Normally known as The Blue Hell for the home colors of its primary tenant Sporting KC of Major League Soccer, on this night it should have been called The Red, White, and Blue Inferno as nationalistic pride in American soccer was on full display.
Now living in Rugby, in the English Midlands, he describes Bethany as a "place of hell", but not as bad as the home of the dysfunctional adoptive parents in County Wicklow he was sent to when he was nearly four.