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Monday, September 13, 2010

THE STARTING 11: Remaining Preki excuses

I have a 5 Year Plan to find out the secret

When the cheerful Serb known as Preki started his tenure at the helm of Good Ship TFC, he would not accept any excuse for a poor performance. Injuries, weather nor schedules were an acceptable reason for not giving 100%. But, a funny thing happened on the way to the playoffs.

As seen over the last month, Preki's band of merry plumbers and grinders have stopped playing for the hard-nosed, anti-football Balkan and the results have gone as expected. The worse the results have been, the larger the volume of excuses Preki has offered. Reds' supporters have heard "unlucky" "we've got a good team" "scheduling" and "fatigue" recently but what excuses are we still going to hear from Preki as 2010 putters into the mediocre sunset?
 
11. "Early Canadian autumn makes players sad and grumpy"
 
10. "Road record is due to poor choice of in-flight movies"
 
9. "Half-time pep talks are drowned out my de Guzman's hairdryer"
 
8. "Cameraman be all gettin' up in my bizniss!"
 
7. "Maxim Usanov's annoying on-field Ivan Drago impressions"
 
6. "Bieber-Fever!"
 
5. "20,000 cheering fans make it hard to concentrate"
 
4. "North America and its stupid time zones!"
 
3. "Nick Dasovic's strange Canadian accent"
 
2. "Locker room obsessed with solving the Caramilk Secret"
 
1. "Girl troubles"

6 comments:

  1. Starting 11 funny as always but that Mo graphic is the best. You should print tons of those for the next match. MO-VE OUT! NOW!

    Upper Deck Ronnie

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  2. Your prayers have been answered

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/soccer/toronto-fc-cleans-house/article1706805/

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  3. I like it. you're bang on as well, no excuses were allowed at the start, by his last press conference he was clearly a beaten man. and now he's gone?

    Very happy about mojo, but i'm sad about how the preki experiment worked out.

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  4. Not at all sad about Preki,he was struggling under the media glare and fan attention. You can be a tough son of a gun to your players, but be a father figure too. Always thought he was too snarky to like.

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  5. And in the "you can't have everything department", it would have been a nice touch to have the firing press conference held at 4pm

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  6. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't let the door hit you on the way out jackasses!

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