I think it is for the best that that joke of a match never made it onto CBC. Because Hamilton's behaviour was embarrassing. So much time wasting, so much diving and acting, and so little interest in actually playing. And, as we all predicted, the referee both rewarded them for that, and then became the story in the dying seconds on what very well could have been a Cavalry penalty.
What really frustrates me, however, is that we still should have won today. It's easy to focus on how Bob Young's team in Bob Young's league under the supervision of Bob Young's national association bought the trophy Bob Young expected to be given from the outset. But we were just god awful inside the box. I can think of one, maybe two plays where a ball put into the 18 yard box was either on target, or where a player got to the ball. We beat ourselves as much as anything else. And that makes the way such a great season ended just that much worse.
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