Vocal Minority: Facts, Frivolity, Football
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VMP 2016 Final Countdown #10: Will Johnson
Duncan: 11 – A shame about the injury as he’d had a decent first half of the season. By the time he was fit again, lost out in a numbers game as we just have too many similar midfielders, so letting him walk as a free agent kind of makes sense really. Forever a part of…
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VMP 2016 Final Countdown #11: Benoit Cheyrou
Kristin: 6 – Our favourite menacing dock worker – and the most intelligent player on the pitch – the sublime (yes sublime) Cheyrou, our midfield maestro, keeper of the ship during injuries and scorer of the most amazing goal ever. Hopefully we get one more year of his marvelousness. Benoit Cheyrou remains one of my…
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VMP 2016 Final Countdown #12: Nick Hagglund
Mark: 18 – Fell to obscurity and then fought back into the starting eleven right at the end of the season. They haven’t quite beat the forward out of him and I’m perfectly fine with that. Ah, Nick “The Salmon” Hagglund. The defender who thought he might be a forward, then had that beaten out of…
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VMP 2016 Final Countdown #13: Eriq Zavaleta
Duncan: 15 – Did a decent job at the back alongside Moor. Unspectacular, generally unmemorable, but those are both good things for defenders. The nifty nephew (don’t call him that though) had himself a decent season really didn’t he? not at first obviously, but as the season wore on and after Perquis had left he got…
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VMP 2016 Final Countdown #14: Armando Cooper
Kristin: 12 – While maddening at times, the pros outweigh the cons to his presence on the pitch. Often hot-tempered (but only one yellow card) and loves that extra touch, but for the most part they’re better with him on the pitch. Armando Cooper was part of the summer injection of talent (along with Tosaint…
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VMP 2016 Final Countdown #15: Alex Bono
Kristin: 17 – TFC’s big SuperDraft grab from 2015 – wanders more than I’d like, but settled in and did a good job of subbing in for Irwin. Not a No. 1 keeper yet; but the potential is there. From TFCII to the big leagues in the blink of an eye! That’s basically what happened…
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2017 MLS Schedule Released: Start Booking Those Days Off Now!
It’s here! The schedule for the upcoming MLS season has been released and while we don’t know kickoff times for most of the games as of yet, we’ve got the dates. DATE TFC OPPONENT VENUE Saturday March 4, 2017 4:30 pm ET Toronto FC RSL Rio Tinto Stadium Saturday March 11, 2017 4:30 pm ET…
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VMP 2016 Final Countdown #16 – Marky Delgado
Mark: 13 – Inconsistent. Some games he looked great, others pedestrian. Is he going to be a starter? He is. No wait, he’s not, but he is. We’ll say a mix of beneficiary of injuries and a victim of the rotation but by the end of the season, he was often one of the first sacrifices…
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VMP 2016 Final Countdown #17 – Jordan Hamilton
Kristin: 21 – Showed well in the summer when the team was struck by injury, still waiting for his breakout moment. Wow I put Jordan at 21? Actually I’m good with that – though I could have easily put him a bit higher, his ranking is less on his quality than on his playing time.…
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Episode 168 – 17/01/12 #newYearsRevolution
The gang is all refreshed from the break to do a player round-up of the comings and goings and stayings, look ahead to the SuperDraft(TM) and the usual malarkey. In this episode, Kristin has a new rock band/crime fighting show, Duncan solidifies his role as the dangerous one, Mark quotes one of the great poems…
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