The Metro Reverse Curse Claims Zach Thornton

The Metro Reverse Curse lives.

What is the Reverse Curse? It is a temporary suspension of all footballing ability while wearing a Metro Bull kit that is magically cured once a player switches kits to another club. There are so many examples of this, but sticking to recent memory (and not in any order of importance at all); Hunter Freeman leaves Red Bull and has become a regular starter in Norway, Gabriel Cichero leaves Red Bull and becomes a valuable piece of their National teams youth movement, Mike Magee has proven to be a key offensive cog in the Galaxy’s overall make up leading the team in assists, Diego Jimenez continues to excel in Mexico, and notched two goals upon arriving back to his country after his RB departure. Chris Leitch even notched 7 assists for a weak San Jose squad this year! And the list unsufferabley goes on and on and on.

Well, now the Fat Cat can proudly call himself one of the many that used New York as a spring board for better things. Zach Thornton, who just last year sat behind Conway, Cepero and a half a bag of popcorn on the goalkeeper depth charts, has been awarded the 2009 Goalkeeper and Comeback Player of the Year award. Imagine that! The Beast not only won the awards, but did so while demolishing his best season tallies to do so. With a tiny .87 goals against, it is a wonder why Thornton was never seriously considered for the starting position here at all.

But that is the nature of the Reverse Curse, isn’t it? Let’s hope for Red Bulls sake that the new Arena washes away the demons of East Rutherford for good . . .

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