Montreal Impact Academy warms up.
Result of the Friday September 14, 2012 CSL game between TFC Academy and Montreal Impact Academy played at Downsview Park in North York at 8:00pm. Result:.....Game not played because of failure of getting stadium lights working. Referee David Barrie calls this game as abandoned as no one could get the lights to go on. By the time the game was scheduled to start, it was already dark. Barrie added another 30 minutes then waited another 15 minutes then called the game. Montreal had come a long way to play this game and tomorrow night they have a game in Niagara Falls. There may be a possibility of rescheduling for Sunday when Montreal would be driving through Toronto on their way home to Montreal. The regular season is scheduled to end October 7th. I could see the lights slowly go on at a field two fields over while it was still daylight but there was nothing at 'Training Field 1' where this game was supposed to take place. Downsview Park staff supposedly got started into action at that moment calling for the electrician. By the time one got here and got the lights working just after 9:00pm, the game had been called and the TFCA players were heading home. MIA was still present waiting for their bus. I walked over at 8:30pm to that lighted field expecting their game would end at 9:00pm (I was right) but there was another game scheduled to start at 9:00pm which would run until 11:00pm. I wish I hadn't walked around the fields outside the fence because I found out the hard way everything beyond the fence was a mudpit. It had rained all afternoon. So much information/rumours! The lights were timed to go off at 11:00pm? No midnight. The reason for the lights not working? The heavy rainfall?--or was it the construction of erecting the winter bubble for the indoor season? I heard it all. Attendance was about 50 people soon standing around in the dark waiting for a resolution until the DJ finally told them to go home. Yes the DJ could plug in and the portable scoreboard was also plugged in and working. This was worse than the Panama vs Canada World Cup qualifier so now maybe I shouldn't laugh at them. This facility cost $20 million to build--at least the KIA (sponsorship) logo was glowing on the training centre building. I asked an Impact official about Stefan Vukovic who I noticed wasn't in the lineup. She said he left the team over a month ago on good terms but his agent had found him a tryout in Europe but she didn't know where. He was the leading scorer in the CSL last season while playing with TFC Academy. Rocket Robin robing@eol.ca
Montreal Impact Academy warms up.
TFC Academy warms up.
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