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The Bonfire – Episode 429: Chris Brady, Impact Player

The Fire got three points on the road — but did it feel like a convincing? John and Tim break down the Fire's clean-sheet W over CF Montréal

Promotional poster for The Bonfire at left and "Chris Brady - Impact Player" at right
(Graphic: Tim Hotze/MIR97 Media, source photo: Chicago Fire FC)

The Fire earned their second road win, sweeping the home-and-away series against CF Montréal. So obviously John and Tim spend the better part of half an hour talking about everything that they didn't like. In between finding nits to pick, though, they took time to shout out a great performance by Chris Brady and the quiet excellence of Philip Zinckernagel, all while wondering if Hugo Cuypers's Golden Boot-leading season is slowly getting overshadowed by the looming arrival of a certain recently unemployed Polish striker.

Even if the performance on the pitch may not have been enough to inspire the hosts, at least John and Tim enjoyed it in style — Tim put on his reporter hat and went to Soccer House, the new soccer-only bar in Chicago, where talked to the owner and met up with John (IRL). The duo talked about what they thought of Chicago's new best place to catch World Cup matches.

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