Wonder what the issue is...his passport was good enough to leave here, be admitted to England and to play but not good enough to travel home.
Curious.
Since he was British, he probably didn't have any issues going home. I'm thinking a visa issue instead of a passport issue, but it could be that the passport is expiring before his anticipated departure date from the US and needs to be renewed.
It’s not unheard of for European countries to just look at the cover of a passport and let you through...at least it happened once upon a time. It happened to me in Germany some years ago.I’d guess that the issue is that it’s expired.
Indeed
If you are a US citizen, you do not need a passport to get back into the country. So this is a mysterious situation.