Vocal Minority: Facts, Frivolity, Football
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The South Stand Report : Toronto v Montreal
Well that was a bit of a letdown last week. Thought Toronto had them, but alas, like an elbow to the back of the neck, they went down. Now we’re playing the pathetically abysmal Montreal Impa… whuh? 17 pts you say? 5-5-2? SINCE F’ING WHEN?!!?! Full disclosure : I don’t care about Montreal win-or-lose, I…
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Toronto FC vs Montreal Impact: Will We See Angry Determined TFC, Or Frustrated, Out Of Ideas TFC?
Tic Tac….ah we know who they are. One of our biggest rivals (sorry Columbus), the city that we invade en masse for away games, the only other Canadian team that’s allowed to win the Voyageurs Cup and the runaway winner of our highly scientific ‘what is our true derby’ poll. And right now they are…
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OVERHEARD AT BMO FIELD: Dip, Sauce or Topping?
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 “I’m gonna start Tindering in the second half.” “Hummus – dip, sauce or topping?”…
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Episode 93 – 15/06/23 #SickFlow
The New York game, the De Ro testimonial, the World Cup, the World Cup qualifiers, the Montreal game and the DC game. There was a loooooot to talk about this week as well as the usual features and nonsense, and we actually managed to get it all into 1 hour 19 minutes! I’m impressed with…
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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…
Work in progress…