I quite enjoyed this article highlighted by my friend Gilbert. It's by ESPN's Bill Simmons, and talks through the seemingly logical, yet also illogical process that an American goes through to select an EPL team to support. Not sure if the EPL acronym (English Premier League) has made it over to the UK, but the Americans obviously needed a TLA to go alongside those of their other sports: MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL.
The whittling down to the chosen team is somewhat bizarre, as are some of the 'facts' throughout the article, but still it makes for enjoyable reading. Dubious facts include Theo Walcott being dubbed the 'LeBron of the EPL'; but my favourite was Liverpool being 'an English city that everyone compares to Boston' (maybe among people who haven't been to Boston; or Liverpool) and with a 'rivalry with London that mirrors Boston/New York'. Hm. And comparing Mourinho to Bill Belichick is somewhat off-mark.
Bill's (Simmons, no Belichick) glorified view of Liverpool is at odds with that of his compatriot Washington Times reporter. In his short article about Liverpool written while covering the Open, there's a likely more accurate view of the city (and the Adelphi hotel), culminating in this gem: 'a stunningly dirty port town that should be renamed Cesspool'. Among other things, I remember Boston for its incredible cleanliness.
