A quick note on the Harkes affair

Developments in the past few days have shed some long-awaited light on why the American team were knocked out in the first round of their 1998 World Cup campaign. It turns out their mediocre performance wasn't so much to do with shortcomings on-field: in a recent interview more than a decade after the fact, it has been revealed the then US captain John Harkes was dropped from the team two months before the Cup for having an affair with the wife of a teammate. For it to have happened in the first place, and then for it to have taken so long to come out given the impact it obviously had, one has to question what this says about the American football program in general...

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