Author: Mark Hinkley
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South Stand Report : Toronto v Montreal
The magic of the Ex. What used to be a cultural festival and a major part of any calendar is just an endless advertising festival. Good thing I can escape it and find refuge in BMO Field where the ball is brought to me by a shipping company, the bench is brought to me by…
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Episode 102 – 15/08/26 #synonymToastCrunch
The gang is in full attendance for this recording (though not necessarily for the game) as they review the thrashing of Orlando, talk about Voyageurs Cup, and some CNE malarkey. In this episode, Kristin breaks Tony with an engineering conundrum of a culinary proportions, Duncan confuses his lions and Mark laments the lack of Vic…
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South Couch Report – Toronto v Orlando
Well well well, look who’s on the bench. Much to my surprise (yay!) is Jozy Altidore and (whuh?) Joe Bendik. One of these makes complete sense, and the other is Joe Bendik. He’s been hung out to dry over the last few games, and surely he can’t be held responsible? But what do I know.…
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VMP Records Presents: “Cog Rats” by Young Tucci
While a disaster on the pitch, the Sporting KC game produced what could only be described as a series of deranged ideas that we followed like a podcasting verion of Alice down a rabbit hole of insanity. It all began as a hilarious series of big screen typos and names, and then quickly morphed into…
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Soccer United Fan Council : Ask for my $0.02, get $7.88 instead
One of the many marketing arms of Major League Soccer is a panel called Soccer United Fan Council. Their purpose can be summed up by this bit of malarkey: This is an exclusive online community where you can share valuable opinions, ideas, and experiences with Major League Soccer (MLS) to help us better serve you…
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Episode 101 – 15/08/19 #becauseNarrative
The gang is all sobered up to review New York Red Bulls, look ahead to Orlando again and postulate the future of the head coach. In this episode Mark confuses his historical footballing injuries, Duncan pulls no punches on the gaffer, Tony has a song for the opposition and Kristin brings us a time-proven medical…
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Contest : Joe Bendik Meme
I’m going to go out on a limb here, and suggest that Toronto FC could very well be one of the most memeable teams in all of sport. The dysfunction, the quoteables, the invisible cheque-signings, Mista – the list goes on and on. In the Pulitzer-esque writing of the South Bar Report, I remember distinctly…
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South Barstool Report : New York Red Bulls v Toronto
Welcome to the annual #VMPissUp as we are #DrinkingWithKristin in an unnamed pub somewhere in hot and humid Toronto. Joined by such luminaries as @grawsee, @bigwulliestyle and @redwineroz for this event, the drinks were cold and the football was lacklustre… unless you were pulling for the opposition, in which case, it was glorious. Celebrating VMP…
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Episode 100 – 15/08/13 #unspectacularSpectacular
This is our longest episode to date (and for that we are very sorry), but there was much to cover in our “100th episode”. We’re all present and accounted for to recap Orlando, Kansas City, say good-bye and hello to a few players and preview the future of New York Red Bull. In this episode,…
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South Traffic Report : Toronto v Kansas City
Yeah it’s late. You see, somebody was trying to actually get to the game on time. They left early, gave themselves, what they thought was, plenty of time to get down to the stadium. Who knew that one set of road closures would have screwed up everything. At 3:00 I had exited the Gardiner and…