Off the field
Section 8 Fans to Wear Black
By: Tom |
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It’ll be a Black Thursday on national television for the Fire’s Section 8 supporters this week. The reason is a bit convoluted but suffice to say they are fed-up with their treatment by Toyota Park stadium management.
Ben Burton, Chairman of Section 8 Chicago, had this to say in a letter sent to [...]
Fire sale close
By: Tom | 4 Comments
To follow on from Luis’ post today on the problems the Klopas group are having putting a bid in, my understanding is that the Bronfman family, owner of Seagram’s, has bid $35 million with no other competing bids expected.
So the Fire’s probable new owners are very rich, but very not local too. Will they [...]
Osorio is the new Fire coach
By: Tom | 17 Comments
As predicted here some weeks ago, the Colombian Juan Carlos Osorio has been named the new Fire coach.
Two weeks after firing head coach Dave Sarachan, the Chicago Fire have found his replacement. The Fire is set to announce the hiring of Colombian coach Juan Carlos Osorio as the third head coach in the team’s history. [...]
Fire Sale
By: Tom | 8 Comments
The Fire are for sale. It was only a matter of time, given AEG has had a long and not very hidden plan to eventually divest themselves of all their MLS teams except for the Galaxy, but it looks like that time has now come. Three different groups have been in pursuit of the Fire [...]
Category: Off the fieldJuan Carlos Osorio to coach the Fire?
By: Tom | 4 Comments
I’ve been told that the favourite to land the Fire job is Juan Carlos Osorio, a Colombian coach at Millonarios and former assistant for Manchester City and the Metrostars.
He’s obviously got quite a varied resume, he’s young (46), and presumably speaks Spanish and English. Under his brief watch, Millonarios have improved and qualified for the [...]
In Attack of Dave
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Yes, I know that’s a very poorly worded title, and this is going to be the shortest post I’ve ever written. But all I wish to do, in the interests of full coverage on the fire Dave movement, is to point you to the following url: http://www.firesarachan.info/
It’s not the most sophisticated website I’ve ever [...]
Category: Off the fieldA defense of Dave
By: Tom | 5 Comments
I’m not going to offer one, but there’s a man who knows more about MLS than me offering reasons (not excuses) for the Fire’s poor performance. His name is Peter Wilt, he hired Dave himself and when he ran the Fire we were pretty good. Check out his post on bigsoccer on the [...]
Category: Off the fieldThe Fire are in limbo
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Whilst one good reason I haven’t been posting much this week is my obsession with my new pitchinvasion.net site, another is that the Fire seem to be going nowhere right now.
We’re waiting for Blanco to arrive (which has felt interminable)…We’re waiting for Sarachan to get fired…We’re waiting for Salas to sign (or probably [...]
Category: Off the fieldLack of updates
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My apologies for the lack of updates this week. For anyone not up to date, there was a bit from Goff on the Salas situation that was quite interesting.
Apart from that, though, not much news. I know many of you yearn to hear Sarachan has been canned, and I don’t blame you, but I [...]
Salas update
By: Tom | 4 Comments
I don’t usually like to reproduce news from the Trib’s excellent Red Card blog - I have confidence that you, dear reader, are far more likely to check that Fire blog more than my own anyway - but it’s worth doing so today as Luis has added a note to his entry on the Salas [...]
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