Vocal Minority: Facts, Frivolity, Football
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MLS Wins and Losses: Week 15
As always you can catch this in audio, with different voices and everything! in the Vocal Minority podcast. Which should be up later on tuesday. The big MLS news of course this last week all seemed to happen off the pitch, most importantly before this weekend games when the news came down that Pablo Mastroeni…
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THE STARTING 11: Toronto FC Reality TV Shows
When TFC announced that Juan Pablo Galavis would be one of the players taking part in this past weekend’s Dwayne De Rosario Testimonial Match, it was met with a wide array of LOL’s and ROFL’s. No disrespect to Mr. Galavis’ football career which saw him navigate through CONMEBOL’s mushy middle but his inclusion seemed…
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South Stand Report : DeRo Testimonial & Toronto FC v NYCFC
Well this was a long day. Not necessarily a bad one, just long. The Dwayne DeRosario Testimonial match was a fun affair. A bunch of legends with varying degrees of legendaryness suited up in a Canadians v non-Canadians. Non-Canadians won 3-1, with Dichio bagging one and DeRo bagging the other three. For whatever reason, the…
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Toronto FC vs NYCFC: What Testimonial? Can TFC Beat The Baby Blues?
Two weeks has felt like a really long time hasn’t it? Even though we’ve had the Women’s World Cup and World Cup qualifying matches for the men’s team all going on, it’s still been odd not having TFC to watch and it’s only been two weeks – we may be getting spoiled. Anyway, they’re back…
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Testify! De Ro Shakes ‘N Bakes into the Sunset
There was a boy from Scarborough, And De Ro was his name-oh! De-Ro-Sario! De-Ro-Sario! And De Ro was his name-oh! – The National Anthem of Scarborough The long and winding road back to Scarborough (Toronto’s eastern inner suburb for our international readers) has finally come to its final curve. While the sun never sets on…
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WWC 2015: Group stage review, round of 16 preview
Alright then, almost 2 weeks in, everyone’s had a lot of fun (yes you have Ecuador! stop crying!), there’s been 36 games, a just about small enough to be respectable amount of blowouts, the odd surprise here and there, and after all that, we’ve got rid of 8 of the 24 teams. Yay. Now it’s…
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OVERHEARD AT BMO FIELD: Dim Sum Dollarama
Welcome back to another installment of “Overheard At BMO Field” your regular eavesdropping on those strange snippets of actual conversation we’ve all heard floating around TFC Land. From strange to wacky to rather unsettling, here are this week’s #OHatBMO “The first floor is now the second floor but the upper deck is also the…
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Episode 92 – 15/06/17 #the2015Thirdies
In this very special episode, the gang takes a break at the reviews and previews to reflect on the first third of the season with their very own podcasting gala, the 2015 Thirdie Awards. Join us as we reflect on the games, the characters and the events that have (recently) passed us by. Click here…
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THE STARTING 11: Toronto FC v Sunderland Friendly Film Titles
Apparently, there’s “Nothing Friendly About It”. So say official Toronto FC press releases about the upcoming friendly against Sunderland. No, you see friends, this is no ordinary friendly, this one is about REVENGE! Apparently. As one or two of you may remember, Sunderland’s main striker is one, Jermain Defoe, formerly and briefly of The Toronto…
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WWC 2015: Poor, poor ecuador. Group E and F preview
Friday started off with Australia vs Nigeria. The Aussies opened the scoring with a very well taken goal from Simon after de Vanna had a long run before passing it off. It should have been offside if the Nigerians were in any way able to maintain a disciplined defensive line, but still, they did well…
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