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  • THE STARTING 11: Differences Between the MLS Cup and the Grey Cup

    Great news Toronto football fans – the Grey Cup is being hosted at BMO Field in 2016! Bad news Toronto football fans – the Grey Cup is being hosted at BMO Field in 2016! Those of you who prefer your football ball-shaped and played with feet are finally awakening to the reality that BMO Field…

  • OVERHEARD AT BMO FIELD: Zizou, Za, Zoo

    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   “Zidane could still come to MLS. No doubt. MVP for sure.”   “Even the worst…

  • OVERHEARD AT BMO FIELD: #OHatBMO

    Those of us that have decamped in the stands of BMO Field since 2007 know that the home side hasn’t always done enough to keep everyone’s undivided attention at all times. It’s those quiet lulls in the crowd noise where a snippet of conversation wafts into your ears on the Lake Ontario breeze. It wasn’t…

  • Episode 88 – 15/05/26 #SonOfAPitch

    Episode 88 – 15/05/26 #SonOfAPitch

    Well, it was bound to happen. The gang gets wrapped up in one topic so long that it just becomes it’s own episode. And striking while the iron is hot, here’s our discussion on the current dramas at BMO Field. Tune in later this week, for the regular episode with the usual malarky. Click here…

  • THE STARTING 11: Other Legacies Tim Leiweke Could Leave Behind

    If God forbid you ever get the news that you have one year left to live, immediately go out and promise everyone you meet you’ll buy them a beer in 366 days. People will think you’re a pretty righteous dude at the time and once they eventually find out there’s nothing but an empty, broken…

  • Toronto FC vs. Portland Timbers: Black Is The New Plaid

    As happens, well, pretty much every season since 2007, the miserable news off the pitch is once again overshadowing the miserable news on the pitch at BMO Field. When The Reds take to the field against our hipster friends from Oregon (Saturday 5PM; TV: TSN) the big story for many won’t be the starting XI,…

  • “Will BMO Field Break Or Bend?” – A Musical Tribute to Your Ignored Fears

    “You know a sports and entertainment group with a Major League Soccer club is a little like the mule with the spinning wheel. No one knows how they got it, and danged if they know how to use it.” We know it’s a tough day in TFC Land. The breaking news that has, well, been…

  • THE STARTING 11: Occasions For Fireworks At BMO Field

    Is there a stadium in all of football that enjoys more useless pyrotechnic displays than BMO Field? Daytime? Sure! Anthems finished? Go to town! In the grand scheme of TFC/BMO Field ills this ranks pretty low but it was during the post-match of TFC’s Voyageurs Cup elimination last week where the ridiculousness of it all…

  • Toronto FC vs Houston Dynamo: After Six Long Months TFC Finally Return Home

    Finally!  Finally we get to head down to BMO Field – sorry, the newly renovated, improved, shiny, tunnel club having BMO Field – to watch our Reds.  After more than six months, a silly amount of drafts, player signings, player injuries and eight games on the road we finally get to watch our Toronto FC…

  • THE STARTING 11: Headlines MLSE Will Use To Make Argos To BMO Seem Positive

    The day that none of us have been waiting for since 2007 seems likely to be confirmed any moment now (if it hasn’t already by time you read this). BMO Field, Canada’s first “soccer specific” stadium will soon be downgraded to a “soccer first” stadium and then, sometime in the summer of 2016, a “kinda,…