HARRISON, N.J. – In a side that struggled mightily from top to bottom, it’s often the stars that shoulder the burden of the blame.
For the Red Bulls, that meant that Designated Player and former Golden Boot winner Bradley Wright-Phillips found his way into the crosshairs.
Perhaps a victim of his own stellar track record, New York’s inability to find the back of the net with any sort of regularity made the Englishman an easy target for fans and pundits alike. After all, scoring 44 league goals over two seasons has a funny way of creating larger-than-life expectations.