I almost called it an era. But 15 months hardly qualifies...
Instead perhaps we had the Thierry Henry sojourn.
It doesn’t often happen; an undoubted legend of the world’s most popular sport walked into our lives one bright November afternoon in 2019, and now, like a great many Montreal soccer fans, I feel cheated. Not because he didn’t fulfill his contract, nor failed to deliver a winning team, in fact nothing to do with him at all really.
Moreover it’s reflective on the blight handicapping our lives over the past year. Covid reduced arguably the biggest, globaly-recognized icon in this city’s sporting history, to a mere virtual presence.