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UPDATE: The Alphonso Davies statue in front of my house will be gold-plated and revolve constantly to face the sun.
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Grant Surridge
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Grant Surridge
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Toronto. Via Winnipeg, Prague, Seoul and Halifax.
Toronto, Ontario Katılım Kasım 2008
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Marcelo Bielsa: "I am sure that football is in a process of decline.
"It is becoming less and less attractive because what made it the best game in the world is not there anymore.
"If you let a lot of people watch football, but you don't protect the pleasure of what they watch, that favours business, because the business is that a lot of people watch football.
"For me, the introduction of technology like VAR does a lot of harm to football.
"This sport has a particularity: when it becomes completely predictable, it loses its appeal.
"As time passes, as fewer and fewer footballers are worth watching and as the game produced is less and less enjoyable, this artificial increase in the number of spectators will be interrupted."
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@Kubani7 @24thminute This loyalty stuff has bubbled below the surface of Canadian soccer fandom for decades. There's bad blood out there and it just felt to me like a really dumb idea to poke this bear. That said, the coverage was more positive than I expected. Hopefully we can move on.
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@24thminute I'm very relaxed. I just don't think causing division as is evident by the comments is a great way to garner support. Turned a lot of people off which is the opposite of what it aimed to accomplish.
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This might be one of the quickest ways to turn a fanbase off who more than than likely would have thrown all their support behind the #CanMNT anyways. Big miss on this one.
Canada Soccer@CanadaSoccerEN
Dear Italian soccer fans, Don’t wait four more years. Swap your jersey for Canada. Find us outside @cafedipTO tomorrow, April 4 2026, between 10 am to 2 pm
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The irony about this whole shirt-swap-giveaway controversy is that lining up for hours in freezing weather just to get free shit is the most Canadian thing possible.
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Lol. Shows what I know. I wonder if @CanadaSoccerEN ever actually intended to take the Italy shirts?
Matthew Scianitti@TSNScianitti
Hundreds lined up for 'Forza Canada' @CANMNT_Official jersey swap at Cafe Diplomatico. All the jerseys were gone within minutes. Canada Soccer never took the jerseys, they just handed out 2026 kits and posters. Well done 🇨🇦 (viz via @CanadaSoccerEN) @TSN_Sports @TSNSoccer
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@amato_mike Canada was one shot away from being knocked out in the QFs. Desperation against Finland, too. All 3 games we were the better team by a lot. The eventual dissection of this showing has to focus on why all these games were so close. Keep doing OT, you'll eventually lose one.
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Some final Olympic thoughts on Canada:
Typically when Canada loses in a best-on-best (which is very rare) it's usually because of their own doing. They didn't play well enough, made too many mistakes, etc. But I don't think you can finger point this time.
Are there parts of the roster you can quibble with? Sure. It's impossible for everyone to agree with every player chosen. I personally would've taken one of Scheifele or Bedard and Schaefer, but that's not why they lost.
I also think they should've tried to build a line around McDavid, a line around MacKinnon and a line around Celebrini when Crosby went down to give them more balance. But again, that's not why they lost. They played great in the gold medal game and ran into Hellebuyck's best career game.
The biggest takeaway from these Olympics should be that Canada lost to a team equally as good or arguably better in a couple of areas.
Canada is still producing the most elite players in the world, with three of the best on their top line, but the rest of the world, and especially the US, has caught up.
Sometimes these losses are easier to digest when there's a glaring area that came up short. It can be tougher to process when there's not much Canada could've done differently.
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Grant Surridge retweetledi
This is ridiculous misreading of George Grant -- whatever criticisms he had of Diefenbaker he was far more critical of pro-USA elites who wouldn't defend Canadian sovereignty.
James E. Thorne@DrJStrategy
Good history lessons for Canadians As George Grant warned in Lament for a Nation, a Canadian elite more concerned with its own ideological preening than with national interest sleepwalked the country into preventable loss of economic well being. History doesn’t repeat exactly, but the rhyme is getting loud. While the political class is gripped by TDS and performative outrage, what Canada actually needs is a hard‑headed, pragmatic deal with President Trump; did no one learn the lesson from the Diefenbaker episode in the late 1950s, when Ottawa’s posturing left us weaker, not stronger? Recall, the Diefenbaker–Kennedy debacle of the early 1960s, when personal animus and ideological posing poisoned the relationship and destabilized Canadian politics? Treating a U.S. president as a cartoon adversary might feel good in the moment, but as that episode showed, this lack of respect is a disastrous way to manage an asymmetric relationship on which Canadian security and prosperity ultimately depend. Yes History rhythms. 👇
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The replies to this are a tiny taster of the info ops that will be taking place if / when this happens.
David Staples@DavidStaplesYEG
If Quebec holds a referendum, we won't see the love-in for Quebec across Canada that we saw in 1995. Many will argue it's best for Quebec to go its separate way. Many more will utterly reject any notion that Quebec should get more $$$$ and power within Canada. You?
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Looking at Group J, I have to wonder if there's ever been a World Cup group in which all countries start with the same letter.
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#CanMNT qualified for the knockout rounds of last summer's Copa America after benefitting from red cards in each of their last two group-stage matches. Yes, this is disappointing, but the project will be judged on what happens next summer.
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A sitting U.S. Senator was just forcibly thrown out of a DHS presser.
A SITTING U.S. SENATOR was physically stopped from asking questions in an OPEN PRESS CONFERENCE.
This. is. not. normal.
Bill Melugin@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: California Democratic Senator @AlexPadilla4CA just crashed DHS Secretary Noem’s press conference in LA and was forcibly removed.
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I’m not sure Gabe Vilardi is going to be able to fix this.
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The fact that we didn't ever really come close to scoring is probably cause for mild concern.
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Yeah, we lost. But we did carry the balance of play against a Mexico team with home-field advantage and were denied a crystal-clear penalty that would have changed everything. It's not *that* long ago that this situation would have been unthinkable for #CanMNT
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My regular Super Bowl reminder that no, it’s not "like a chess match out there"!
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@24thminute Do we have drive-by fans for men's basketball? I would assume that if you follow the NBA, you would at least have a sense that these players are objectively good.
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This is staggering shocking. And the drive-by fans will see this and decide that we “suck” rather than they just came up really flat at the worst possible time
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Grant Surridge retweetledi
From my understanding:
Because FIFA moved the Canada Soccer case immediately from the Disciplinary Committee directly to the FIFA Appeal Committee, Canada can appeal this at the CAS much faster.
It would allow for an appeal to have an impact on the Olympic tournament.
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Grant Surridge retweetledi
I'm going to keep saying it, the advantage you get from spying on every practice in a tournament is less than that from one dive in the penalty area. It is certainly much, much less than two wins. But a drone is novel cheating, while diving is cheating the TV tells us to accept.
Devin Heroux@Devin_Heroux
JUST NOW FIFA ruling just in on drone scandal. Canada deducted six points at Olympics. Fined CHF 200,000. Priestman, Lombardi and Mander suspended from any football related activity for a year. Full FIFA STATEMENT
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Proud of the lads. What a shift. They captivated the nation, again!
Bright spots today included Johnston, Cornelius, Kone (other than that incident), Larin.
I know they’re sick of moral victories but people who’ve never spoken to me about soccer before have been talking about #canmnt 🍁
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Well. This is bitterly disappointing in real time, but I suspect we'll all feel better before too long. #CanMNT
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