October 27, 2007 CSL media coverage for CSL Championship (from CSL media release)
HEAVY MEDIA COVERAGE FOR CSL CHAMPIONSHIP
Saturday - October 27, 2007
Second game overtime
Considerable mainstream media coverage during the past several days has brought the two-game total goals CSL Championship series to the attention of most soccer fans and the general public across Canada.
The first game at Esther Shiner Stadium will be played over the usual 90 minutes without extra time whatever the outcome, but the second game at the same stadium will include overtime and FIFA penalty kicks if the teams are tied on goals over the two games. The Silver Goal overtime has been adopted and that means two-15 minute periods, but the second overtime period will be played only if teams are still tied at the end of the first 15 minutes.
Following print and radio coverage earlier in the week, television networks CBC (with regional and national coverage), Global TV, City TV, CP 24 provided the most coverage and repeated the news which included ground and aerial footage of Esther Shiner Stadium. CSL Commissioner Cary Kaplan and Stan Adamson, the league’s executive director, explained the reasons for the two-game championship.
“Nobody is necessarily happy. But we feel good it's the right thing to do,' Kaplan told CityNews on Friday after outlining the safety concerns following skirmishes that caused extra police to be called to two games in 2006. Adamson told CBC’s As It Happens radio program the time is not quite right to have both Croatian and Serbian fans attend in large numbers, but that with time, hopefully in 2008, the league will return to having everyone attend these games and focus on what takes place on the field.
The league is advising fans that many items will not be allowed in the stadium, including flares, fireworks, flags, signs in particular.
Saturday’s game kicks off at 5 p.m. and it’s a 3 p.m. start on Sunday. Esther Shiner Stadium is located close the Finch – Bathurst intersection, just north of Finch on the west side of Bathurst.
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