Category Archives: Toronto FC
Mentors, the Fresh Makers among MLS Coaches
A couple of really smart people, Rakesh Khurana of MIT and Nitin Nohira of Hahvahd, hypothesized that forced managerial departures followed by an insider successor are doomed to fail, but they turned out be wrong. The researchers thought insiders would be too much part of the messed up scene to …
Bottoms are Up, and Not the Way ESC Means
The durability of parity in Major League Soccer is consternation for some and celebration for others. The rules of competition in MLS mean you can’t just buy your way to success. Roman Abramovich style. It is vexing for people like Phil Anschutz, who had to wait while his minions sorted …
The Discontent of Our Winter and Tears in Tinsel Town
I am agnostic about whether TFC should fire Aron Winter now. On the one hand, changing managers everytime they restock the toilet paper in the locker rooms at BMO has worked out just peachily, hasn’t it? Not that Winter has not made questionable decisions, like playing a world-class holding mid …
Success in Champions League a Herculean Task
You know, as much as I love soccer and MLS, I have a life, I have a family. Sometimes I miss the beginning of games, especially away games that have no regard for PDT business hours. So I missed the first few minutes of the first half because it was …
Here Comes Wondo, DeRo, and Other Things Ending in Oh!
{image of Wondo with a few white hairs in the mix meant to be here, but new format not working for posting pics, at least for us minions) Wondo seems to have a touch of gray, but it kind of suits him. Anyway, he can borrow some Grecian Formula from …
