Today's News,Sunday, Oct.19

[denime]

Toronto FC's hopes dashed
LARRY MILLSON

TORONTO — The Fat Lady may have been reaching for the throat lozenges Saturday afternoon, but she had to choke back that aria for a while after Toronto FC's 3-2 victory over the Chicago Fire.

Toronto's first home victory since June 14 in its final regular-season game of the year at BMO Field kept the club's faint Major League Soccer playoff hopes flickering for a while longer.

Read more (http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081018.wspt-soc-tfc-win-18/GSStory/GlobeSportsSoccer/home)



Ricketts on the rebound
Midfielder keys victory with pair of goals, credits coach Carver for revitalizing career
Toronto FC 3 Chicago Fire 2
Morgan Campbell

As first-half injury time ticked down, Toronto FC midfielder Rohan Ricketts collected a pass 22 yards from the Chicago Fire goal, pivoted and blasted it past Chicago keeper Jon Busch.

Read more (http://www.thestar.com/Sports/Soccer/article/520040)



Toronto FC wins, but eliminated from playoffs
John F. Molinaro

Toronto FC simply ran out of games.
English midfielder Rohan Ricketts scored twice Saturday afternoon to lift Toronto to a 3-2 win over the Chicago Fire in its final home game of the Major League Soccer campaign.
The Canadian club was officially eliminated from playoff contention Saturday night when both the Kansas City Wizards and the New York Red Bulls won their respective contests. The Wizards defeated the San Jose Earthquakes 3-2 at home, while the Red Bulls earned a 3-1 win over the visiting Columbus Crew.

Read more (http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/story/2008/10/18/torontofc-chicago.html)


Too little, too late for Toronto FC
THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO -- With Toronto FC's tenuous post-season hopes on the line, John Carver told his players simply to give themselves a chance.

They did exactly that, and then left the rest to fate.

Needing a victory to have any hopes of making the playoffs, Rohan Ricketts scored a pair of goals and Amado Guevara added one to lead Toronto to a 3-2 win over the Chicago Fire on Saturday in the team's final regular-season game at BMO Field.

Read more (http://www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/2008/10/18/tfc_fire_recap/)


Reds win but it's too little, too late
Ricketts scores a pair of goals but TFC out of playoffs anyway
By DEAN MCNULTY (dean.mcnulty@sunmedia.ca), SUN MEDIA

Toronto FC saved its best soccer of the season for its final home game yesterday afternoon in a 3-2 win over the Chicago Fire at BMO Field.
Unfortunately, any reward for the effort was gone by the time the clock struck midnight.
TFC was at the mercy of two key games being played last night -- New York Red Bulls at Columbus Crew and San Jose Earthquakes at Kansas City Wizards -- and when the Red Bulls beat the Crew 3-1 and the Wizards beat San Jose 3-2, it ended any chance of post season play for the Reds.

Read more (http://www.torontosun.com/sports/soccer/2008/10/19/7134866-sun.html)



TFC relieved to hold onto late lead
Reds left to watch scoreboard, hope for help to stay in playoff chase

TORONTO -- When Cuauhtemoc Blanco scored in the 59th minute on Saturday to cut Toronto FC's lead over Chicago to 3-2, there was an uncomfortable sense of deja vu settling over BMO Field. Four times this season the Reds have been victimized by late goals that turned possible wins into draws (such as last Saturday against FC Dallas) and possible draws into losses (as in TFC's previous game against Chicago, a 2-1 loss on July 12).

Read more (http://toronto.fc.mlsnet.com/news/team_news.jsp?ymd=20081018&content_id=196916&vkey=news_t280&fext=.jsp&team=t280)


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SUNSHINE (http://www.torontosun.com/sunshinegirl/)

[London]

who would have bet that of all teams, kC would be in the drivers seat for the final playoff spot

[denime]

Colorado still can make it if they win today,they will have 39 points and that way still alive for final spots.
KC,DC,Colorado and NYRB are in the game for 2 final playoff spots.

[Mrs. Workie]

Driving down to Columbus for the first game, those in our truck had a conversation about the season, and the general consensus was that if we could win 10 games this season, we would be happy. 9 wins and one game to go, I think it can be done.

[Super]

Driving down to Columbus for the first game, those in our truck had a conversation about the season, and the general consensus was that if we could win 10 games this season, we would be happy. 9 wins and one game to go, I think it can be done.

I honestly thought we had a shot at the play-offs in year two. Squad looked good, especially when Ricketts, Robert and Guevara joined us, but at this point I don't think any of us can honestly say that TFC deserves to be in the play-offs. We finished strong and it'll be helpful going into the post-season. Up and onwards, next year we'll be even stronger I'm sure.

[ben_vw]

Colorado still can make it if they win today,they will have 39 points and that way still alive for final spots.
KC,DC,Colorado and NYRB are in the game for 2 final playoff spots.


Colorado will have 37 points with a win today* :)

[Mrs. Workie]

I honestly thought we had a shot at the play-offs in year two. Squad looked good, especially when Ricketts, Robert and Guevara joined us, but at this point I don't think any of us can honestly say that TFC deserves to be in the play-offs. We finished strong and it'll be helpful going into the post-season. Up and onwards, next year we'll be even stronger I'm sure.


I thought the same thing. We had a good start to the season, then we hit a slump that lasted a lot longer than we had all hoped. They finished strong, but it's a little too late. I kept saying to myself yesterday, where the hell was this team two months ago?

[Technorgasm]

SO LONG . . . .


and Thanks for all the fish.


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[rocker]

Driving down to Columbus for the first game, those in our truck had a conversation about the season, and the general consensus was that if we could win 10 games this season, we would be happy. 9 wins and one game to go, I think it can be done.

that's basically what the board predicted in my preseason predictions thread.
after the san jose game I'll post the details.
so if anyone says TFC didn't meet expectations -- well, the common wisdom of the board said they exactly met the expectations people had for them. :)

[ensco]

that's basically what the board predicted in my preseason predictions thread.
after the san jose game I'll post the details.
so if anyone says TFC didn't meet expectations -- well, the common wisdom of the board said they exactly met the expectations people had for them. :)

That is really interesting. I look forward to seeing that thread.

[Redcoe15]

Was anyone aware that there's a video of yesterday's Sunshine Girl? :yum:

[Roogsy]

Thank you Redcoe! Thank you thank you thank you!!!

That has made my weekend just that little bit better... :D