You could call it, “The Gospel According to Scouse”.

After all, since well before Louisville City FC’s first game in 2015, Mike “Scouse” Bromilow has been one of those spreading the gospel of soccer to the uninitiated, both at Molly Malone’s in the Highlands district of Louisville and in the supporter’s section named after him at Slugger Field, “Scouse’s House.”

“One of the main objections I heard was that soccer was boring just because you might go through a game where there’s only one goal scored,” said Bromilow, a Liverpool native that arrived in Louisville in 1992. “When they actually took the time to sit down with a true supporter to appreciate the game with them, and when they had questions, they could ask a question and someone would answer their questions, that helped out an awful lot.

“Having someone there that’s seen it and played it, or just having somebody there to explain what was going on, from there it just grew and grew and grew.”

Having grown up on the Kop at Anfield, Bromilow witnessed first-hand some of Liverpool’s finest teams with the likes of Phil Thompson, Kenny Dalglish, Alan Hansen, Graeme Souness and Ian Rush leading the way to success in the league and in Europe. But armed with that knowledge, Bromilow’s good humor and unexpectedly brusque previous experiences when trying to learn more about the native sports of his adopted home have meant that whatever the question, there will be no condescension, just simple pointers that can make it easy for new fans to know what they should be watching for.

It’s that attitude that has seen Scouse’s House – which sits behind the opposite goal to the Louisville Coopers in a section adorned with national flags made up of the nationalities of players and fans in the section alike – grow from the small group of ex-patriot fans that attended LouCity’s first game together to a capped group of 250 season ticket holders this season.

“People started to realize that, ‘hey, if I don’t understand the game, I can go to guys at Scouse’s House, ask a question and they’re not going to look down on me, they’re not going to tell me I’m stupid,’” said Bromilow. “We’re going to welcome you in and we’re going to explain the game to you.”

The location Bromilow and his fellow fans currently reside was the idea of the fans themselves, under the principle that a team should never shoot toward a goal that doesn’t have friendly fans behind it for encouragement. Bromilow pointed to examples from England – obviously including the Anfield Road end and the Kop at his beloved Liverpool – that helped the move along, with the group now having been in residence there since the start of the 2017 season.