Archive for 'chicago fire' Category
Pure Unadulterated Speculation
15 December 2006One of the persistent rumors/questions around the Fire these days is “will Brian McBride come home to Chicago?” According to Soccer America, however, Chicago sits a lowly 12th in the allocation pecking order, while his former club the Columbus Crew sits in second.
Meanwhile, one of the other big questions in Chicago is “what happens [...]
Let The Rookie Win
22 October 2006When I looked at the lineup sheet for the first leg of the Chicago-New England conference semifinal series on Sunday. I was a little worried. On the one hand, it was the same Fire lineup that beat DC United the previous week. On the other, with the left side covered by Dasan Robinson, Gonzalo Segares [...]
Attention Chad Barrett
13 October 2006You might want to change your MySpace username.
Embarassment, The Great Motivator
8 October 2006I need to start by saying I have no real idea whether or not home-field advantage in the MLS Playoffs matters in the first round. So, in the grand scheme of things, dropping a 4-1 decision to the lowly Columbus Crew doesn’t really mean all that much. The best silver lining you can put on [...]
Give Me Just Three Reasons
26 September 2006I’m trying to reduce the Fire’s current run of form to one or two simple causes, but it’s been difficult. Overall, there are probably three key factors at work here, but sometimes one or more of them are missing, and the team still gets a result.
Anyway, the first of the three keys is Tony Sanneh. [...]
Final at TP?
30 August 2006If the Chicago Fire can defeat D.C. United in the semifinals of the U.S. Open Cup on Wednesday, Sept. 6 at Toyota Park, then they will be hosting the final against either the Houston Dynamo or Los Angeles Galaxy. US Soccer confirmed the hosting procedure in a press release on Wednesday. It would be the [...]
Time for Two!
16 August 2006The Chicago Fire faces the Kansas City Wizards for the second time in three days on Wednesday. You can check out this game preview for details. Both teams used backups in Monday’s 2-0 U.S. Open Cup win for the Fire. In fact, 10 of the 11 Wizards starters combined for only three years of professional [...]
Jinx
14 August 2006From today’s Daily Southtown:
The Fire will have history on its side tonight. Not since 2002 has the team failed to advance to at least the semifinals of the country’s oldest open soccer tournament, and the Fire won the crown in 2003 before falling in the championship game in 2004.
And Chivas USA only had one road [...]
Is CJ Brown Leaving Town?
13 August 2006In last night’s Fire-Chivas match, Tony Sanneh got the starting nod at central defense, despite both Jim Curtin and CJ Brown being healthy enough to make the subs list. Nobody seems to know why, or if they do, they’re not telling. I tend to cut Dave Sarachan a lot of slack in his assessment of [...]
Rumors Abound
1 August 2006There are quite a few rumors flying about the future of Chicago Fire head coach Dave Sarachan.
Some fans felt it was time for team president John Guppy to act and pull the plug on Sarachan’s tenure with the Fire after a 0-0 tie with the sixth-place Columbus Crew on Saturday and a 5-7-7 record with [...]