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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