For 75 minutes of Wednesday’s second leg of the club’s Amway Canadian Championship final against the Vancouver Whitecaps, things looked good for FC Edmonton to be Cinderella at the BC Place ball.

Keep it clean. That’s the prevailing message from FC Edmonton’s final training session before Wednesday’s Amway Canadian Championship semifinal first leg against the Vancouver Whitecaps.

After starting unbeaten in four, the Vancouver Whitecaps are now winless in just as many after a 3-1 loss to Sporting KC at BC Place Wednesday evening.

Then the Caps imploded, giving up three second-half goals to the Quakes thanks to a series of mistakes in the back that’d have you thinking you were watching the 2011 edition of the team.

“I had two big chances where I should’ve scored," admitted Le Toux, after the 2-0-2 Whitecaps held off the 0-3-1 Union’s second half surge to salvage a valuable point on the road. “I’m very disappointed in myself, because my team needed me.

This was an ugly tearjerker of a game, with the ball stuck in midfield, with both teams cancelling each other out.

Alhassan got 12 of the 18 first-place votes from the membership of the North American Soccer Reporters.

It took just three minutes and seven seconds for the Renniessance to officially take hold in Vancouver.

New coach Martin Rennie, late of the Carolina RailHawks of the NASL has imported a number of new faces and has tried to put his stamp on the team by fostering confidence and positive thinking. Perhaps as a gesture to the members of the Montreal media, Sebastien Le Toux, Alain Rochat and Eric Hassli were made available.

We tallied up our votes, and came up with our list of how the teams will finish, who will win MLS Cup and who will be the league’s MVP. No need to play the season, now. We have it all figured out.