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It hurt in so many different ways, but nothing cut deeper than the impersonal, almost unprofessional way in which Marc Trestman was fired.

There was no meeting, no handshake, no thank you, no goodbye.

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President Bill Manning, in charge of the two worst teams in the city, the disappointing Argos and the disastrous over-spending Toronto FC, called him at two in the morning. Trestman answered his cell phone while sitting on the team bus, just getting back from the airport after the end of season loss in Ottawa. There were a few players around him, and a few of his coaches.

As Trestman held the phone to his ear, he was typically expressionless. Nobody knew he was being let go. He told nobody. Embarrassingly, he listened to a man he barely knew fire him for reasons that still don’t make a lot of sense.

He was told not to be at wrap-up day to bid his players well later that morning and not to meet with his coaches. He essentially was escorted out of the building on the phone and was told not to return.