Preface to the US Edition
Carless Hands: Introduction
1. A Game of its Own: America's path to football isolation
2. Tangled Roots: The first American Soccer League
3. Strangers on a Boat: False dawns and hard landings for the national team
4. 'We will become phenomenal': Ambition and folly in the Sixties
5. Moving the Goalposts: Pele and the Cosmos
6. Shootout to the Death: The collapse of the NASL
7. A Foot in the Door: Harsh lessons at Italia 90
8. Revenge of the Commie Pansies: The World Cup comes to America
9. Clash and Burn: MLS: back to square one
10. Momentary Insanity: In and out of love with the women's game
11. Take Me Out to the Soccer-specific Facility: The 2002 World Cup and beyond