THE MATCHUP: Excuse me... Pouvons-nous s'il vous plaît garder le Championnat Canadien de Amway?

So pretty! Can we keep it? Pleeeeease!

MONTREAL VS. TORONTO
AMWAY CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIP

SEMI-FINAL 1ST LEG

OLYMPIC STADIUM - WEDNESDAY 8PM ET

TV: SPORTSNET ONTARIO

THE KICKABOUT:

It's back! Sort of. What we used to lovingly call "The NutCan" has been re-branded as the Amway Canadian Championship. Since there's no way we are calling this country's major football championship "The AmCan" we will stick to Voyageurs Cup - or in a lazy pinch "The Cank".

Many are saying that "The Cank" semi-final draw with arch-rival Montreal couldn't be coming at a better time for the win-starved TFC. Their feeling being that a progression past The Cheesemakers and into the final can kick-start The Reds horrific 2012 start. However, there are whispers in other circles that a loss over two legs, and the lost revenue that would come with that, could be too much for MLSE and may mark the end of Aron Winter's tenure in Toronto. That is some high-pressure Cank.

MANUFACTURED DERBY NAME: "The 401 Derby: Cank Edition"

PLAYERS TO WATCH:

TORONTO: Eric Avila, Torsten Frings, Reggie Lambe

MONTREAL: Davy Arnaud, Bernardo Corradi, Matteo Ferrari

THE ODDS:

- TFC getting a "moral victory": 2-1

- TFC getting an "actual victory": 5-1

- This being the 1st Leg of Aron Winter's 2-Leg job hunt: 10-1

WHO ARE YA?

Many Canadian football supporters cringed when this competition was re-branded as The Amway (or American Way) Canadian Championship. However, in the latest FIFA "Strangest Multinational Branded Football Tournaments" list, it placed far behind these Top 5 most bizarre cross-border combos:

- "The American Airlines Iraq v North Korea Friendship Match"

- "Marlboro Presents: The French Under-12 Finals"

- "The Taco Bell "Run for the Border" Cuban Championship"

- "The Carlsberg Breweries Qatari Invitational"

- "Visit Israel - The Israeli Tourist Board Iranian Premier League"

POST-MATCH HEADLINE: "WINTER WITH ONE LEG TO STAND ON"