"I’m a senior advisor of rural development in the US Department of Agriculture. I became a fan of the Premier League more recently. When Colin Kaepernick kneeled and protested, I thought it was a very good thing. You think about Muhammad Ali and Tommie Smith and John Carlos in 1968, it’s something very near and dear to my heart. So when he was cut, I assumed he would get back into the league, and I said I wasn’t going to watch football until he gets back - not thinking it would be a lifetime. So in the fall, when I would normally be watching football, my weekends became kind of free. In December 2017, I went to visit my uncle in Nigeria, and there, soccer is huge. Where he lives, it’s either you’re an Arsenal fan or a Chelsea fan. So I was watching with him during Christmas, when so many games are on, and I saw Spurs with Dele Alli - a man with a Nigerian name. I didn’t want to be a bandwagon team, and I thought Spurs would be a great team to follow. I just got more and more into i...