Vocal Minority: Facts, Frivolity, Football
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Toronto FC vs Montreal Impact – Voyageurs Cup Second Leg: Electric Boogaloo.
Toronto FC at Montreal Impact ~ 7:30pm ET ~ Saputo Stadium ~ TSN2 Here we go again! It’s time for the away leg of TFC’s Voyageurs Cup series against the Impact, and this time it’s personal! Ah, it’s always personal when we play the Impact, but tonight’s match sees Toronto going into the game actually…
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Episode 140 – 16/06/07 #makinPooBricks
The crew is mostly here to review the Wednesday V-Cup, the exhibition games of both women’s and men’s national team matches, and look ahead to the second leg of the V-Cup. In this episode, Mark enthusiastically gives Vanney his props, Duncan attempts to describe a goal he didn’t see and Kristin is concerned by the…
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The Starting 11: Ways To Improve The Voyageurs Cup Right Away
The Voyageurs Cup, The Canadian Club Championship, The Tournament Formerly Known as Nutcan; whatever you call this tournament it is Canada’s premier club competition. However, despite the Cup’s prize – a trip to the CONCACAF Champions League and an autographed Edmonton Brickmen jersey – it is a tournament that still has issues. The Cup faces…
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The South Stand Report : Toronto v Montreal, V-Cup Edition
A famous pundit once said “You can’t win anything with kids”. And that pundit was spot on as Manchester United went on to lose 5 more games at the end of that season. Sure they won 25 other games after that, and the league, but you can’t deny the truth that kids suck at football.…
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Voyageurs Cup! Toronto FC vs Montreal Impact: Will The Kids Be Alright?
TFC v IMFC ~ 7:30pm ET ~ BMO Field ~ TSN4 Who needs MLS games, it’s Voyageurs Cup time! No seriously, this is one of my favourite things every year – even if TFC haven’t won in awhile, there’s always the hope that this year they’ll take back the trophy and get back into…
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Episode #139 – 16/06/01 #FrankAssessment #supportLocalSeafood
The gang is all in to recap the humbling in the swamp, we look ahead to the Voyageurs Cup tie against Montreal and the usual malarkey. In this episode Mark mishears what actually happens to Seba, Duncan has the key to stopping Bradley Wright-Phillips, and Kristin surprisingly doesn’t like Tony’s idea for a Babouli nickname.…
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THE STARTING 11: Best Things About Giovinco’s Injury
“Nooooooooooooooo!!!” was the shared refrain of many a TFC supporter when the club’s talisman and leading anti-top shelf crusader Sebastian Giovinco pulled up lame on Saturday. When the wee Italian tore the captain’s armband from his tattooed bicep he may have been tearing the club’s hopes for success along with it. Luckily – like TFC’s…
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TFC Fall To The Energy Drinks 3-0, Lose Seba And Continue To Regress
Well that was fun. Oh wait, no it wasn’t. What a mess. And I was poorly prepared having not nearly enough booze in the house to deal with that match. Due to a confluence of anniversaries, power outages and work none of the VMP crew were really prepared to write a post-match for this…
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Toronto FC vs New York Red Bulls: On The Road Again – Can TFC Repeat Past Success?
TFC vs NYRB ~ 7pm ET ~ Red Bull Arena ~ SN360 Ah the road, where Toronto FC is a Viking. Remember the halcyon days of the first eight games of the season? Where everything seemed possible? Now a four game home stand later, TFC has come away with only five points from a possible…
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Episode 138 – 16/05/25 #Babulous
It’s an appropriately undermanned podcast this week as both Tony and Mark miss this one with hamstring issues. Playing the Mo Babouli role off the bench is podcasting’s Duane Rollins, and also we have the most interesting special guest panelist ever, Andrea Pirlo’s in the studio! Be sure to catch this one, the professor’s going…
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