"US soccer has been a fascinating work in progress ever since 1967"

Not content with praising Rock N Roll Soccer to the rafters, the estimable football literature web site Of Pitch & Page has published an interview with the author, allowing me to pontificate at great length. 

Tulsa roughneck takes aim at my NASL
 softspot: the Minnesota Kicks (pic: Alan
Merrick private archive).

Authors of course love to talk about their books, but we tend to drone on and become tedious very quickly. That's why I like doing email interviews - you have time to consider both the questions and your own answers. And on a web site, they usually print everything you write because they have the space.

Along with the quote above, here's a teaser to lure you into reading more...

Do you have a favourite NASL team? You do a good job of seeming impartial!

I ended up with a particular soft spot for the Minnesota Kicks – partly because of their incredible rise-and-fall story that I wrote about in Chapter Five, and partly because many of their ex-players were so helpful. When you’re a writer working on a miserly budget you become really grateful towards people who get what you’re doing, and who go out of their way to assist you for no return.