COMMERCE CITY — For a friendly, the scoreline was anything but.
Arsenal F.C.’s Gunners — well, the Gunners reserves — held off the Colorado Rapids — well, mostly Rapids reserves — 3-0 on Monday night in an international exhibition, also known in world soccer as a “friendly,” at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park.
Both franchises are owned by locally based Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, but the similarities largely end there. Arsenal is a storied English soccer power out of London,a nd the Gunners are stalwarts of the Premier League and one of the biggest sporting brands in the world, holding a position within British sports culture what Notre Dame football — for better or worse — is to ours.