Joe Cole on following in the footsteps of Rodney Marsh in Florida: ‘I thought I was finished but I feel alive in Tampa’. There used to be a joke around Tampa Bay that St Petersburg was where old people went to die. ‘God’s waiting room,’ they called the city. But for Joe Cole, now a football veteran, joining Tampa Bay Rowdies has given him a new lease of life again and gotten his playing career back on track.