Category Archives: MLS
What’s so super about it, anyway?
The inappropriately-named MLS Super Draft is a tough place to generate super results, especially when all your picks are outside the top 25. With that in mind, Sportsnet.ca’s RJ will weigh in Sunday with his thoughts on TFC’s draft day … Continue reading
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Determination by dolphin at MLS draft
Paul the Octopus is dead. Long live Willy! Or Flipper! Or whatever they call the dolphin who’ll be predicting the first pick at Thursday’s MLS Super Draft in Baltimore. Anyone who’s read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy knows that … Continue reading
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Not Total Football, more total makeover
A big welcome this weekend to a new voice for At The Rails. Ryan Johnston has done plenty of TFC coverage and other soccer reporting for Sportsnet.ca in recent years. He’s here to blog about Toronto’s Reds, his beloved Red … Continue reading
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TFC Mines Aron to Strike Gold
Total football is coming to Toronto this season, thanks to newly-appointed Head Coach and Technical Director Aron Winter and his new management team. Winter will be Toronto FC’s sixth head coach, as the team heads into its fifth MLS season. … Continue reading
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Winter of TFC’s (dis)content?
As rumoured for most of the week, Winter is here at Toronto FC. After four fruitless seasons under four five failed head coaches, the Klinsmann plan was enacted today with the hiring of former Ajax and Inter midfielder Aron Winter … Continue reading
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Bound for Bhoys? Don’t ask TFC
Besides the fact that Tottenham can apparently defend as well with 10 men as they can with 11, the strangest story in football this week has to be Dwayne De Rosario’s dalliance with Celtic, and how little Toronto FC claim … Continue reading
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MLS Cup Runneth Colder
The MLS Cup fittingly came to an end on Sunday night with an own goal in the 107th minute. Most of the announced crowd of 21,700 had smartly exited the building as the game went into extra time. The first … Continue reading
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MLS ponders schedule switch
I’m at the MLS Cup in Toronto, covering the game for the Associated Press. We got some news from The Don of MLS, aka Commissioner Don Garber, before the match. Here’s what he had to say: Major League Soccer will … Continue reading
From Watford to the Whitecaps
Exciting news out of Vancouver, where the Whitecaps have made American defender Jay Demerit their first MLS signing. Demerit, if you don’t know his incredible story, is the guy who went undrafted by the MLS out of college, went over … Continue reading
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Toronto’s Cup runneth over
Our Ian actually has some real jobs… including writing for Toro Magazine. Here’s what he says about this weekend’s MLS Cup final in Toronto, and how North American soccer is coming into it’s own: MLS Cup Heads North
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