As losing continues, Fire's words ring hollow

After their dreary 1-0 loss at Soldier Field to the last-place New England Revolution, Fire coach Frank Klopas and captain Xherdan Shaqiri said the right things. “The only thing I can say is that when you go through difficult moments, the important thing with the team is we need to stick together, we need to believe,” Klopas said. Unfortunately for the Fire (2-5-4, 10 points), it's a message coaches and players have been selling to the media and their fans for most of the last decade. Instead of changing course after last year's 13th-place finish in the Eastern Conference, owner Joe Mansueto and the Fire effectively ran it back with their leadership.