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  • VMP 2016 Final Countdown #28: Malik Johnson

    Hello and welcome to this year’s VMP Final Countdown!  With the off season being so short it’s come a bit later than usual, but hey we hear at the Vocal Minority are committed to giving you our dear readers the player rundowns that you’ve come to love.  Really the most difficult part of this year’s…

  • TFC Player Final Countdown: 2016 Edition

    Well sports fans another Toronto FC season has come to an end, and wow, what a crazy season!  It feels rather odd to have TFC’s off season begin in December, and well into December at that.  Usually we’ve been grumbling into our cups since sometime in October, and staring off into the abyss that is…

  • THE STARTING 11: Unused Elements of the Cancelled TFC Championship Parade

    We were so close. Inches away really. What a letdown! Yeah the fancy trophy would have been nice and all – but I mean the parade! Thousands, if not millions, billions even, lining the streets of Toronto to fete MLS Cup Winners Toronto FC. But no, teams that take shots on goal aren’t so lucky…

  • Toronto FC vs Seattle Sounders: A Visual Guide

    In the lead-up to this weekend’s MLS Cup Final between Toronto FC and the Seattle Sounders there’s been several visual representations of the various one on one player battles. Well we here at the Vocal Minority are never one to shy away from (ie. steal, er emulate! Yeah, emulate), a good idea – so below…

  • THE STARTING 11: Other TFC Superstitions

    In a week of good vibes in TFC Land we don’t want to dwell on the somewhat negative effect the MLS Cup ticket situation had on many fans. It sucked for some and the league should know better. A funny aside of the episode however was TFC staff’s explanation that they didn’t want to discuss…

  • THE STARTING 11: TFC Lawn Products

    Congrats to the Redblacks – whatever one of those is – now get off our lawn! Yes the mulch-munching menace that is the CFL’s Grey Cup has come and gone from Canada’s National Soccer Stadium and leaves only the pitch condition fears of TFC supporters in its wake. This will be the biggest test so…

  • THE STARTING XI: Advantages To Playing In Montreal’s Olympic Stadium

    For good, bad or (really) ugly, the first leg of what is arguably Canada’s most important club fixture (for this week) is set for Montreal’s Olympic Stadium. The Impact decided to move indoors onto the turfy goodness and le cha-ching of 60,000 paying customers despite the general crumbliness of “The Big Owe”.  However, while it…

  • THE STARTING 11: Alternatives To The Name “401 Derby”

    You know what the best part of the “401 Derby” is? It’s just how “401”-nny it is. Also, that it is widely accepted as the name for the Montreal v Toronto fixtures everywhere in North America except for one place – Montreal. Tres LOLZ. However, we pride ourselves on our listening skills and so on…

  • THE STARTING 11: Oddities of playing at Yankee Stadium in November

    George Steinbrenner’s shivering ghost! “The House Next to the One Ruth Built Used To Be” was meant for dingers not fancy-pants Europeans faffing about in early winter! But alas, so it was that local foot and ball outfit Toronto FC and a few hundred hosers spent yesterday evening in the Bronx at the makeshift soccer-baseball…

  • THE STARTING 11: Other TFC Decision Day Decisions

    Did you decide? What did you decide?! Were you decisively decisive? Well it’s too late for regrets, MLS Decision Day – possibly their best work in the hyperbole field – has come and gone. While the religious holiday mostly pertains to playoff implications, there have been some other less prominent TFC decisions made over the…