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Nigel has spent more than 20 years in sports broadcasting - specializing in English soccer. His last five years in the UK were with the BBC in Liverpool - where he covered Liverpool and Everton in the EPL - which featured Liverpool's historic triple-winning season in 2001.

Before joining the BBC, Nigel worked in Lancashire, covering Blackburn Rovers' Premiership winning season under the legendary Kenny Dalglish in 1995. Nigel also worked in Sheffield in the 80's - a city dominated by two of the oldest clubs in England - Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday.

Nigel is an experienced host and reporter, who firmly believes professional soccer can find a loyal market in Toronto. He's also a huge golf fan - has covered three (British) Open Championships, and got to interview his own sporting hero - Jack Nicklaus - at the Open in 1991. 

Bob is a former pro soccer player who starred with several different teams during his nine seaons in the North American Soccer League.
Iarusci started his NASL career in 1976 with the Toronto Metros-Croatia, and then played for Toronto again for part of the 1977 season. He played for the New York Cosmos for part of 1977 and all of '78, for the Washington Diplomats in 1979 and '80, the Cosmos again from 1981 to '83 and the San Diego Sockers in 1984.
Iarusci won NASL championships with Toronto in 1976, a season in which he played every one of the Metros-Croatia games, and New York in 1978. He was an NASL runner-up with New York in 1981, and a member of the Cosmos squad in
the championship season of 1977. He was chosen as an NASL North American all-star in 1979, '80, '81 and '83, and an honorable mention NASL all-star in 1981.
During his NASL career, Iarusci played 217 NASL regular-season games and 22 NASL playoff games.