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Finn McCool's Football Club - Book
Finn McCool's Football Club - The Birth, Death and Resurrection of a Pub Soccer Team in the City of the Dead is a book about being a soccer fan in the USA.
Although it is also a tale about Hurricane Katrina and life in New Orleans, the storm does not hit the city until halfway through the book. Up until then the story focuses on an Irish bar called Finn McCool's in the Mid-City district: the center of the soccer world in the Crescent City and where both locals and ex-pats gather to watch matches, sometimes as early as 6am.
There is a wide-range of ghost-written autobiographies featuring American soccer players and coaches, but none of them deal with what it is like to be a fan of "the beautiful game" in this country. I examine the hoops fans will jump through to watch games, what it's like to be gathered together in a dark bar with fellow fans on a Saturday morning when it's 90 degrees outside, and how tape-delayed showings mean you have to go to extraordinary lengths just to avoid the score.