Who are you?

 First of all, I just named this post in honour of the famous chant. Anyway...

I co-founded (and now edit) Northern Lights Football, write for its sister site Empower Women's Football and sit on the board which oversees those two and a third site - Northland Soccer Journal.

Tribute should be paid to the local convention and visitor bureau, a wonderful inventive institution who have continuously inspired me on this journey. They coined "North of Normal" for a 2014 promotion campaign and successfully consolidated the outward identity of the four cities (Fargo and West Fargo in North Dakota, Moorhead and Dilworth in Minnesota) in this "metropolitan" area under the now internationally famous/infamous label of Fargo.

I moved to Moorhead in 2015 from England for personal reasons. Prior to that point I'd watched footy/football/soccer in stands or on TV from every viewpoint apart from professional reporter. Due to that Lancastrian heritage, I tend to use all three of those words interchangeably. I never studied Spanish, so the one word you won't see is "futbol". In fact, as my Twitter bio testifies, I prefer the Lakota term tȟabnákȟapapi and its Ojibwe equivalent bapasikawed.

What's a snowligan? It's a term I coined to joke about the use of my Fusion scarf to cover my face, not because of smoke but because it stops my face from freezing.

During the short lifetime of FC Fargo (2014-2016), I was the co-ordinator for the Fargo Green Army supporters group until I became Director of Communications at the club, managing social and broadcast media and the content of the matchday programme.

From 2014 onward, I maintained a blog for the Green Army which went into hibernation when I became a paid club employee and was then reanimated in 2016 as the site you see today.

I have zero remaining affiliation with FC Fargo or its erstwhile ownership, nor with Dakota Fusion FC - although I would love to see a club succeed in this market where the football (and occasionally basketball) teams of North Dakota State University Bison mostly roam.

I don't care where players are from, if they are committed to their game.

To quote Aloe Blacc, it aint where you're from, it's where you're at and who's got your back.