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First team players are regularly involved in those engagement activities though, as a browse through MITC content would demonstrate. Leaving aside the fact that it's not actually a footballer's contractual obligation to grow the fanbase - that's commercial/marketing behind the scenes - the idea that they're not doing their bit is nonsense.

I always thought Reece Hands should have been a goalkeeper with a name like that!

Can’t say I’m not disappointed with the club’s lack of a response to my complaint about this. I’ve not spoken to my mate since the weekend, but to my knowledge he’s not heard anything from the club beyond his refund, which I assume he received. And given that the complaint came from myself, neither have I since the admin boy, Alistair told me he had passed on my complaint to the General Manager. I don’t think that just giving a refund with no explanation or apology to my pal, or reassurance to me that an investigation is taking place is enough, to be honest. I was prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt for not replying immediately because everyone inside the club would have been busy in the lead up to the Hearts game, but hearing nothing two weeks after making a valid complaint, and a week and a half after the big event that consumed their focus is poor.

Three ways, in ascending order of importance: 1) I've been a net taxpayer the whole time 2) I didn't immediately petition to bring over my entire family the second I got citizenship, as so many do 3) Above all, I reject the hyphen. If there was such a thing as a Scottish-American lobbying organization - to get us special treatment in government contracts or visas or whatever else - I would not only refuse to join it but I'd oppose it. Most immigrant groups to the US (and this is quite rational of them, to be clear) instead organize and create ethnic networks that serve their communities. Very rational, very ambitious. But I oppose it. America's best times have come after it's bullied (for example) The Irish and the Germans into becoming Americans, and the current style of fetishizing diversity does the opposite of this. It precludes assimilation. So while I think the recent immigrants who make a virtue of their difference are not doing anything evil, I oppose it, and I oppose their presence as they do it. I'll add one more minor one. I can't lie and say my heart exactly bleeds here - this isn't what gets me out of bed in the morning. But it's a fact that the Central American migration routes are horrendous. And a lot of the people who make it across are not well-served by being here. There are children here from Mexico and Guatemala who don't speak *Spanish*, much less English. They're at the mercy of uncles and "uncles" and God knows who else. And the US permits this not out of love for people but love of cheap labor. I give the Biden economy credit where it's due - it's increased wages for the lowest earners. Yet the country responds by importing an alien servant class to depress wages. It's wrong on all sides and while I oppose it from a place of scarcity rather than love, I think my opposition still counts. These kids should be in their villages and not our kitchens.