Living the Dream

From chasing butterflies to Highbury on New Year’s Day, Preston Golson traces a fan’s pilgrimage that turns into a player’s rebirth. In episode 11 of the Love Soccer Podcast, Jonathan Janik speaks with Preston, who relives 2 a.m. World Cup watch parties, the birth of American Outlaws, and the orange-soaked streets of Amsterdam—soccer as community, ritual, and thunderbolt. As an Arsenal diehard—eight matches deep, supporters’ pubs across the map—he calls it what it feels like: living the dream.