Vocal Minority

Author: Tony Walsh

  • Few Alti-ternatives: Did Toronto FC Grab The Best Deal Available?

      WARNING: This article contains some explicit assumptions. Reader discretion is advised. While no one in the past, present or future universe will ever describe MLSE as paupers, the final move in the Bloody Big Deal may have come down to a case of beggars can’t be choosers. While the imminent transfer that will end…

  • MALIGNANT RUMOUR: Ruiz-y does it.

    Silly season continues in the land where five-year plans are on a ten-year lease. With Jozy, Ade and The Atomic Ant all in a holding pattern, today’s wacky whispers landed on Fulham and Costa Rica international, attacker Bryan Ruiz. Noted truth tellers the Daily Mail threw out a couple of lines towards the end of…

  • THE STARTING 11: Re-branding ideas for the lower MLS SuperDraft rounds

    At last count, MLS’ ever-expanding tally of clubs will be selecting draft eligible players over thirty-something rounds of the SuperDraft. OK, I may be exaggerating – slightly – but talk to me in a couple of years when Las Vegas is on the clock. Back to the present though and while MLS loves to trump…

  • MALIGNANT RUMOUR: Toronto FC looking to Add­-a-­bayor?

    While TFC’s lustful gaze in the direction of Jozy Altidore is gaining the most traction on the rumour mill today, their apparent interest in Tottenham’s Togolese international striker Emmanuel Adebayor won’t go away. It really needs to though. For those out there who don’t also support one of Adebayor’s former clubs (or in my case, his current) you…

  • THE STARTING 11: Not Entirely Unbelievable 2015 TFC Headline Predictions

    Happy New Year Vocal Minorities! It’s exciting to be back for another year and to bust out the very first Starting 11 of 2015. There’s a dramatic 12 months ahead what with TFC’s 58-match road trip to start the season; the ceremonial gridiron painting as we ready for the Argos in 2016; the Vanney/Bezbatchenko sacking…

  • THE STARTING 11: Most Returned Toronto FC Inspired Christmas Gifts

    Sorry fans but that most holy of holy days, ­Boxing Day, ­has come and gone. A big part of celebrating the day when Jesus beat “Smokin’” Joe Frazier for the Heavyweight Title, (My history may be shaky. I drank a lot of egg nog. Sue me.), is collecting your gift receipts and returning those unwanted…

  • Do They Know It’s Beznisstime?

    A Band-Aid for Christmas It’s almost that most special time of year for TFC fans both young and old. Lists have been made, wishes offered up – all there is left to do is wait and see what presents we may get! No I’m not talkin’ about Christmas you greedy so-and-so’s – I’m talkin’ transfer…

  • Leave at the Apollon! Doneil Henry heading to Hammers

    Good news! That Apollon Limassol kit with number 4 and “HENRY” on the back arrived just in time for Christmas! Baaaaad news! Do you like claret and blue instead? In a move so rife with ML-esque style bureaucracy, intrigue and mystery that streetz Don Garber would say “Damn son, dat’s tight” – Toronto FC’s homegrown…

  • THE STARTING 11: Other new buzzwords used during the TFC “vision” meeting

    Late last week, journalists were invited to TFC’s Downsview training facility to be regaled with the current club management’s vision for the future. We aren’t sure if dictionaries were handed out at the door but a lot of really, really big smart-guy words were thrown around to explain away The Reds “just missing out” (My…

  • DP Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Swearing and Tolerate Thierry Henry

    It hurts to write this. Hurts real bad. Even thinking about it makes me feel dirty. But here goes… My earliest – and still many of my best – sporting memories are of my younger self craning my neck from amidst the burly throng of Londoners packed together on White Hart Lane’s Shelf Side. It…