Cyle Larin’s strike unleashes joy and saves Canada from the curse of ‘almost’ | Canada

Ismaël Koné almost passed out. Cyle Larin was almost deafened.

Seventy-eight minutes into a Friday lunchtime where “almost” looked like becoming a Canadian curse, perhaps it was the jarringly definitive nature of that one single, swivelling moment that sparked such an uproarious outpouring of, well, everything.

Until last week Toronto Stadium was BMO Field. In his post-match press…