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New Blogger
By: irish_steve |
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Hello fellow Fire fans!
My name is Steve and ill be taking the reins as the new Fire blogger for The Offside. Let me tell you a little bit about myself. I’m a college student living in Chicago. I am originally from Ireland and moved to US 11 years ago. I’ve been going to Fire games [...]
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NFR: In which I read my inadequacies into the Official Record, effectively forever
By: Sean | 1 Comment
(Sorry to butt in here. This is Sean’s internal editor. I don’t usually do this, but I just wanted you the HILARIOUS SHIT Sean has been typing and erasing for the last hour. I’ll talk in these handy parenthetical devices.)
The last month has been barren, dessicated, a landscape of twisted metaphor ending in eventual collapse [...]
Category: About Your BloggerI’m working on it! Damn.
By: Sean | No Comments
Here I was, plonking along, writing my preview for this year’s first meeting between the Forces of Truth and Light (a/k/a the Fire) and FC Rough Beast Slouching Toward Bethlehem (a/k/a the Red Bulls). And, lo, did a great light shine down, and a link did appear, and the words of Tommy-boy Dunsmore did speak [...]
Category: About Your BloggerPortrait of the blogger as a middle-aged soccer geek
By: Sean | 6 Comments
Hey fanaticos! It’s time for that another pre-season tradition: Welcoming the new blogger to the Chicago Fire Offside!
Obviously, I’ve got some serious shoes to fill. Tom Dunsmore has moved on to greener pastures. Johnathon did an admirable job handling the playoff denouement, despite its downbeat ending. And now … me.
My name’s Sean Spence, and I [...]
My sincerest apologies
By: Johnathan | 2 Comments
I know, I know. I’ve been meaning to be better about this. Life has been getting in the way of writing here, but that’s no excuse.
I’m going to get back into the swing of things. My sincerest apologies.
- Johnathan
Category: About Your Blogger*tap tap* Is this thing on?
By: Johnathan | 3 Comments
Hi, my name is Johnathan, and I’ll be taking over writing duties from Tom for the Chicago Fire blog. Tom did a great job and I hope that I’ll be able to do just as well.
I look forward to using this soapbox as much as possible and I greatly encourage and appreciate any and all [...]
Category: About Your BloggerWhat a Time to Quit
By: Tom | 5 Comments
My timing here is highly contrary, a day before the biggest game of the season, but I’m writing to announce I won’t be blogging here any more. Now I’m actually writing my doctoral dissertation and teaching at the same time, I have to limit my time for writing on soccer, and that means giving priority [...]
Category: About Your BloggerBlanco and Beckham article
By: Tom | 5 Comments
Please don’t mistake me for a real journalist, but I do actually have an article in print on the Blanco signing in this week’s Chicago Sports Review, an excellent local sports publication. In it, I compare the significance of Blanco’s arrival to that of Beckham’s and cover the different reactions of Hispanic-Americans and [...]
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