It is the biathlon of the soccer world. Let's combine two completely random things together and call it an event.
I mean, I’m not a huge fan of the pan-North American World Cup but at least it makes some kind of sense
Oh, it is brilliant. Were I a federation anywhere in 2,000 miles of the oil sheikhs, I'd be making a pitch. Alternatively, I would also try to make the worst team-up imaginable just for giggles. The I-Cup would be memorable: Israel-Iraq-Iran joint hosts.
I knew nothing about soccer at the time, not in any real sense, and was telling a friend of mine from Dublin, Ireland "hey, we only lost 2-1" because I was thinking "that is just one goal, we almost pulled it out". I just didn't understand at the time how bad that score was and my friend told me. I still didn't believe him, not till much later.
It doesn't help when the captain is screwing the wife of the best player, forcing the coach to drop the captain right before the Cup. John Harkes is a gargantuan asshole.
It did, John Terry slept with the partner of Wayne Bridge. Who also happened to be his wife’s best friend.
Similarly, although John Terry cheated on his wife with a model Wayne Bridge has just broken up with a short time earlier. Harkes was screwing Wynalda's wife with Wynalda's young child still in the house. Steve Sampson dropped Harkes from the team without revealing the affair and Harkes had the nerve to criticize Sampson in his autobiography afterwards.