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Tim Bezbatchenko and Greg Vanney reveal TFC’s one vision
Today is the day when Tim Bezbatchenko and Greg Vanney focus on the re-entry draft get together with select media to discuss their ‘vision’ for TFC and the upcoming season. For some reason no-one here at the Vocal Minority is considered select enough to be invited, but not to worry. We got an advance copy…
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New South Stand. New Supporters?
If you’re a Toronto FC season ticket holder, you might well have got an interesting email yesterday, talking about the chance of getting into some of the hundreds of new seats they’re adding to the bottom of sections 114 and 116, ‘surrounding yourselves with some of the loudest and most passionate supporters in MLS’. Tee,…
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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…
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Episode 67 14/12/16 #KakaAndCollin
Mmmmm, smell that new blog smell. It’s the last episode of 2014, with a giddy end of year feel to it. Looking back at the Christmas miracle that was the return of Dan Lovitz, the Robbie Findley trade, the inevitable re-signing of De Ro and all that other TFC stuff, including who deserves lavish gifts…
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No Lov’ Lost - New York City FC exacts a pound of flesh from Toronto FC
Old news by now, but last week Dan Lovitz was both acquired by the new New York club in the 2014 Expansion Draft and then returned to TFC for some allocation money. The move rang some bells that harkened back to the 2006 Expansion Draft, as Toronto prepared to enter MLS the following season. With…
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The Vocal Minority Press Conference
After months of negotiations, agents, back and forth, allocation money beer, invisible cheque signings, visible cheque signings, domain names, yelling, having the cops called on us due to yelling, lucrative sponsorship deals in East Korea (it’s the best Korea), it’s finally happened. And now, the press conference to announce the launching of this new media…
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The Vocal Minority: New Site, New Badge, Same Attitude.
What is this that your eyes see? The Vocal Minority Podcast in text form? Don’t blink, don’t look away, just keep reading as we, the (sometimes) loony lot from the Vocal Minority Podcast return to our blogging roots. Yes it’s true, we’ve decided to go old school and get back to putting pen to the…
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THE STARTING 11: Reasons The Starting 11 is being continued here
Hello, I’m Tony Walsh. You may know me from such long-running gags as “Collin Samuel sure is a fatty!”; RVS HSCNVCS; and Jürgen Klinsmann’s kitty-kat friend Karl-Heinz. Yes, for years on the TFC blog The Yorkies, I was responsible for getting your Toronto FC week started in eleven easy steps with The Starting 11. Now,…
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3 Drafts, 3 transfer windows, 3 signings, 1 new player. MLS!!!!
Time to start looking ahead to 2015 with the wide eyed wonder of a child; a fresh start, so many possibilities, just how will it go wrong this time?
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Episode 66 – 14/12/10 #GinAndBruce
It’s an MLS heavy episode as the usual panel goes over the MLS Cup final, finally agrees to more or less take Landon Donovan seriously for a couple of minutes, thenm gets into the recent trades and the upcoming expansion draft. Kristin tries to pretend her MLS Cup hangover is actually a migraine while the…