TUCSON, Ariz. – “This is rubbing it in Seattle’s face as much as possible, more than anything,” Matt Walls, one of the key members of the TA Desert Corps says, when asked to describe the group’s Wednesday tifo. The display, unveiled ahead of the Portland Timbers’ 2-1 vicotry over the rivals Seattle Sounders in the Mobile Mini Sun Cup, spanned the better part of a section at Kino Sports Complex’s North Stadium.
“When you get to knock them out of the playoffs in their house, in a shootout,” Walls adds, “you’ve just got to remind them.”
The southern locus of the TA (Timbers Army) Desert Corps may reside nearly 1400 miles from Portland, Ore.