Vocal Minority: Facts, Frivolity, Football
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Leave at the Apollon! Doneil Henry heading to Hammers
Good news! That Apollon Limassol kit with number 4 and “HENRY” on the back arrived just in time for Christmas! Baaaaad news! Do you like claret and blue instead? In a move so rife with ML-esque style bureaucracy, intrigue and mystery that streetz Don Garber would say “Damn son, dat’s tight” – Toronto FC’s homegrown…
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THE STARTING 11: Other new buzzwords used during the TFC “vision” meeting
Late last week, journalists were invited to TFC’s Downsview training facility to be regaled with the current club management’s vision for the future. We aren’t sure if dictionaries were handed out at the door but a lot of really, really big smart-guy words were thrown around to explain away The Reds “just missing out” (My…
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Forget the results, look at the vision!
As we all know, yesterday was when Toronto FC outlined it’s ‘vision’ to select media. As a non invitee, I had no choice but to first make fun, (this is practically the Vocal Minority’s hippocratic oath: – ‘First, make fun.’) then sit and wait for the tweets and articles from the poor mopes who’d had…
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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…
Work in progress…