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  • The Magnificent Morocco? Reds set to move for Ahmed Kantari

    While yet to make it through the red-tape and fact-checking officialdom that is MLS and/or TFC press releases, it seems that The Reds are about to bolster their backline. According to the official website of French Ligue 1 (soon to be 2) side RC Lens, that defender is Moroccan international Ahmed Kantari. This signing would…

  • Closing Time At The Caldwell Arms: Steven Caldwell Calls It a Day On Seventeen Year Career

    Oh Captain, our Captain.  In what has been possibly the most drawn out storyline for Toronto FC this season finally came to an end when earlier this morning Steven Caldwell announced his retirement after 17 years as a professional footballer: It’s not a surprising move; in fact it’s one we’ve all been expecting for some…

  • MLS Wins and Losses: Week 13

    As always you can catch this without all the links and videos and with terrible impersonations as part of the Vocal Minority Podcast, coming out later this week. The big winners this week were the Seattle Sounders. They beat Colorado midweek then took on the Red Bulls on Sunday. They trailed 1-0 before Marco Pappa…

  • MLS Wins and Losses: Week 12

    As always, you can get this in audio form with interruptions and terrible impersonations in each week’s Vocal Minority Podcast.  For the second consecutive week, MLS got weird, especially in the East with the early front runners sputtering and the hopeless jokes now building win streaks, the sack race grinding to a halt. Starting in…

  • Aw Man, Why Always Us? – Jozy Altidore Out 4-5 Weeks With Hamstring Strain

    Well this couldn’t happen at a worse time.  We all know that Jozy was injured in the game on Saturday night in Foxborough.  Everyone groaned as the curse of playing the New England Revolution seemed to have struck again as Jozy signalled to be pulled off, pointing to his hamstring. However as much as I’d…

  • MLS Wins and Losses: Week 11

    Want this without all the links and stuff, just want it to ring awesome in your ears instead? Soon you can! As always this will be part of this week’s Vocal Minority Podcast, including a diversion into what we think would be a fantastic new angle for the Sons of Ben’s ‘Sak out’ protest.  Week…

  • MLS Wins and Losses: Week 10

    As always, if you want this without all these words and links and stuff, and with interruptions and all the quotes in a Yorkshire accent, the Vocal Minority Podcast is the place for you, this week’s episode should be up tonight before Wednesday’s game. It’s astounding how people outside of Toronto aren’t paying attention to…

  • MLS Wins and Losses. Week 9

    As always, you can get the audio version of this with interruptions and diversions by listening to this week’s Vocal Minority Podcast, out soon. We’ll start this week with the top of the Eastern conference where the 4 teams who’ve so far shown themselves to be above the desperate scramble for 5th and 6th played…

  • 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…

  • 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…