Vocal Minority: Facts, Frivolity, Football
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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…
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Kit Nerd Corner : NYCFC home & away
Disclaimer : I care and because I want to. New York City FC home In a nutshell : boring, not terrible. The kit feels like it falls out of a catalogue with noticeable exceptions on the sleeves where the colour coded MLS badges will be affixed. That may be standard but they seek to…
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SOUTH COUCH REPORT : MLS Cup Final… or Can’t Both Teams Lose?
Only in North America can you have a summer game’s title match in December. Thankfully, or unfortunately (depending in your levels of schadenfreude), that game is taking place in Los Angeles. Today, the MLS Cup final pits New England against the Galaxy and I almost don’t care except I openly hopped on the Lee Nguyen…
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Episode 65 – 14/04/12 #AwardWinning
You may not really TRULY like us, but you like us enough to will us to 2nd place in the WorldSoccerTalk.com Best MLS Club Podcast award, and for that we all get to express our gratitude. In this episode, Duncan mixes up baseball movies, Kristin thanks her entire family, Tony resolves his Gallic-fuelled rage and…
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Episode 64 – 14/11/26 #NeverForgetToVoteForUs
The season review just won’t die as this week we cast our jaded eye at the forwards. We also look at the new USL Pro team, the latest Red, dispersal draftee Marco Delgado, and all the usual nonsense you’ve come to expect. Mark’s away checking out the competition (have you heard we’re award nominated?) Tony…
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