For the Chicago Fire, an upcoming three-match homestand against Nashville SC, CF Montréal, and Toronto FC is quite possibly the most important stretch of the season thus far. Frank Klopas’ team managed to extract six points from a possible nine during their difficult roadtrip over the last two weeks,
Oh hi! I’m Jiggly. And it’s a Tuesday. It’s interesting how the entire landscape of sports media can change overnight. From the newspaper, to the radio, then somehow back to the newspaper again. From broadcast to online. Anyway, Twitter is acting up again and this time the
Off the back of two away wins, the Fire headed out to Orlando for the last match of their three-game road trip. Despite positive glimpses here and there, the Fire were by no means the better team in this match. However, several instances of, um, interesting officiating left a
Three in a row was too good to be true. Despite a relatively strong performance all things considered, the Chicago Fire’s unlikely winning streak away from home came to an end as they were comfortably defeated 3-1 by Orlando City at Exploria Stadium. In a match in which
[podcast_subscribe id="2689"] In today's episode of the MIR97 Podcast the lads (led by DJ) discuss the recent signing of Fire DP, Ousmane Doumbia, along with the club's successful 2 game winning streak ON THE ROAD. Additionally, the boys congratulate and celebrate Chicago
[podcast_subscribe id="2688"] Episode 17 of the Men in Red 97 Podcast is the pod’s first solo episode (and no it’s not in Italian), where Alan talks a bit about international games featuring Fire players and the USMNT, as well as previewing the Fire’s
The Fire are in their best form of the season so far after having won their last two games in the league. Coming off of the back of these two important wins against the Portland Timbers and Kansas City Sporting, the Fire will be looking to take all nine points
Following their first back-to-back road wins in a decade, the Fire travel to Orlando City looking for the threepeat away from home - something the team last accomplished in 2009 with a 3-2 victory over the now-defunct Chivas USA. Orlando – currently in 7th place and holding the
The Fire officially announced Ousmane Doumbia would be filling the team’s third and final Designated Player (DP) spot, joining the team from sister club FC Lugano. The team confirmed Wednesday that the 31-year-old midfielder from Adjamé, Côte d’Ivoire is on loan from the Swiss club through
You may be able to assume from the absolutely hilarious and not forced at all title that Inter Miami lost once again, this time 4-1 to the Philadelphia Union. Although it remains entirely possible they make the playoffs with the additions of Messi and friends, Miami continues to make
Oh hi! I’m Jiggly. Welcome to my new weekly column here at MenInRed97, where I’ll be coming in with various thoughts about the Chicago Fire, soccer, and other things of that sort. We’ve been giving you guys some great logical analysis and reporting, but clearly, what everyone
After what was, in truth, a woeful start to the MLS season, which saw the Fire in 14th out of 15th in the East, the Fire have gotten their second half of the 2023 campaign off to an electric start by securing back-to-back away wins. On Wednesday, the
With the Fire grabbing a mid-week away win over the Portland Timbers, not many Fire fans or MLS viewers in general expected the Chicago to get another win from the remainder of their three-game road trip, but for the first time in over a decade, they reached back-
https://twitter.com/meninred97/status/1672796828947955713?s=20 The Fire’s starting goalkeeper again showed why he’s one of the league’s brightest young talents as he notched his second clean sheet of the season in MLS Matchday 21. Starting for Chicago in Kansas City three days after presiding
Four days after leaving Portland with their first-ever victory against the Timbers, the Fire continued their three-game road swing to face Sporting Kansas City at Children’s Mercy Park in Kansas’s eponymous city, looking for their second road win in a row and fourth against a Western
The Fire have signed Doumbia. No, this isn’t FIFA 13. And no, it isn’t the same Doumbia… that’s his brother. On the surface, this is a head-scratcher. Ousmane Doumbia is a 31-year-old central midfielder from Swiss sister club Lugano, and he’ll occupy the
