AFTER 90: The blame game

Not having a ball



THE BUZZ:
Would a TFC loss be blamed on travel, fatigue or humidity?

Do any of you still listen to the post-match excuses?

Will Kansas get a rare football "three-game sweep"?

Have the results of Livestrong Park's urinalysis returned?

What's more American - Teal Bunbury or Jacob Peterson's socks?

Does Bunbury's ACL injury stand for American-Canadian Ligaments?

Can I get an AmericaJuice (TM)? Make it "X-Treme F*ckbery" please

FIRST HALF:

44' - GOAL: Toronto - Ryan Johnson

SPORTING KC 0 - TORONTO 1

FIRST HALF HIGHLIGHT: Taking two shots on net - scoring

FIRST HALF LOWLIGHT: Hints that Torsten Frings could be done for the season

HALFTIME: SPORTING KC 0 - TORONTO 1

SECOND HALF:

59' - YELLOW CARD: Terry Dunfield

60' - GOAL: Sporting KC - Paulo Nagamura

SPORTING KC 1 - TORONTO 1

87' - GOAL: Sporting KC - Oriol Rosell

SPORTING KC 2 - TORONTO 1

SECOND HALF HIGHLIGHT: Briefly embracing 1 point

SECOND HALF LOWLIGHT: The re-run late goal and being told it was down to fatigue... despite zero substitutions being made

FULL TIME: SPORTING KC 2 - TORONTO 1

PLAYER RATINGS: Freddy Hall 5.5 / Logan Emory 5.5 / Richard Eckersley 6 / Darren O'Dea 6.5 / Jeremy Hall 6 / Andrew Wiedeman 5.5 / Terry Dunfield 6 / Aaron Maund 6 / Ryan Johnson 6.5 / Luis Silva 6.5 / Quincy Amarikwa 5

THE YORKIES' TFC MAN OF THE MATCH: Luis Silva

THE MOOD:

If you want analysis of yet another TFC late-match collapse, you can read pretty much any of the past two months' AFTER 90's. So, in the spirit of excusing six years of this... here's a tribute to Milli Vanilli telling Tom Anselmi & Co. why there's always something off the field that caused this "injustice". You've heard it - travel, fatigue, injury, turf, locker room cancers, personnel change. I could go on but Vanillia is waiting...

"Blame it on the plane (no charters)

Blame it on the stars (they got injured)

Whatever you do, don't put the blame on you

Blame it on the plane, yeah yeah

　

Blame it on fatigue (so sleepy)

Blame it on Winter - he did no right

Whatever you do, don't put the blame on you

Blame it on the plane, yeah yeah"