Mark Morris

Striker - New England Revolution
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Marked for Mark Morris

46 Edition

The New England Revolution Chronicle

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Words at New England Revolution training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dániel Gazdag is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

CF Montreal take the points off New England Revolution

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings

Agustín Ojeda runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

Michael Dempsey faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Michael Dempsey after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Squad

Mark Morris in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at New England Revolution this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

Carles Gil knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at New England Revolution, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Talks stall between New England Revolution and Will Sands

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout

Dor Turgeman has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at New England Revolution will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of J.D. Gunn

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

Back issues
39 Edition

The New England Revolution Chronicle

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Luca Langoni hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what New England Revolution can pretend not to have heard.

Match

New England Revolution strike at the death to beat DC United

There were 85 minutes on the clock and DC United had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and New England Revolution did not stop to explain themselves.

Player ratings

Both of them Dániel Gazdag's — 8.36

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.36, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

The dugout

Ender Echenique says New England Revolution went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Boardroom

New England Revolution close the window on a squad of their own making

11 in and 4 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Squad

A row about effort at New England Revolution

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dániel Gazdag was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Dániel Gazdag sends New England Revolution past DC United

It finished 2‑1, and it was Dániel Gazdag’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to New England Revolution.

The terraces

New England Revolution supporters have found a favourite in Agustín Ojeda

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Agustín Ojeda has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

The dugout

Brooklyn Raines gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

25 Edition

The New England Revolution Chronicle

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

18 days out for Andrew Farrell after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. New England Revolution will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Words at New England Revolution training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dániel Gazdag is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Words exchanged at New England Revolution

Mark Morris and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

When it matters, Ethan Kohler plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

Maki Tall has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Maki Tall has written the date down.

Market

The Brooklyn Raines story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Brooklyn Raines signs something — a contract at New England Revolution or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief