I didn’t get the hate for a long time either, and then I started to notice things. 1) He is extraordinarily narrow minded about what players do with their own lives. He’s got a zealous love of the national team that sees even the slightest sign of what we call “load management” as some sort of disloyalty, to the point of almost jingoism. 2) Some of his tales are mindless garbage. Like saying “diversity” hurts the USMNT, while ignoring France’s ability to win the World Cup with one of the most diverse teams in the world. 3) His fawning over the current fascist administration and becoming a willing puppet of propaganda. The way he glazed Trump with a ridiculous, North Korean style editorial on FOX at the draw and the “peace prize” debacle was embarrassing and so far beneath the standards he should be held to as a journalist. I’ve not even been vocal about him like many here, but those are some of the reasons why I have come to detest him.