Tonight, the Revs; tomorrow, tba

Ok, finally that ‘opening month’ thing is behind us. It’s likely the next couple of weeks will either expose the Fire as a team with some growing to do, or reveal a group ready to challenge for league supremacy.

Since losing to NobodyBeatsTheWiz, though, the Fire have had a couple of decent weeks off the field. The Lider Marmol saga was resolved to everyone’s satisfaction – except for RedBull Nation, natch, but more on that later – although he does not apparently have his work visa for today’s game. Chris Rolfe’s ankle is healing. Word on the street is that Wilman Conde has sold his crying towel business interest to his once and future hermano, Juan Carlos Osorio.

And yet, and yet, and yet … this game is a land-mine. The Revs got embarrassed by us on week 2, on national TV, no less, and Steve Nicol has craftily molded the humiliation of 4-nil into a shoulder-chip the size of Plymouth Rock. What’s more important, in my mind, is the likely return of Steve Ralston in the middle of the formation for the Revs. Ralston’s game is ripe for a late-career wise-old-man makeover, a la Ryan Giggs.

Oops! Where did that come from?

I can’t wait.

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