![]() He spent more than a month in Chicago and this would be a life changing moment. These were things the ordinary American teen lived on.īut then he became friends with an American teenager who invited him to visit him in Chicago. He would then move on to embrace the likes of Tracy Chapman, Rolling Stone, Run-DMC, John Hughes films and the NFL. He was first introduced to the culture through “The Love Boat” which he says was his gateway drug. He always felt that his dull gray world became more colorful whenever he embraced popular American culture. He dreamed of the United States with its beautiful women, sun kissed skies and MacDonald’s eating children with upturned collars. Needless to say, he was not a very popular kid in his school or in the neighborhood.īut there was always that one ideal and idea that always burned in the teenager’s heart. He was Jewish kid that went to private school and lived in a working class and very catholic city. ![]() Growing up as a teenager in Liverpool, Roger Bennett always felt like an outsider. He published Reborn in the USA, his debut memoir in 2021. Even though it has been several years since he moved to the United States, his enthusiasm for the US and its homegrown sports has not yet faded. He is now part of the Men in Blazer crew that provides one of the most entertaining and wildly informative podcasts about soccer. He would eventually move to the United States and take up American citizenship. While he was born in Britain, he fell in love with the Chicago Bears and the NFL after he spent some time in Chicago in 1985. ![]() During this time, he spent a lot of time consuming the “Beastie Boys,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Miami Vice.” As such, he always spent much of his time looking for hope and inspiration from across the Atlantic in the US. He spent his teen years living in what was a decaying industrial city and went to a strict private school. The author was born and brought up in Liverpool in the United Kingdom, even though he was never quite as fascinated with the UK as she was with the United States. Roger Bennett is one half of the Men in Blazers duo who has been a long time soccer and culture commentator.
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