Let The Kids Play: Is Toronto FC Really Doing All It Can To Develop Canadian Players?
*This is the first column from Duane Rollins, who will be contributing various thoughts on Toronto FC to The Vocal Minority throughout the season* Won’t someone please think of the children? It’s a little known fact that Helen Lovejoy was talking about the way TFC managed its young talent when she uttered that line on The Simpson’s back in 1996. Seriously. She’s a time traveller. Everyone knows that. She’s also got a point when it...
Episode 170 – 17/01/26 #takeAChance
Three fourths of the gang is in attendance to talk alot about a little with Canada friendlies, player movements, TFC player drafts, TFC pre-season and much more. In this episode, Mark likes his clubs a bit gentlemanly, Kristin gets excited over acquisitions and Duncan predicts the top three MLS goal scorers this upcoming season. Here’s the Sam Allardyce pic reference by Duncan during the #bitchyBlanks segment. This week’s...
Episode 158 – 16/10/14 #cheeseSongs&Genitals
The gang is all present and accounted for (finally!) for some talk about Canada’s national teams, look ahead to Montreal, reflect on the holiday passed and the usual malarkey. In this episode Duncan introduces the concept of the trousers of reason, Kristin channels some goat cheese, Mark has his World Cup dreams dashed again (he probably forgot), and Tony misses his cue (he did forget). This week’s #bitchyBlank is : The new name for...
THE STARTING 11: Improvements To CONCACAF Qualifying
For North America’s tall, goofy guy – yeah that’s us Canada – getting through the difficult maze of CONCA-wackiness that is World Cup Qualifying is no treat. We’ve had enough heartbreak to fill many a Sepp bladder but it’s not just our lack of success that’s tough to swallow but also the convoluted path teams like ours have to take for one of those sweet, sweet 3 1/2 berths this chunk of the...
Kit Nerd Corner : Canada home
Disclaimer : I care and because I want to. In a nutshell : Red with a weird collar and an off-center vertical white stripe One of the things that usually trouble kit designs of national teams is the concept of tradition. One of my favourite misconceptions is that Canada should always and only wear red and white because “flag”. Not that you can’t do great designs with only two colours, but it then limits what you can actually do...
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