Waking the Red's weekly call for your questions – Post-International, Pre-Chicago Edition
Hello Darkness my old friend....
It seems that time has come again. No one wanted it; one cannot really brace for it, but for the fifth-straight qualification cycle, Canada has failed to reach the final stage, the Hex, that determines who will represent CONCACAF at the quadrennial celebration of football: the World Cup.
It would be wrong to say that this turn of events was not expected. But with each new cycle comes a fresh bout of hope... that this will be the time Canada shirks off the short-comings, overcomes the weight of time, and moves on to that final grouping.