The Chicago Fire Football Club are once again coming off of a loss without scoring a goal, and once again looked to be a shambles on defense. While on the micro, things seemed to be just more of the same, some big picture things made themselves evident. This is what we learned from the Fire’s 2-0 loss to the Columbus Crew.

Failure Starts at the Top

In some ways, we saw this coming the second training camp started. I know I wasn’t the only one to throw sus on Georg Heitz and co.