While he swanned about in spectacles with lilac lenses, the rest of us supporters were using ones with a rosier hue.
His brother, writing for nationalclubgolfer.com, also referred to US supporters as "cretins" and "fat, stupid, greedy, classless, bastards".
But now NBC has said it is going to end "tape delay", meaning that US supporters will be able to watch live.
Wales's petition, which calls on the home secretary, Theresa May, to revoke her permission to extradite O'Dwyer, has picked up more than 75,000 signatures in the last 24 hours alone after being circulated among US supporters of Change.org.org
Of course we don't speak with one voice – our opinions and experiences vary – but since I've been going to World Cups, France 1998, Fifa has been held in the lowest possible regard by almost all of us supporters.
"This is going to happen whatever us supporters think about it.
Outside the stadium in Salvador, Brazil, Belgian and US supporters spoke about their nerves, joy - and heartbreak.
For us supporters sport is often the easiest way into national pride - a simplification of those myriad versions of identity, a unification around a single idea and occasion.
