Nutrilite Canadian Championship: Vancouver Whitecaps Foiled By Bureaucrats - 86 Forever
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Vancouver Whitecaps fans feel as though a massive injustice was done on Wednesday when their team was leading the Nutrilite Canadian Championship 2-1 on aggregate. Their team had scored an away goal and appeared poised to grab a CONCACAF Champions League spot.
But 86 Forever, SB Nation's Vancouver Whitecaps blog, sees something a little more sinister. He sees a bit of a tilted field that is in favor of Toronto FC and blames the CSA for failing to even that out:
There are only two things the Canadian Soccer Association could do wrong. One would be to imperil the lives of fans or players, which luckily didn’t happen. The other would be to declare that an hour-old game which Vancouver was leading didn’t count. That the entire premise of soccer, “the team which scores more goals is the winner”, doesn’t apply. While Toronto FC’s field staff sat around with their thumbs up their butts rather than roll tarps over the field or bust or bust our the squeegees, and while Toronto FC’s head coach turned to the cameras just before the match was 70% completed and declared that it was unplayable, the CSA directly intervened to, very possibly, change the outcome of the national championship which they pretend to hold in such high regard.
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