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The Sporting Kansas City Post

28 May 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings28 May 2035

Taylor Booth ran the middle of the pitch — 6.93

He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 17 combined actions and a mark of 6.93, and not one of them will make a highlights package.

Match26 May 2035

No end in sight to Sporting Kansas City's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Sporting Kansas City has to find a result from somewhere.

Match26 May 2035

The goals have deserted Sporting Kansas City

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Sporting Kansas City can tell you which week it ends in.

The dugout28 May 2035

Matko Miljevic 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.

Squad28 May 2035

A falling-out at Sporting Kansas City

Matteo Correia and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout28 May 2035

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Interim Coach was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Sporting Kansas City dressing room was either.

The dugout28 May 2035

No place in the plan for Matt Edwards

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

Player ratings28 May 2035

Seymour Reid runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match26 May 2035

Point won or two lost for Sporting Kansas City?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against St. Louis CITY SC? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

In brief

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The Sporting Kansas City Post

9 Apr 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Match4 Apr 2035

Sporting Kansas City march on in the cup

New England Revolution are out and Sporting Kansas City go through, 3‑2 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Match7 Apr 2035

Sporting Kansas City taken apart

1‑4 to Austin FC, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Match4 Apr 2035

David Wright wins it after the whistle should have gone

92 minutes played. David Wright found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and New England Revolution went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Player ratings9 Apr 2035

A brace, and David Wright takes the afternoon — 8.71

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. David Wright provided it, and the 8.71 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market9 Apr 2035

Brian Schwake puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Sporting Kansas City, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom9 Apr 2035

Sporting Kansas City still without a manager

39 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.

Boardroom9 Apr 2035

The numbers do not look good at Sporting Kansas City

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Transfer targets9 Apr 2035

Columbus Crew tell Sporting Kansas City: Gio Steffen is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout9 Apr 2035

Ryan Andrews 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

430 Edition

The Sporting Kansas City Post

23 Oct 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match18 Oct 2034

Sporting Kansas City go through

3‑3 on the night and the tie is theirs. Somebody else’s season ended in the same ninety minutes, which the celebrations at Sporting Kansas City are entitled to ignore.

Squad23 Oct 2034

Brian Schwake decides it from twelve yards

2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Market23 Oct 2034

Neil Pierre has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sporting Kansas City they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad23 Oct 2034

A falling-out at Sporting Kansas City

John Pulskamp and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad23 Oct 2034

Words at Sporting Kansas City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Máximo Carrizo 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.

Market23 Oct 2034

No place for Constantine Edlund in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Constantine Edlund has his answer from Sporting Kansas City; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Player ratings23 Oct 2034

One of those days for Diego Arce

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.11, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings23 Oct 2034

Jack Whittaker was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.05. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Match18 Oct 2034

Late, late show earns Sporting Kansas City a point

Minute 116, against Colorado Rapids, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

In brief