THE STARTING 11: Toronto FC v Sunderland Friendly Film Titles
Apparently, there’s “Nothing Friendly About It”. So say official Toronto FC press releases about the upcoming friendly against Sunderland. No, you see friends, this is no ordinary friendly, this one is about REVENGE! Apparently. As one or two of you may remember, Sunderland’s main striker is one, Jermain Defoe, formerly and briefly of The Toronto Defoes. We could get all up in arms about yet another friendly...
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 pizza in the world is still better than the best...
Toronto FC vs DC United: TFC Face A Tough Test Against A Top Team
What can kill a nice run of form and dampen supporter spirits? Why a road game against the best team in the league missing multiple key players! Whee! It’s one of those “do we have to play this game now?”, kind of situations. Normally I’d actually look forward to TFC taking on DC United (7pm ET, SN360); it’s a series I enjoy, there’s a ridiculous amount of history between the two teams and...
Toronto FC vs San Jose Earthquakes: Can TFC Escape Being Shaken?
It is an odd thing to be looking ahead to a game with some positivity; but even given the large number of injured TFC players and a decent San Jose Earthquakes team coming to town there’s not the usual sense of foreboding….Wait, what’s that? Hold on! Due to what I can only presume was a localised earthquake my carefully researched, analytic, heavily detailed and exhaustive match preview has fallen into a crack and...
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 really meant for you but nonetheless an amusing, alarming or downright strange sentence becomes a peculiar...



