Category: Match Previews & Reports
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Toronto FC vs Real Salt Lake: Not The South Couch Report
*I know that usually one of the VMP folk post a minute by minute (more or less), however this week you’ve got my ramblings instead.* The first weekend in the 2017 MLS season has come and gone, and being the first spate of games there’s not really a lot to takeaway – teams are obviously…
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2017 MLS & TFC Preview: New Teams, New Players, New Season! Will Toronto FC Go All The Way This Year?
The 2017 season is upon us! After a super short off season (apparently the shortest ever for MLS), it’s time to once again agonise over the ups and downs of your team, banter with fans from other teams and of course spend large swaths of your free time (either at the stadium, at the pub…
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The South Stand/Couch Report : Toronto v Seattle, MLS Cup Final edition
Full disclosure : The first part was written before the game, the match report was written while watching the PVR’d version. Pre-Game : Fuck, another match report?!? It’s like the club is trolling me! And for all the hard work I’ve done for this club : making fun of it, mocking it, taking the piss…
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Toronto FC vs Seattle Sounders: MLS CUP FINAL!!!
Toronto FC vs Seattle Sounders ~ Dec. 10th ~ 8pm ET ~ BMO Field ~ TSN The above picture is from the final game of Toronto FC’s inaugural season. When the game ended (a come from behind 2-2 draw against the tea terrorists), the fans joyfully stormed the pitch – I from my seats in…
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The South Stand Report : Toronto v Montreal, 2nd leg
I’m not about to write anything you haven’t already heard or don’t already know. You know what happened. You know. It’s been a blur. It’s incredible. This is still bonus time. I just wanted one home playoff game. Just one, and I’d be happy. Everything else is bonus time. Now we’re on the cusp of…
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Toronto FC vs Montreal Impact: Eastern Conference Final Leg 2 – Aaaahhhhhh!!!
Toronto FC vs Montreal Impact ~ 7pm ET ~ BMO Field ~ TSN Anxiety level: High That’s it really – the excitement, the nerves, the ANXIETY! But at the same time I’m strangely relaxed – tonight’s game (historic, one of the games we’ve longed for the past 10 seasons, etc) is much more than…
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The South Couch report: Montreal vs Toronto, 1st leg.
So, a couple of weeks back, in the podcast we wondered what other events might cause a scheduling conflict at the big O. One of the options put out was ‘Just for Laughs gags. Live!’ Guess what we got today at ‘the Big D’Oh’ (TM Vic Rauter). Yes, with the game just a few minutes…
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Toronto FC vs Montreal Impact: Eastern Conference Final Leg 1
Toronto FC vs Montreal Impact ~ Tues. Nov. 22nd ~ Stade Olympique ~ 8pm ~ TSN These are heady times for TFC fans; after what’s felt like non-stop futility for close to a decade, the team has become the sum of its parts and are poised to head to the MLS Cup – assuming that…
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The South Couch Report : New York v Toronto, 2nd leg
Well, that’s fucked up. For those that don’t know (doubt it) Montreal has eliminated the Extreme Beverages from the playoffs. What that means is that Toronto would have the second leg IF they advance. And that’s brilliant news. The mouth waters at the thought. So good. On the west coast, as of writing, the Galaxy…
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Toronto FC vs New York City FC: Can TFC Hold On To Their Advantage and Advance?
Toronto FC vs New York City FC ~ 6:30pm ET ~ Yankee Stadium ~ TSN4 So this is what it feels like to have a successful team – improved standings, vastly improved defence, winning their way into the playoffs and of course that wonderful playoff home win last weekend – this is what the other…