This is the first of a two-part retrospective on the 2018 season. Part two will run next week.
The 2018 Chicago Fire season could have been one to remember.
They had just come off a third place finish in the Eastern Conference in 2017 and the feeling was the Fire could only improve. If the baseline was third, then surely the Supporters’ Shield would at least be in reach.
The offseason was exciting for almost all the wrong reasons. Nelson Rodriguez was made a league punchline when his wax wings flew too close to the sun.