Before tonight, our worst loss in league play came in our ever second match at New England Revolution. We lost 4-0 that night, and at the time, we were easily the worst team in MLS. Tonight, in the most important regular season game we've ever played in, we lost 5-0, to the current worst team in MLS.

Our home season ends today with a match against Real Salt Lake, who are notorious underachievers on the road (sounds familiar, right?). If all goes as planned, the referee will blow the full time whistle in the 75th minute...or not. Either way, if we don't win, we're done. It's as simple as that.
See you at the match.

For the second straight year, we will play host to an expansion side in our home opener. Our 2010 home opener will be on April 17 against Philadelphia Union, on a nice and new grass surface. I find the timing of the announcement a little odd, given the fact that we are nearing the end of a very, very tight playoff race.

Sorry for the lengthy absence - I am back. And seething with anger. This isn't exactly going to be a warm-fuzzy post about how I love TFC. It's a little negative, so brace yourself for it.
If football matches were only 75 minutes long, we'd be 3 points off of first in the league, and we'd have a playoff spot locked up.

The biggest day in our club's history? Possibly. More to come later.

Toronto FC fan favourite Danny Dichio has called time on his playing career. The man is Toronto FC's first real "legend". Possibly my favourite memory so far at BMO Field happened at 23:13 in our match against the Chicago Fire on May 12, 2007.
He's an English journeyman, having spent time at QPR, Sunderland, Millwall, and Preston Northend.

This realization has taken a few weeks longer this season, but it's still just as painful. After watching TFC shit the bed this past weekend in Colorado, my faith in our ability to bounce back and hit a good run of form is effectively dead. I'm not too urked by a 1-0 loss away to the Rapids - they've been a good team this year.

According to Kristian Jack at the Score, Julian De Guzman has agreed to become our first designated player. Mo Johnston is apparently shopping players around the league in order to make room for him under the salary cap. Anyone else seeing Danny Dichio's two-month early retirement in the near future?

It's make or break time. Well, maybe not - one good weekend of results can make quite the difference in this league. Nonetheless, with a majority of our home season done, we have to take some points on the road, and taking three from Chivas USA tonight would be a fantastic way to start a three-match road trip.

On Thursday, the Houston Dynamo unveiled their first ever designated player, announcing they have signed 24 year-old Mexican striker Luis Angel Landin on loan from Cruz Azul. In signing Landin, the Dynamo had to release Ade Akinbiyi, who joined the team earlier this summer.
This is a good signing.

It's been a long time coming, really. Juan Carlos Osorio has resigned from as the head coach of the New York Red Bulls. After leading the Red Bulls to the MLS Cup Final last season - after a mediocre regular season, mind you - Osorio has led New York to an embarrassing 2-16-4 so far this season.
The 2009 Red Bulls are on pace for record-setting season of MLS futility, something you wouldn't expect from a team with arguably the league's best striker in Juan Pablo Angel.

Goals from Dwayne De Rosario and O'Brian White gave us a 2-0 win over DC United yesterday at BMO Field. Here was our starting eleven: Stefan Frei, Nana Attakora, Emmanuel Gomez, Adrian Serioux, Jim Brennan, Amadou Sanyang, Carl Robinson, Sam Cronin, Pablo Vitti, O'Brian White, and Dwayne De Rosario.

Surely, MLS is now entering a new era.
David Beckham was shown a straight red last night by Ricardo Salazar at the Home Depot Center as the Los Angeles Galaxy lost 2-0 to Seattle Sounders FC. Becks flew in studs up on former Galaxy teammate Peter Vagenas and Salazar very quickly pulled out his red card.

For those of you who paid attention to my very inactive Twitter feed, I was on holidays all week. I'm back now, and here's a quick summary of what's happened in the past week at Toronto FC...
On August 12, we signed Haitian international left-back Lesley Fellinga, who had previously played in the Eredivisie at Heerenveen.

Anyone down for another miracle?
Let's face it - we ran the Islanders off the pitch last Wednesday. We didn't score though, and they did, and in the end, that's what counts. After our 6-1 win over Montreal in June, I'm not ruling out anything. Nonetheless, this task seems a bit more daunting.