THE STARTING 11: Best Parts of Living With The Argos
CAW! No it’s not Bitchy Blanks time but that’s the sound of yours truly eating a little crow over the doom and gloom feelings I held about sharing BMO Field with The Argos. Like many out there, I fully expected the “soccer experience” to be akin to that of Gillette Stadium North this season. However, credit where credit is due – the grounds crew have done an excellent job in minimizing the effects....
THE STARTING 11: Thoughts Greg Vanney May Have While High
This is a work of fiction. I realize that you come to The Starting XI every week for hard-hitting factual journalism, but this is a speculative piece. By no means are we implying Greg Vanney has ever been under the influence of any narcotics. He doesn’t even seem the type to take an extra large gulp of cough medicine. That being said, stuffs gonna be legal up here soon and after this homestand – who could blame him? Of...
THE STARTING 11: Reasons Why There Is No Starting 11
The Starting 11. It’s a feature that I have been writing faithfully and on a (mostly) weekly basis since 2009 – first on a little site called The Yorkies and now here. All in all, that’s about 3,850 quips about TFC that have drawn people to these sites in the dozen. Yup, people from Toronto all the way to Midtown Toronto interweb their way here to catch the latest Collin Samuel zinger. Sometimes over the last seven...
THE STARTING 11: TFC Olympic Events
Now that TFC are good and stuff we can shift our attention to the really big story in sports right now – the Summer Olympics in Rio. Despite the doom and gloom of toxic water and pestilence, the games have gotten off to a good start albeit with the same old sports we see every four years. Since TFC are now the ultimate in all sportsmen, maybe it’s time they got to create the events for the Summer Olympiad… 11. 4 X...
THE STARTING 11: Ways Sigi Schmid described Saturday’s Match
For those of you that listen to the Vocal Minority Podcast regularly, you’ll know that Sounders manager/lunch meat aficionado Sigi Schmid is a “friend to the show”. The big German-born boss often features and chews the fat on the past week’s MLS action. He talks a bit too. After visiting Toronto this weekend and seeing his side grab a draw against TFC, only a man that waxes like a hanging bologna tube could...
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