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Category: Bird Is the Word

  • 5 lads from Saint Louis.

    5 lads from Saint Louis.

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    Matthew Bird
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    I get it. The irony isn’t lost on me. I’m English, the England team are about to play another CONCACAF minnow in Belo Horizonte. The story of 1950 and the USA’s unlikely win against England is well known, but is only half known. It should be as famous as the Lisbon Lions. However, outside my…

  • Qatar 2022

    Qatar 2022

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    Matthew Bird
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    Let me for a minute, take my American cap off, and don my citizen of the world cap instead for just a moment and play some devils advocate. Qatar…. the world cup, man, you guys are pissed! the world cup is actually happening there, even though Sepp Blatter came out on Swiss TV this week…

  • Friday Night Lights

    Friday Night Lights

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    Matthew Bird
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    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…