You have to feel for him. Bobby Shuttleworth lost his starting job these last few games through no fault of his own.
Despite the Chicago Fire’s poor record, Shuttleworth has been good this season—at times really good. But with the team out of the playoff picture, Raphael Wicky has rightfully moved on to Shuttleworth’s heir apparent, 17-year-old Gabriel Slonina.
“Look, we had a brief conversation and I explained to him my thoughts and that we want to give Gaga (Slonina) a few games,” Wicky explained. “And then we also told him it’s not because of a bad performance, he’s had a good year for us and we know what we have with him, but we want to see how the young kid does.