That's not going to help with the negotiations Dwayne.

So TFC's first game of 2011 is now over, with Toronto holding Partizan Belgrade to a 1-1 draw on Wednesday morning, a report and brief highlights of which can be found here.  Given that we're only a few days into training and the entire team was substituted at half time, it'd be foolish to try and read too much into the game, but a result against a good team certainly seems encouraging.  

Nana Attakora scored the only goal with a delightfully delicate lob over the goalie/intended cross that accidentally went in, and 6 of our triallists got into the game at one time or another.  One of the second half triallists was King Gyan Osei and sticking with the royal theme, TFC's own princess, Dwayne De Rosario missed a 1st half penalty, which can't help his case for a new and improved contract.

Also on Wednesday the "authentic" home shirt for next year was revealed, and as I feared it does have a big Maple Leaf embossed on the front, as if the one on the sleeve and the one at the top of the crest wasn't enough to emphasise TFC's Canadianness.  I don't really understand why they've done this again, presumably it's all marketing based, to try and appeal to the rest of Canada beyond Toronto, or maybe it's another way of trying to exploit MLSE's Maple Leafs brand, who knows.  I assume TFC and Adidas have done their research and gimmicks like that sell more shirts, so fair play to them I suppose, it's still the best one they've come out with so far in my opinion, so I shouldn't complain too much.