Toronto FC supporters will be in full voice on Tuesday night in Ohio when about 1,000 fans travel to catch their team taking on the Columbus Crew in the first leg of Major League Soccer’s Eastern Conference final. But Reds fans will also be standing in solidarity with the home team’s fans, who are facing the possibility of losing their franchise. Fans around the league reacted immediately. Members of Kings in the North, a TFC supporters’ group, have been wearing yellow and black ribbons on their scarves for weeks and have lent their support to a “Save The Crew” movement, the brainchild of longtime Columbus fan Morgan Hughes. The 35 to 40 members of the group travelling this week will pin those ribbons on shirts bearing the slogan: “Save the Crew .

Source: thestar November 18, 2017 23:03 UTC