Vocal Minority

Author: Tony Walsh

  • THE STARTING 11: Signs That Autumn Has Arrived At TFC

    Ah Autumn… Easily one of the planet’s Top 5 seasons. The soggy crotches of Summer have dried while the frozen crotches of Winter loom on the horizon. Over the last decade, Autumn has usually heralded the abrupt end of a TFC season but all that has changed don’t you know! TFC are now decent and…

  • 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…

  • THE STARTING 11: Other Jobs at TFC

    Labour Day, the day we celebrate bringing our first part-time jobs to their full nine-month terms. Thanks antiquated combined sex-ed/civics class curriculum! Anyjobs, with today being the day we celebrate the worker, we thought it was a great opportunity to honour some of the lesser publicized positions at TFC… 11. The guy that puts red…

  • THE STARTING 11: Toronto FC-related CNE Attractions

    Wieners are being dipped into gooey, corny batter; Def Leppard mirrors are being shined; ice cream and waffles are having tender coitus; and, The Polar Express really DOES want to go faster. Yes the CNE – home of TFC and two weeks of carny folk – is back in town and as usual the local…

  • THE STARTING 11: Less Publicized TFC Scandals

    Oh for Preki’s sake! Of all places for TFC to get delayed in – not Houston! It was however the very site of one of The Reds’ most glorious eff ups – The Escobar Three Fiasco – where TFC found themselves for an extra 24 hours this past weekend. Idle Reds are Miguel Aceval’s workshop…

  • 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…

  • THE STARTING 11: Other Giovinco Goal Celebrations

    He’s back! On the strength of 3 1/2 goals against D.C. United, TFC’s tiny talisman Sebastian Giovinco brought his 8 game goalless streak to a resounding end. More importantly it also marked the return of Seba’s creative goal celebrations. We’ve seen the golf swing and the out of control Vespa but now that Giovinco is…

  • THE STARTING 11: Advantages That Could Help TFC Win

    God bless Greg Vanney’s salmon-coloured cotton socks. Our tactical “student of the game” is just so tactically tactile that he managed to make his “MLS Cup contender” side chase a game and lose beyond all odds to one of the league’s lesser clubs. Did we mention that said lesser side had NINE MEN for a…

  • THE SOUTH LITTER BOX REPORT: Special Guest Reporter – Crew Cat

    From time to time we realize that you, our devoted readership get a little tired of our hard-hitting style of investigative journalism. So, once in a while we invite a guest columnist to sit-in for TFC match coverage. Since tonight is the universally awaited second leg of the 2016 Trillium Cup, we aimed high to…

  • 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…