MASCOT HYSTERIA: Sammy the Stag v Ritter Frankie
Mar20

MASCOT HYSTERIA: Sammy the Stag v Ritter Frankie

It’s back! Another round of the world’s foremost football mascot showdown -The Vocal Minority Original Series: Mascot Hysteria! After three rounds of inspired battle, reigning champ Roelio has finally been broken! Unlike other bones it wasn’t degenerative disease, blunt trauma or the evils of osteoporosis that took down the Spanish fightin’ femur but an overly suspicious stag from the wilds of Nottinghamshire....

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MASCOT HYSTERIA: Roelio v Sammy the Stag
Mar03

MASCOT HYSTERIA: Roelio v Sammy the Stag

Welcome back to all of you bloodthirsty fans of head-to-head mascot massacres! Mascot Hysteria is back for a matchup of plush pugilism and we have a dandy for you in this round. Despite his nocturnal refrigerator dump taking ways, the rotund mole from Scotland’s Montrose FC – Monty Mole – turned out to be no match for this competition’s first two-time champion and bone about town – Roelio! With 67% of...

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MASCOT HYSTERIA: Roelio v Monty Mole
Feb17

MASCOT HYSTERIA: Roelio v Monty Mole

Thanks for joining us you fiendish fans of fuzzy fightin’ for the latest round of Mascot Hysteria – where football mascots from around the world battle to the plushest of ends. Coming into this round, the reigning champion – LA Galaxy’s extraterrestrial lothario Cozmo – looked unstoppable but was forced to face one of the most unique of all mascots, Pontevedra CF’s “bone about town”...

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Sponsors and armbands and mascots? Yes, they matter.
Feb13

Sponsors and armbands and mascots? Yes, they matter.

For those of you who enjoy (genuinely, ironically, snarkily, however you like) the more esoteric sideshow attraction aspects of football, the side dishes and condiments to the fat steak of the actual game itself, it’s been a fantastic week or so to follow TFC, practically headspinning as the hits have just kept on coming. Let’s re-cap. Deep breath, here we go. New kit leak: It’s as simple as one could ever reasonably...

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MASCOT HYSTERIA: Cozmo v Roelio
Feb03

MASCOT HYSTERIA: Cozmo v Roelio

Welcome back all fans of plush pugilism for the latest round of Mascot Hysteria! This is the destination for football fans that have an unquenchable desire to see the planet’s fuzziest, googly-eye-iest and often mentally unstable mascots do battle in a head-to-whatever-the-other-one-has matchup. After last week’s debut round, we have crowned our first Mascot Hysteria Champion who now stays on to face a new opponent. What...

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