My Career As A Soccer Nerd.
Life as a football fan started in my childhood in the Riverside stand at Ewood Park, as a fan of Blackburn Rovers in Division Three. I live now in California, where I enjoy games in the temperate San Francisco bay area, and I especially appreciate that I no longer have to wear two pairs of gloves and three pairs of socks to survive a football match without frostbite.
On my arrival stateside in the 1990s, I freely admit that I squandered a decade of football fandom when my head was turned by the novelty of baseball and its compelling statistics.