was born in Chicago and grew up in Wisconsin, but emigrated to the UK in 1987. He has contributed to When Saturday Comes since 1988, a year after he came to England to help Aston Villa win promotion from the Second Division, and two years after coaching his high-school soccer team to a debut season of unbroken defeats.
In addition to Soccer in a Football World, he has written for other WSC books, including The Half-Decent Football Book and Always Next Year (volumes 1 and 4). Several of his articles also feature in the two Power, Corruption and Pies compilations. You
can buy all these from WSC Books.
An interest in German football led him to help start the inconsequential German
football fanzine Elfmeter in 1988, which he produced until 1997. He has also written for the more august Scottish fanzine The Absolute Game and moved to Scotland in 1999 (though
the two facts are not related).
He lives in Kinross-shire, where he has developed an affection for Raith Rovers, and no longer has a beard.
Last update: March 2008.
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