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Pork Chops On The Left [Remembering America]
About
Witness the thrills, spills and very-close encounters of our narrator (Custer), as he charts the progress of a testosterone-fuelled, amateur 'soccer' team from Dublin (of which he is a guest-member), on a two-week rampage / pilgrimage to the East Coast, USA in September, 1982.
The author takes us from the mean streets and urban decay of New York City, to the soccer fields and halls of academia in some of the most learned establishments across New England; from precarious encounters with law enforcement and suspected paramilitaries, through to amorous trysts with the opposite sex; not to mention some hair-raising incidents in the shark-patrolled waters of Cape Cod, and to the crisis that threatened the entire venture.
In an incident-filled journey played out across New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, we encounter a remarkable cast of characters in this scandalous, dangerous and often quite risqué voyage of discovery, from an era when ‘soccer’ was young in America.
The narrative includes accounts of the clashes between the author’s soccer team and the University of New Haven, Western Connecticut State University, Central Connecticut State College [as it was known then], Connecticut College, and Providence College, in the fall of 1982.
The adventure was facilitated by means of a tour; a number of pre-arranged exhibition games against selected colleges and universities in the heartland of New England. The first week: the games. The second week: rest and, eh, 'recuperation' - on Cape Cod and Martha ’s Vineyard.
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