About Barroldinho

Barry is a man who likes Association Football and fancies himself a bit of a wordsmith.

Though passionate about the beautiful game, he has no ability in it whatsoever.  Perhaps that makes him ill qualified to write about it.  But then if that was the case, how do you explain BBC and Sky’s teams of analysts over the last two decades?

As a lifelong Man United fan (he knows who Remi Moses is) and Los Angeles Galaxy supporter since moving to SoCal in January of 2007, his meanderings tend to lead him towards their leagues and continental tournaments, as well as the English and US national teams.

On occasion he may also mention his hometown club, Great Yarmouth Town FC. The Bloaters, if you will, who play somewhere around the 10th tier of English football.

To date, he has been recognized as Barroldinho in public on one occasion.  Technically a current member of the LA Galaxy Supporters Group “The LA Riot Squad”, he’s too socially awkward to introduce himself at games and tailgates, so most of them probably don’t know who he is, beyond being the pasty guy with the English accent, who can go from timid to profanity in the space of a Jorgen Skjelvik back-pass.

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