New York Red Bulls 4 (Wright-Phillips 7’, Kljestan 11’, Royer 70’, Veron 87’)
There is a long cold coming, a season of dibs and surly insularity, endless frozen evenings when the wind sounds like a chorus of damned souls. The Chicago Fire will have all those nights to plan how to make tonight’s humiliating 4-0 home capitulation to New York Red Bull part of a larger story, and not the end of this shorter one.
The story that we may have been hoping was happening - that these Fire were, as currently constituted, potentially a championship side - has now been conclusively sent back for editing.