This contribution by Rory McLean. He is a historian and soccer writer based in "middle
America." He is the co-writer of Steven Cohen's Not Blowing Smoke, a collection of biographical
short-stories available for the Amazon Kindle.
Processing the Stars & Stripes in 1934...
The taste of a sour Gold Cup finale is still puckers the lips of the US soccer fan.
Prompting me out of months and months of blogging hibernation is the issue in football that bothers
me, disappoints me far more than any loss ever can. I'm no brilliant writer and someone else who is
would be much better at conveying the ideas that I so strongly feel but struggle to put into words,
yet I have to take a stab at this anyway because things have gone too far and I just have to put
this out there.
