With the 2016 MLS season coming to an end for NYCFC on Sunday, there’s been a lot of stock-taking in the pixelated and printed press in the last week.
We kick off our media roundup with a well measured piece from ESPN FC’s Graham Parker who posits that, while the Playoff exit was painful, there are green shoots wherever you look following Patrick Vieira’s first season in charge.
“The short and eventful history of New York City FC added another painful chapter on Sunday with the 5-0 defeat at the hands of Toronto FC at Yankee Stadium,” Parker writes.