The FC Cincinnati Chronicle
Match17 Mar 2029
The wait goes on for FC Cincinnati
41 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
The terraces19 Mar 2029
The mood at FC Cincinnati has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Player ratings19 Mar 2029
Ender Echenique runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Mar 2029
Sadick Abubakar: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” FC Cincinnati have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match17 Mar 2029
The goals have deserted FC Cincinnati
5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at FC Cincinnati can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad19 Mar 2029
Evander 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 FC Cincinnati this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Mar 2029
Words at FC Cincinnati training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samuel Gidi 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.
Squad19 Mar 2029
5 new faces, and FC Cincinnati are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Match17 Mar 2029
FC Cincinnati draw a blank against Nashville SC
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Nashville SC defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
In brief
- Market FC Cincinnati put Andrew Tarbell up for sale
- Market Josh Bradley leaves for nothing
- Market Tim Tillman leaves for nothing