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Originally Posted by rousseau
Come again? He was spot on.
Sorry, I'm exercised because I'm watching Spain-Italy in Wembley right now. A knife-edge exciting match in the world's most prominent stadium for football (well, at least the name). Sigh...
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It's embarrassing because it's the classic Toronto media image-obsessed take on everything. What people remember from these tournaments are the matches, the players, the winners... not stupid things like the fact that there is a track around Commonwealth Stadium (even the most casual international soccer fan will know that tracks in soccer stadiums are a common fixture in much of the world... Edmonton is hardly some kind of outlier in that regard), or that Toronto didn't host a game.
On a scale of 1 to 100, the fact that Toronto didn't host games probably registered a 2 or 3 outside of Toronto sports media circles. Maybe a 4 if you live in Cleveland and were hoping to drive up to see a game.
Toronto and BMO are closer to Edmonton and Commonwealth than they are to London and Wembley. There is nothing in Canada that even remotely resembles in soccer terms the stature of what you're seeing on TV. So to that extent it doesn't really matter all that much where the World Cup games are being played if you're holding it up against London.