“Certainly when you talk about the United States in a bigger way, one of the beautiful things about our country is the ability for people from all over the world to come here and live and work and, insome ways, make new lives for themselves. And that’s something that I’m personally very proud of, so when it means in a footballing sense that every now and then we play with a few lessfans, we deal with it.”

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