News of TFC’s expenditures arrived on that side of the planet early last year without a peep from Toering-Boyes. But sometimes it’s like, ‘How could they dare lose another one?’ ”Īdding salt to the wound the last few seasons has been TFC’s payroll, one that makes it one of the league’s richest teams. “I’ll try and go back to sleep after seeing the score. That habit, he said, has led to a number of sleepless nights.įollowing the Reds has been stressful for everyone involved - especially when all you can do is follow games via Twitter updates. If I wake up early, I’ll look at the score (on my phone).” “Most of the time I’m sleeping during the games,” Toering-Boyes explained. The 60-year-old grandfather, formerly of Waterloo, Ont., has a different Matchday - well, bedtime - routine then every other TFC supporter.Īfter all, Myanmar is roughly 10 hours ahead of North America’s eastern time zone. “Trying to get the details as to what really happened in games is difficult,” Toering-Boyes told the Toronto Sun this week from his apartment in Yangon, where his wife works for a small NGO.
The once-reclusive southeast Asian nation, until recently, was North Korea-like in its restrictions - which makes following MLS from that far away a near impossibility. Glenn Toering-Boyes is, as he described it, attempting to be a TFC supporter in a nation that’s stuck in the early 1990s - before Major League Soccer’s inaugural season. Living in Myanmar, he even warned he “had to be careful” what he said due to recent military rule, a statement he later clarified was fabricated, as far as we knew. One of Toronto FC’s most loyal fans hasn’t seen an MLS match in years.
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