Friday, April 26th, 1:45 p.m. ET



The Revolution are running a few minutes late. It’s been a season full of wrong turns for New England, and their bus driver has made one of his own on the ride from Gillette Stadium to the airport in Providence. The goof puts the first team a few minutes behind the club’s U-15, U-17 and U-19 academy sides, all of which have already filed off their buses, stepped onto a remote corner of the tarmac and boarded a Kraft Group 767 jet—Patriots branding on the outside, a mix of permanent Pats logos and Velcroed-on Revs crests on the inside—ahead of a set of weekend contests in Kansas City.



As they’ve done for the last couple years, the Revs invited several journalists on this private round-trip flight, one of just four allowed for the first-team during the MLS regular season. Tagging along with players and staff on Friday, before they retreat behind closed doors on Saturday to prepare for their date with SKC,...