I'm at the beach and I am reading Jamie Trecker's "Love & Blood - At The World Cup with the Footballers, Fans, and Freaks".
What is it that makes Americans that come later in life to our beloved sport think that they can write a book? Like Joe McGuiness, this guy knows shit. And though he works for Fox covering world football, that only tells me that he gets paid for knowing shit about football.
In the first couple chapters he has already stated that:
1. Juventus' owners like Newcastle United's shirts so much that they abandoned the original pink. ------ Wrong Club AND wrong reason for the switch.
2. Unfortuante Ecudorian referee Byron Moreno was so abused by the Italian press he decided to simply quit. ------- Wrong again. After fixing the 2002 World Cup of Italy v. Korea, he went back home and fixed an Ecuador league match and was banned by FIFA.
3. And here is my favorite - leading up to the 2006 Cup, Italy was rocked by a corruption scandal that saw Juventus demoted one league and AC Milan stripped of its last two Scudetti.
Just do alittle fucking research before you think you can write about anything, Jackass.