Tag: TFC
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THE STARTING 11: TFC Oscars Introductions
What is the only thing longer than sitting through the next TFC Five-Year Plan? The Academy Awards ceremony! The annual homage to Hollywood’s finest (except the shameful shunning of Scott Baio’s 1982 opus Zapped!) usually runs for a solid thirty hours, testing the most dedicated viewer. A bit like 2014 at BMO Field. Much of…
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So Long Gil – This Is Your Time To Shine! TFC Loan Gilberto to Vasco da Gama
To paraphrase the Just For Laughs guy: ‘Mommy! It’s Over!’, so ends the all too short time of Gilberto here at Toronto FC. Sigh. Ol Gil we called him – not because he was poor, not because we didn’t like him; no that sobriquet came from our Simpsons corrupted collective minds as a nod to…
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“CAW!” vs “Hoooonk” – Preseason In Full Flight As Reds Face HB Koge
Nothing like a tasty bit of Danish on a Saturday afternoon! Eat around the swan. Around the swan. Yes, preseason is fully underway and if TFC wants to get their hands on the illustrious IMG Sucoast Pro Classic trophy (“The Succo” to its friends) then they will need to show more energy than they did…
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Toronto FC 0:1 Oklahoma City Energy. It’s only pre season, it’s only pre season.
Ah TFC, it’s good to have you back. The dreamy hype or cynical negativity of pre season can be put away and we can deal with reality, with actual evidence of how things will work out. One game in, how’s it looking? Oh. The first thing to say is the obvious one, this is pre…
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Shivering with Ant……..icipation. Toronto FC kick off pre season against Oklahoma City Energy FC
Finally here it is. Pre season matches, or rather pre season matches that aren’t against high school teams and that we can actually watch. What with the trading being taken care of early and nary an exotic trialist rumour to keep us excited over those last couple of weeks or so, the wait for the…
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THE STARTING 11: Failed TFC Valentine’s Day Card Messages
If you’re reading this alone then it probably means your Valentine’s plans didn’t go too well. If you are reading this alongside a romantic partner… then lock that up. Someone who will read the dopey musings of a TFC website with you? KEEPER! (Not the Bendik variety) Perhaps if you were unsuccessful, you didn’t buy…
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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.…
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Red Hot Reds’ Supporters Romance Quiz 2015
“BMO Field is for Lovers”… said no t-shirt ever. Despite that, today is the day to stop fretting over the Gilberto transfer and dote upon that special person in your life. And no – we don’t mean Sebastian Giovinco. It’s Valentine’s Day – the day to celebrate all things amour… because French stuff is so…
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Captain America. TFC give armband to Michael Bradley
We all knew this was coming. Michael Bradley seemed like the obvious successor to Steven Caldwell as club captain, as much due to his pricetag and reputation as to his (inconsistently last year) inspirational play on the pitch. There’d been chatter of his opinion being very valuable to Tim Bezbatchenko last season, and this off…
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THE STARTING 11: Giovinco-esque nicknames for other Toronto FC players
By now you’ve heard it hundreds of times – “The Atomic Ant”. That is of course the nickname long bestowed upon TFC’s minute midfielder/odd tattoo enthusiast Sebastian Giovinco. Based on an obscure television cartoon, the moniker is meant to illustrate how The Reds’ 5’5″ superstar overcomes his minute stature to perform tasks far beyond his…