Tag: Toronto FC
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THE STARTING 11: TFC Lawn Products
Congrats to the Redblacks – whatever one of those is – now get off our lawn! Yes the mulch-munching menace that is the CFL’s Grey Cup has come and gone from Canada’s National Soccer Stadium and leaves only the pitch condition fears of TFC supporters in its wake. This will be the biggest test so…
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The South Couch report: Montreal vs Toronto, 1st leg.
So, a couple of weeks back, in the podcast we wondered what other events might cause a scheduling conflict at the big O. One of the options put out was ‘Just for Laughs gags. Live!’ Guess what we got today at ‘the Big D’Oh’ (TM Vic Rauter). Yes, with the game just a few minutes…
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Toronto FC vs Montreal Impact: Eastern Conference Final Leg 1
Toronto FC vs Montreal Impact ~ Tues. Nov. 22nd ~ Stade Olympique ~ 8pm ~ TSN These are heady times for TFC fans; after what’s felt like non-stop futility for close to a decade, the team has become the sum of its parts and are poised to head to the MLS Cup – assuming that…
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THE STARTING XI: Advantages To Playing In Montreal’s Olympic Stadium
For good, bad or (really) ugly, the first leg of what is arguably Canada’s most important club fixture (for this week) is set for Montreal’s Olympic Stadium. The Impact decided to move indoors onto the turfy goodness and le cha-ching of 60,000 paying customers despite the general crumbliness of “The Big Owe”. However, while it…
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THE STARTING 11: Alternatives To The Name “401 Derby”
You know what the best part of the “401 Derby” is? It’s just how “401”-nny it is. Also, that it is widely accepted as the name for the Montreal v Toronto fixtures everywhere in North America except for one place – Montreal. Tres LOLZ. However, we pride ourselves on our listening skills and so on…
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THE STARTING 11: Oddities of playing at Yankee Stadium in November
George Steinbrenner’s shivering ghost! “The House Next to the One Ruth Built Used To Be” was meant for dingers not fancy-pants Europeans faffing about in early winter! But alas, so it was that local foot and ball outfit Toronto FC and a few hundred hosers spent yesterday evening in the Bronx at the makeshift soccer-baseball…
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Toronto FC vs New York City FC: Can TFC Hold On To Their Advantage and Advance?
Toronto FC vs New York City FC ~ 6:30pm ET ~ Yankee Stadium ~ TSN4 So this is what it feels like to have a successful team – improved standings, vastly improved defence, winning their way into the playoffs and of course that wonderful playoff home win last weekend – this is what the other…
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Toronto FC vs Philadelphia Union: Will It Be Curtins For The Union In TFC’s First Ever Home Playoff Match?
Toronto FC vs Philadelphia Union ~ 730pm ET ~ BMO Field ~ TSN2 Wheee!!! Here we go people, this is not a drill, Toronto FC have a home playoff (play-in?) game! Sweet! That’s right it is time for a little bit of TFC history tonight folks and I’ll admit to being rather excited – I’ll…
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THE STARTING 11: Other TFC Decision Day Decisions
Did you decide? What did you decide?! Were you decisively decisive? Well it’s too late for regrets, MLS Decision Day – possibly their best work in the hyperbole field – has come and gone. While the religious holiday mostly pertains to playoff implications, there have been some other less prominent TFC decisions made over the…
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Toronto FC vs Chicago Fire: Decision Day! Or, The Ol Gil Memorial Match
Toronto FC vs Chicago Fire ~ 4pm ET ~ BMO Field ~ TSN4 Decision Day! Grrr! The day is upon us when all of the deciding will be done – the MLS scheduling gods have decreed that all deciding matches start at the same time (ooh, how continental!) so get ready for some Decision Day…