10 Facts About Clive Toye

Clive Roy Toye was born on 23 November 1932 and was inducted to the National Soccer Hall of Fame in the United States in 2003.

Clive Toye was a sports writer for the Express and Echo newspaper in Exeter, and later Chief Sports Writer for the Daily Express.

Clive Toye provided colour commentary for CBS's broadcast of the 1974 NASL final between Los Angeles Aztecs and the Miami Toros and for both legs of the 1968 Finals between the San Diego Toros and the Atlanta Chiefs.

Just before the finals got underway, Clive Toye made some comments regarding his hope for an all-Canadian finals that were taken by some in the media to be "anti-Sting" instead.

Clive Toye refused to honour the long-standing tradition of entering the winning locker room to congratulate the victors.

Clive Toye followed that up by taking verbal jabs at Chicago coach Willy Roy and star Karl-Heinz Granitza in the press, referring to them as "cheats" and the Sting as "unworthy champions" among other things.

Clive Toye said that Toronto did not deserve to lose.

Clive Toye became a senior consultant for CONCACAF, and in 2009 was inducted into that organisation's Hall of Fame.

Clive Toye [said] 'They took the third, fourth and fifth letters of Association and called it SOCcer.

In March 2016, Clive Toye began writing a column for Soccerama, a British soccer quarterly magazine.