Walker Brooks

Central Defender - New England Revolution
14 Oct 2046
Sunday
Process

Marked for Walker Brooks

1047 Edition

The New England Revolution Chronicle

20 Aug 2046
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to New England Revolution's wait for a win

16 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at New England Revolution has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Walker Brooks: 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.” New England Revolution have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

New England Revolution leaking at the back

5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Squad

Giovanni D'Agostino 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for New England Revolution against New York City

1‑3 to New York City, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Costly mistake from Jacopo Montagna

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Jacopo Montagna knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

In brief

Back issues
1033 Edition

The New England Revolution Chronicle

14 May 2046
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrew Johnson

31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. New England Revolution lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

New England Revolution leaking at the back

5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Squad

Giovanni D'Agostino falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Noah Widmer’s goal not enough for New England Revolution

Noah Widmer scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Orlando City, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Player ratings

Paul Pulisic runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Walker Brooks signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Walker Brooks commits to New England Revolution for another 4 years.

Squad

No hiding place for Walker Brooks

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Walker Brooks, and the manager let it.

Market

Justin Brooks is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at New England Revolution has been clear about where Justin Brooks stands, which is more than many ever get.

Market

The shop window has Jack Pepi in it

New England Revolution have let the market know Jack Pepi can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

978 Edition

The New England Revolution Chronicle

24 Apr 2045
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Anger at New England Revolution spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad

Words at New England Revolution training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giovanni D'Agostino 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

No hiding place for Walker Brooks

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Walker Brooks, and the manager let it.

In brief