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VANCOUVER -- Kenny Miller scored two goals, including the winner, as the Vancouver Whitecaps beat the New England Revolution 4-3 in Major League Soccer action Saturday night. Camilo, on a penalty kick generated by a Miller scoring opportunity, and Jordan Harvey also scored for the Whitecaps (5-5-4) as Vancouver remained unbeaten in seven home games. Miller scored in the 68th minute to give Vancouver a 4-2 lead. Running between two defenders, he fielded a long Camilo cross, pulled back and volleyed the ball into the top right corner from about 20 yards out. Juan Agudelo, Kelyn Rowe and second-half substitute Dimitry Imbongo replied for the Revolution (5-5-5), who saw their MLS unbeaten streak end at five games and overall run ended at six. The Whitecaps trailed 2-0 by the 20-minute mark, but rallied to hold a 3-2 lead at the half and were rarely threatened after New England was reduced to 10 men. The Revolution had scored nine goals in their previous two games, posing a threat to a rebuilt Vancouver defence corps. Due to an injury to top central defender Andy OBrien, the Whitecaps played with a makeshift back line that featured Carlyle Mitchell, recalled earlier in the week from lower-tier FC Edmonton, and Johnny Leveron. They had never played together before. New England tested the defence in the opening minutes, forcing Leveron to head a ball out of trouble and requiring left back Jordan Harvey to intercept a through ball near the Vancouver net. New England soon took took advantage of Vancouvers defenders as Agudelo scored highlight-reel goal in the 10th minute. He ran through Leveron and Harvey before taking a long ball from Chris Tierney and easily beating Vancouver goalkeeper Brad Knighton. Just 10 minutes later, the Revolution took a 2-0 lead on Rowes goal while victimizing the back line again. Diego Fagundez sidestepped Leveron in the Vancouver box and sent a pass to Rowe, who was standing between Mitchell and Leveron as he fired home his shot. But just five minutes later, Camilo reduced Vancouvers deficit on a penalty kick. Revolution goalkeeper Bobby Shuttleworth guessed correctly, but could not get his outstretched hands on the ball. The goal ended New Englands shutout streak at four games. It was the first goal surrendered by Shuttleworth in a club-record 420 minutes, dating to a 1-1 draw with the New York Red Bulls on May 11. Vancouver was awarded the spot kick after New England midfielder Scott Caldwell pushed down Miller in the box as he tried to take a long lead pass from Russell Teibert and go in on goal. Caldwell received a straigh red card for his infraction. Mitchell made up for his earlier miscue by setting up Miller for the hosts second goal. After taking his long lead pass, Miller lofted the ball over a defender, headed it down, controlled it with his thigh and booted it by Shuttleworth in the 39th minute. Four minutes later, Harvey atoned for his defensive error by giving the Whitecaps a 3-2 lead. Sneaking through the back door to the net, he one-timed Teiberts cross in off Shuttleworths hand. Despite being down a man, the Revolution applied pressure early in the second half. Knighton caught a Diego Fagundez header off a long throw-in on 58 minutes. Miller then increased Vancouvers lead to 4-2 with another entertaining goal before Imbongo pulled the Revolution within one on 84 minutes as Vancouvers defence was victimized again. Running between Leveron and Mitchell, Imbongo took a through ball from Darius Barnes and fired it past a charging Knighton. New England pressed in the late going, but could not get the equalizer. 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By the end of the tour, the game of rugby league has become established, the tour itself was profitable and several of the players were given generous payments to stay and play for teams in the north of England. It needed the vision and entrepreneurial skills of a man called Albert Baskerville to pull this off. It must have seemed like a daunting task but he felt passionately about it and took a chance. Where would we be without people like him? Toronto Wolfpack to join RFL Canadian club to enter League One and Challenge Cup from 2017 I can see several similarities with the news on Wednesday that a team from Toronto will enter the Kingstone Press League 1 for next season. It is the result of the drive by a man called Eric Perez, the modern day Mr Baskerville. He has chosen a city that is just over seven hours flight from the England, and with an incredible appetite for sport. This could be a strength or a weakness as the market could be saturated already. It has a hockey team, a basketball team, a baseball team, a soccer team and a Canadian football side. Add that to the fact that rugby union, lacrosse, frisbee and tennis are already played there means that the people either have enough sports to choose from already or just cannot get enough. It is sports mad. Toronto: Home of the new rugby league team the Toronto Wolfpack In fact, Toronto loves sport that much that it bid for the Olympics in 2008 and came runner-up to Beijing. The city is the commercial capital of Canada with a population similar to that of Leeds or Manchester. The fact that it is based on the shores of Lake Ontario make it look a bit like Sydney or Auckland, so can it become a place where rugby league takes root?Well in some ways we need it to. The Canterbury and England forward, James Graham, made comments in Australia recently which implied that rugby league needs to grow its international footprint or the sport would just become a feeeder competition to rugby union.dddddddddddd I am not sure if that horse has already bolted James, but I understand your point. Staying still is not an option.Here is my summation of the rugby league game in the UK over the last 40 years:We have professional clubs which have existed for around a century which now have no assets and live from week to week. They just about survive but are in a professional sporting sense on a life-support machine, and have been for the last decade. They are going nowhere and havent been well-managed in the past. We have some clubs which have moved into the 21st Century and are well run, hoping that the others will improve and allow the sport to grow as well. These have been in the minority in my opinion. The weak have held back the strong. They will provide players and fans the opportunity to enjoy the sport in a new environment and they are going to encourage local Canadians to play the game. Phil Clarke From time to time we get some enthusiastic people from outside traditional rugby league lands who show an interest in the sport. However, we have not been great at helping the good ones and weeding out the bad. It strikes me that the people behind this Toronto project need backing, just as the ones in Toulouse do as well. The world is a much smaller place than it was when rugby league first started and I hope it goes from strength to strength in Toronto. We have got to hope that Mr Perez does not get pneumonia, like Mr Baskerville did. We need him.Critics could argue that we have not got rugby league going in Liverpool so why do we think we can get a transatlantic team to succeed? Well I would reply by saying that this is a self-funded operation that is not taking money from the existing game. They are going to increase the awareness of the sport in a new area. They will provide players and fans the opportunity to enjoy the sport in a new environment and they are going to encourage local Canadians to play the game.Rugby league has over 100 years experience at trying to establish itself in new areas - some good, more bad, but I have nothing but admiration and enthusiasm for the project. Ill be following the Canadian Wolfpack with interest. Also See: Toronto Wolfpack to join RFL WATCH: Super League tries WATCH: Baz and Tez biggest hits Follow @SkySportsRL ' ' '