City SC Posse Posts

St. Louis CITY walked out of Kansas City with a 1-1 draw, which is technically useful and emotionally disgusting. The unbeaten streak lives, the road trip goal of four points from San Jose and Kansas City was achieved, and everyone can update the st…

City SC Posse was supposed to have a midweek episode this week, but apparently the soccer gods saw Marcel Hartel leave town and decided Kev’s electricity should leave too. We had a plan. A real plan. Kev and I were going to record Tuesday night aft…

Marcel Hartel leaving St. Louis CITY SC hurts. Marcel Hartel leaving for less than €1 million makes me stare directly into the middle distance like I just watched someone drop a full beer at CITYPark. According to the Sky Sport DE / Florian Pletten…

St. Louis CITY SC drew Real Salt Lake 1-1 on Saturday night, which is fine, but also the exact kind of “fine” that makes you stare at the scoreboard like it owes you money. A point against a team near the top of the Western Conference is not a disas…

St. Louis CITY SC won the game, took the three points, climbed to 7th place, and still somehow made being up a man for 78 minutes feel like assembling IKEA furniture without the little wrench. This was not a beautiful game. This was not champagne so…

St. Louis CITY SC is officially no longer playing dead. A few weeks ago, this team was sitting in 14th place, staring up at the Western Conference like a raccoon trapped in a dumpster. Now? After a 3-1 road win over LA Galaxy, CITY is in 8th place, …

The first blog was supposed to be the whole story. A St. Louis CITY fan wears his CITY kit to Wrexham, eats fish and chips at The Fat Boar, visits the Racecourse, spends too much money in the Club Shop, grabs Wrexham Lager at The Turf, chats with We…

Wearing a St. Louis CITY kit through Wrexham felt like bringing a little piece of home into one of the strangest and most successful football stories in the world. I had followed Wrexham through the documentary, the celebrity ownership, and the ab…

Unbeaten, Unsatisfied, and Mildly Twitching: St. Louis CITY SC went to D.C. on Saturday night with a chance to do something they have not done in a long time: win three MLS matches in a row and make us all act irresponsibly hopeful. After the road w…

Pregame Hope, Please Keep Hands Inside the Ride: St. Louis CITY SC heads to Washington, D.C. on Saturday with something we have not been able to say much this season: momentum. Real momentum. Not “we played okay for 28 minutes and then emotionally e…

Post-Match Optimism, Please Use Responsibly: St. Louis CITY SC beat LAFC 2-1 on Wednesday night, and I am not saying I have emotionally healed from the last several months of soccer-related nonsense. But I am saying this: back-to-back MLS wins, a fi…

Road Win Therapy, Now Available in Limited Quantities: St. Louis CITY SC went to Colorado on Saturday night and won 1-0, which is a sentence that feels weird to type without immediately checking for a typo. It was the first away win for CITY in MLS …

Pregame Apathy, Now With Altitude: St. Louis CITY SC plays Colorado tonight, and yes, on paper, this is a winnable game. Colorado is sitting around 9th in the West, which means they are not exactly an unstoppable soccer death machine. They are not t…

Monday Morning Apathy Has Entered the Chat: St. Louis CITY SC went to Austin on Sunday afternoon for what was supposed to be one of those “beatable opponent” games and lost 2-0, because apparently the word “beatable” was being used in the self-refle…

Survive and Advance, Baby: St. Louis CITY SC went to Chicago for the U.S. Open Cup Round of 16 and somehow came back with a 2-1 win, which feels both encouraging and deeply confusing, like finding a twenty-dollar bill in pants you were about t…

The Turning Point That Wasn’t: For about three magical minutes on Saturday night, CITYPARK felt like it was about to shake loose from the earth and launch itself directly into the Mississippi. St. Louis CITY SC had just flipped the match on San Jose…

Well, That Was a Public Beating: St. Louis City SC went into Seattle needing a real road performance and instead delivered the soccer version of getting stuffed into a locker in front of the whole class. The final score is going to say 4-1, which is…

Business Handled… But Let’s Not Throw a Parade: CITY took care of business with a clean, no-drama 4-0 win over FC Tulsa and punched a ticket to the Round of 16. Exactly what should happen when an MLS team hosts a USL side. No nonsense, no embarrassm…

Another Road Draw, Another Mixed Bag, Another Night of “Almost:” St. Louis City SC walks out of Dallas with a 1-1 draw, and honestly, that feels about right. Not a robbery. Not a collapse. Not exactly a statement either. Just another night where Cit…

Late Drama Saves a Flat Night… But the Problems Are Still There: As I’m writing this in real time, deep into stoppage time in New York City, this felt like another long, frustrating night for St. Louis. For 90+ minutes, this match followed a very fa…

This is exactly the kind of win that resets everything… or at least gives you permission to believe again for a few days. Saturday night at Energizer Park, City SC finally remembered how to score goals, and not just one of those “he…

St. Louis City SC fans are running out of patience, and honestly, it’s hard to blame them. We’re writing this in the dying minutes of the match and the story has already been written. City is about to drop another one, and unless something miraculou…

First things first, a quick thank you to everyone who has been listening to City SC Posse these first few weeks. We’re only a handful of episodes in and already seeing people tuning in, sending messages, and even chirping us a bit online. That’s par…

There are losses. There are bad losses. And then there’s whatever that was. St. Louis City SC went west for Sunday Night Soccer and immediately decided to test a bold new defensive strategy called “let them score early and see what happens.” Spo…