The Charlotte Football Club Sentinel
The terraces21 May 2035
Supporters organise against the Charlotte Football Club board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Match21 May 2035
Every point is an argument now for Charlotte Football Club
Position 14 and 7 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad21 May 2035
7 saves: Chituru Odunze was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match19 May 2035
5 matches without a win for Charlotte Football Club
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Charlotte Football Club are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 May 2035
Tempers go at Charlotte Football Club
Christian Olivares was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match19 May 2035
New York City take the points off Charlotte Football Club
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad21 May 2035
A row about effort at Charlotte Football Club
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rui Modesto was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 May 2035
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Interim Coach to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout21 May 2035
The manager makes an example of Santiago Pereyra
“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
- The dugout Kaiden Moore knocks on the manager's door
- Looking ahead William Lodmell faces his old club
- Squad Jack Johnson, 18, gets his chance