French tradition of French centre-forwards who can's score for France.
TFC, of course have Giovinco, Bradley and Altidore. If you're a fan of Sunderland you may be laughing at any suggestion of Altidore being a great player. But this is the MLS and h'e good over here. And tonight TFC are hoping for great things from their new import, former Dutch international Gregory Van de Wiel. Reports so far are that he's looking good. TFC are looking at this as a new challenge, a real step up from winning the MLS last year.
It was 0-0 at half-time but, bad news, Vargas just scored for Tigres. Counter attack, bad defending.
Ah well, there's always next year. I never fancied TFC's chances in Mexico. With an away goal for Tigres it'll be even harder now.
Update: 1-1 Altidore. Hope.
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