Bill Connelly spent five days in England to search for the heart of English soccer, compare football crowds to futbol crowds, and figure out why everybody was telling him not to rent a car.
I. Nerd out
To me, nerd is a trait, a tendency. When you find something you enjoy, you want to inhale all of it at once. You go through phases, obsessions. I went through a lengthy Beatles phase in high school, followed by a Hendrix phase, a Dylan phase, another Dylan phase, etc. I went through a...