Answers on a postcard the comments section below as to what was going through Torsten Frings’ head during this whole thing? Mr. “Last Shot” even straps on the goalkeeper gloves at one point I think. The best comment gets a pat on the back from themselves at the first home game of the season.
Remember the Carlos Tevez saga? You know, the one that has recieved at least one or two daily mentions on one or two big-time football websites or media outlets over what feels like the last twenty-five years? Yes, that Tevez saga. Well, no it isn’t over but it’s taken another twist, for Mr. I did nothing wrong Tevez has clearly reached the desperation stage to play some football and has therefore apologised to Manchester City “sincerely and unreservedly” and zzzzzzzzzzz…
I really hope this isn’t a sign of things to come for the season ahead. No not the clubs 5-1 victory over the University of South Florida — which, while not unexpected, will still be a good boost to early season confidence — but rather me coming in three days later with a few words on it as was all too often the case last season. Such is life and besides I didn’t see any of the game and can only speculate on game reports as to how they played.
With everything gone a little quiet in the western front, with the western front being the TFC training camp, I thought I’d take a minute to go off on a little rant about everything I am beginning to dislike about football at the other side of the pond — the football I grew up watching, supporting, following and loving. Maybe more than ever the way it is being covered — scandal, gossip and rumour upon scandal, gossip and rumour — has left me longing for the return of the MLS and in particular, TFC, to get my football fix and to watch games without the circus and sideshow that has become part and partial of following the Premier League. Maybe for a while the in depth, hyper-analysis, gossip loaded coverage was interesting, amusing and entertaining, but the way it is going and the depths to which it is sinking, has been losing patience altogether.
How convenient. Fabio Capello resigns as England manager on the day the prime candidate to succeed him — Harry Redknapp — is cleared of tax evasion. You think Capello would have resigned today had a guilty verdict come down on Redknapp? The cynics amongst us would say no. But here we are, four months before another tournament and England are without a manager, without a captain and without a chance. Though the later we always knew about.
I was a bit surprised to open up my e-mail last week and receive one from the club offering me a season ticket. There was me thinking I was in a line of some 16,000 plus fans waiting to get a pass to get me into the ground for each and every home game. Sadly for me the opportunity has come at the wrong time for me and if things go as planned on the pitch this season, I might be waiting a while again in the future.
Okay so we knew the defense was bad, but clearly Aron Winter thought it was worse still, what with the recent overhaul we’ve seen. In the space of a week a second new player has been brought in to bolster the backline. His name is Miguel Aceval and like our other new signing Geovanny Caicedo before him, he’s a man who has spent his entire career in South America. Aveval is 29 and from Chile and at 6’2 and 210lbs should be quite the physical presence at the back.
‘The diary’ is new series appearing on Proper Shaped Balls in conjunction with the new year taking a look back at the end of each month at the month that was for Toronto FC and football as a whole.
In the wider world January was a month of sinking cruise liners and a captain jumping ship, but closer to home it was the month the teams training camp kicked into gear and for the first time in perhaps the clubs short history there was a bit of stability to the good ship TFC with a decent returning core of players.
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All the goals of 2011
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With everything gone a little quiet in the western front, with the western front being the TFC training camp, I thought I'd take a minute to go off on a little rant about everything I am beginning to dislike about football at the other side of the pond -- the football I grew up watching, supporting, following and loving. Maybe more than ever the way it is being covered -- scandal, gossip and rumour upon scandal, gossip and rumour -- has left me longing for the return of the MLS and in particular, TFC, to get my football fix and to watch games without the circus and sideshow that has become part and partial of following the Premier League. Maybe for a while the indepth, hyper-analysis, gossip loaded coverage was interesting, amusing and entertaining, but the way it is going and the depths to which it is sinking, has been losing patience altogether.
Unless you seen the Manchester United, Liverpool game on Saturday you would never have known a game took place. There was little to no mention of the result afterwards or any talk of the performance by either team. Not even the referee got a look-in this week. No, unless you seen the game take place you would have assumed that both teams turned up at Old Trafford, lined up for a handshake and then went home again.
The nutmeg is delivered two, three, and if you're lucky, four times a week at random and is a non-to-serious look at the beautiful game beyond the boundaries of BMO Field and across the pond. Read More»
Torsten Frings
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