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...Protestant. When he talks to boys playing football in the street, they ask which team he roots for. Support for the Glasgow teams Rangers or Celtic is a sectarian marker. Most Rangers fans are unionist, and Celtic fans nationalist. Simpson dodges the coded query by saying he supports Liverpool, a team with no such meaning...
...Only a game? Sports fans like to ridicule such phrases."Football is not just a matter of life and death," was how Bill Shankly, legendary coach of the English club Liverpool, once put it. "It's much more important than that." Shankly had a point. Who hasn't mourned their team's loss as if a loved one had died? Who hasn't celebrated a win with an outpouring of jubilation normally reserved for a birth or a marriage? To non-fans, the passion of sports lovers is often unfathomable, because it seems driven by things so trivial...
...band, which formed in 2005, hails from Sunderland, England, and they trade in the same brand of music that was famously pioneered in Liverpool. Of the band’s three members, two are brothers, Peter and David Brewis, who are responsible for most of Field Music’s creative decisions...
Although Field Music’s aims are surely noble, their album is ultimately hard to listen to and rather dull. It provides a scavenger hunt for Beatles fans and not much else. Despite demonstrating promising possibilities for the future, Field Music is still from Sunderland, not Liverpool...
...rentable space per floor will dwarf virtually all of its nearest neighbors. A decade in development and costing more than $570 million, Broadgate Tower and its matched 13-story Bishopsgate building come with all the conveniences, including double-decker elevators and easy access to nearby Liverpool Street Station. This, the biggest such office project in the history of the City - as London's financial center is known - has it all. Everything, that is, except tenants...