File under “Oh please, oh please…”

Tom Dunsmore, the Once and Future King of all Chicago-area football blogs – and proprietor of the fantastic Pitch Invasion – has the goods yet again in this brief piece about the possibility of Peter Wilt moving back into the Fire. The good bits come courtesy of a longer piece by Jay Hipps of Center Line Soccer on his dinner with the great man this weekend.

Short story shorter, it’s possible. Mmmmaybe. Could be. We’ll see.

At the end of the day, though, it’s hard to see how the Fire can fail to improve under the care of either interim GM Javier Leon or Wilt. Leon built a pretty solid foundation for Chivas USA when he was with that club.

And Peter Wilt – I’m going to go out on a limb and say that no one, anywhere, means more to the legacy of the Fire at this point than Wilt. Not Peter Nowak, not Chris Armas, nobody. Peter Wilt understands the way fan support grows organically. He understands the way passion breeds passion. He has a decent eye for talent, both on the pitch and in the office.

And, y’know, he’s one of us. After three years of being told to fuck right the fuck off if we want to know what’s going on, I’m guessing that a Wilt regime would be slightly different. I mean, the guy still has question-and-answer threads going on BigSoccer.

Access, passion, commitment, community – Wilt’s the one who gets it. Let’s hope we’re the ones who get him.

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