Sam

… writes technology features for the Financial Times.

His personality was formed in Chelsea (London) and New Jersey, where he watched the New York Cosmos through the salad days of the NASL, playing three-a-sides in the parking lot at Giants Stadium until the Zambone machine cleared the bottles from the empty lot at sunset.

Those were also the high, wide & not-too-handsome days of Toby Charles and Soccer Made in Germany; of Dalglish, Souness, Keegan, Wilkins, Foerster & Rummenigge … of the black bag & the magic sponge.