Category: Analysis & Opinion
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South Couch Report : Philadelphia v Toronto
One game win streak! Hottest club in MLS! Altidore for MVP! Sometimes I just can’t help it. Sometimes it just writes itself. This is the final game of the club made for TV as next weekend is a home game. I miss going out to the park. Misfit football at times, but I love game…
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Ashtone Morgan Turns 100: Happy 100 Toronto FC Appearances Ashtone!
It’s fitting in a way, that Ashtone Morgan is the first Toronto FC player to get 100 appearances with the club. Sure there are arguments to be made for others that have served – Stefan Frei, Doneil Henry and Dwayne De Rosario are the ones that gets mentioned the most often – but myself…
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The Italian Job(s) – Pondering TFC’s Rumoured Italian Interests
“You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!” – Michael Caine’s character Charlie Croker in the film “The Italian Job” – Most TFC fans two years into the latest MLSE regime change “That’s a spicy rumour!”… And all sorts of other hackneyed Italian stereotypes abound as more winds of change could be wafting through…
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FC Dallas 3:2 Toronto FC. Same Tactics, Same Problems, Same Results.
So then. You’re on a 3 game losing streak, playing away from home, against a team with a point to prove after they just got hammered last week, with a very makeshift defence. Do you maybe try and play it safe to start the game, take the sting out of the energy the opposition starts…
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BMO Field Expansion: Renovations Will Go Down To The Wire & Argos Talk Is Being Kept Quiet
New seats, fancy suites, cost overruns, delays and quiet talk about the Argos – those were the topics of the day on Friday when current Toronto mayor John Tory was given a photo op tour of BMO Field along with (still) MLSE CEO Tim Leiweke and Bob Hunter in attendance to say all the right…
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Toronto FC SSH Ticket Delivery Day – Or What Have The Marketing Folk Come Up With This Year?
Early yesterday morning the word went out on Twitter that this year’s SSH tickets were being delivered – which for me means the season has actually begun. I know, I know, they’ve played four games; but if you haven’t seen your team live for months and don’t have tickets in front of you, then it…
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TFC ‘Blue Moon’ their supporters, announce friendly against Manchester City.
It’s a tough schedule Toronto FC have got this year, 7 road games to start the season is already putting them in a hole points wise. When the bigger and flashier BMO Field and all it’s associated money hoovering clubs, tunnel or otherwise finally opens, the games will come thick and fast. The Voyageurs Cup…
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MLS Wins and Losses: Week 5
Things are picking up ladies and gentlemen as despite a few low scoring games, this was another one of those MLS weeks that had a little bit of everything, some entertaining games, streaks approaching historic status, predictable meltdowns, continued heartbreak, a coach spat and much much more. It’s only right to start wins and losses…
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MLS Wins and Losses. Week 4
Week 4, an international break, time for everyone not actually an international to catch their breath and relax in the matching bye week. Of course I lie, why do that when instead we can get the generally sub standard fare we got this week without the superstars, highlighted by a bench with only 4 players on…