New York City FC well and truly bowled Colorado Rapids over in MLS last night, with Frank Lampard scoring the club’s first ever hat-trick in a comprehensive victory.
However, the game took an age to conclude after it was interrupted by a lightning storm high above the Yankee Stadium.
Indeed, the match was postponed for a full 40 minutes immediately after Lampard’s 28th-minute opener after a bolt of lightning cracked the sky above.
Faced with a prolonged delay, the two clubs decided to pass the time by engaging in a Twitter-based blast of ‘noughts and crosses’ – or ‘tic tac toe’ as our American cousins refer to it…
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Stalemate, but still jolly good fun.
Alas, Colorado were left to rue their eagerness to get the actual football match underway again, as they swiftly went on to get themselves tonked 5-1.
Ouch.