Canada had their chance to take the Hondurans out, and I was on record with, if they slipped into the last group, they'd make it to the WC.
My reasoning was that the story would playout as exactly as Honduras did today. Playing loose, getting taken for granted from the soccer powers and get a shocking result.
Suddenly, brimming with confidence, and after getting a couple good bounces turning into surprise results, holding the fort on for a semi-surprising draws, could be right there at the end, needing just one more result to reach the WC.
Still a long way to go for Honduras of course, but just reminds me of that last Canadian qualification loss, and how it was pure devastation for one of the best chances in almost 20 years for qualification, and that it has set the program back another 4 years or more given the ease of the preliminary draws they had.
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