”Bill McGuire took the aisle and I sat next to him during the first half of Sunday’s soccer tilt between United and the vistors from Kansas City. He gave me a scarf celebrating United, and there were puzzled looks within his group when I said in all candor:

”‘My No. 1 complaint about soccer is men wearing scarves.’

”Which is true. I don’t think it’s manly to wear a scarf other than when shoveling snow, but that’s just me, and I have some peculiarities.”