Author: Matthew Bird

My, isn’t the Itap in Central West End very nice, almost too nice for the likes of me, wearing my USA home golf shirt among the business suits. It’s Friday, 6pm and I feel kind of out of place, until I see Chris Byron walk in with an MLS in STL shirt on. Slowly the…

I am beside myself with excitement and anticipation. We all are, writing this the Thursday evening after the Thursday afternoon. Facebook likes and shares, retweets and favorites abound. We’re in. All in. I reminisce a lot, my history is over the pond. My favorite time watching games were with Stockport County, a league 1 team…

When I was first on the podcast, I was asked a question via Keith Mayfield asking about the differences of supporter culture over there and over here. The question took me by surprise to be honest, I kind of stammered out some rubbish. I wish I had thought more concisely about a decent answer because…