Hello, I'm Spike. Welcome to the Times Yours podcast, a very special timeshirus podcast,

as it is the first one ever where the subject is the Philadelphia Union, and my guest is

Scott Kessler from the brotherly game. How are you, sir?

Other than having suffered a mild concussion, Tuesday morning, I'm good.

How did you, before we get going, how did you suffer a concussion?

I unfortunately can't attribute it to a sport, more of the legs on one of my chairs at

school snack, hit my head into like, quarter of my bed. I think I wasn't bleeding here

anything. That's like an embarrassing way to get a concussion. That's not a cool

concussion to get. Well, then I'll take into consideration everything you say, the fact

that you do have a mild concussion. Hey, maybe you can help me with something before

we get going. When I was at YSP and we did stuff with, we did union stuff, I was told

that you're not supposed to put the word the in front of union, like you're supposed

to treat it, I guess, as a singular. Are you aware of who told you that?

I think it came through the team and then Gordon was explaining to me.

You know, Gordon, Gordon was explaining to me. That's an English thing to do. If you

read English sports journalism, it's Manchester United, not V Manchester United, or it's

Real Madrid, Barcelona, Roma, Inter, they're not V, Inter Milan, it's Inter Milan. In the

United States though, it's not Philadelphia Eagles, it's V Philadelphia Eagles.

Even when the team is a singular name like Miami Heat, it's still V Miami Heat. It's

not, you don't change it when it's singular or plural, I guess.

C Miami Heat, R, not V Miami Heat, it is.

Yeah, correct.

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