When Bob Bradley was the Princeton soccer coach, he took a team of college players to Italy, where he met Fabio Capello, the manager of the Italian and European champion A.C. Milan.
“When you make wine,” Capello advised Bradley, “the grapes are not always the same.”
For Bradley, the meaning was not instantly clear.
“The first few times he said that to me, I thought he was actually talking about making wine,” Bradley recalled. “I have thought about it, and I realized he was trying to tell me something about football.”
More than 15 years later, Bradley and Capello will try to blend different quality grapes into a winning 2010 vintage.
I pray for a crushing England victory.
In the words of Mr Hiltz and Mrs Schori, I’m concerned and distressed at the tie.