I'm at soccer most of the summer.
"When my brothers were at soccer camp, I stayed home and studied Arabic.
"The parents are at work, the kids are at soccer camp, at summer school, at baseball clinics".
"And," he adds, "I think it speaks volumes about how great Garifuna young men are at soccer".
They often prefer the kind of thinking involved in chess and math, activities at which I am almost as inept as I am at soccer.
"If Zach were tall," Molly says, "he'd probably be, like, three times as good as Jeremy is at soccer, because he's really smart".
Anyone with children is constantly remembering things for them — what time they need to be at soccer practice, where it is, what they need to bring.
Some fans complained they had not been able to afford tickets and would rather be at Soccer City but most would not have chosen to be anywhere else.
"Sometimes I need an answer immediately, because what we work on is often time-sensitive, but my partner is at soccer practice with his daughter and that has created a decent amount of inconvenience".
Man in the middle: Taylor hails Webb as the 'best referee Britain has produced' Jack Taylor, the last Briton to referee the World Cup final, 36 years ago, will be at Soccer City tonight to see Howard Webb take charge.
Both games are at Soccer City, the same giant stadium between Soweto and Johannesburg where Mandela, prisoner 46664, made his first public speech after his release following 27 years as a political prisoner.
