Liverpool? Didn't they used to be good years ago? Back in the day before the likes of Baddiel found footy.
They were alright about 11 years ago for a few hours, but that's about it. On the article, it's not that bad. Good bit of complimentary stuff. Though they say we're in Humberside. **** off, lads.
Quite flattering really... In 2017 Hull finds itself European City of Culture. This is the sort of thing absolute whoppers decide to laugh at immediately without pondering how and why the city’s bid won. What are they doing in Hull that meant it was made City of Culture? What has been going on here? And it is always worth pointing out that in the run up to 2008 much of England decided to laugh its head off at Liverpool being European City of Culture. The south barely had a nose that hadn’t been looked down because, well, that’s the way things were. And too often still are. Either ends of the M62 these two port cities are off to one side, but whereas Liverpool’s “Scouse not English” perception has a place in the national consciousness, albeit one which elicits strong feelings one way or another, Hull is instead simply mocked and presumed to be little more than a wasteland; not truly Yorkshire, not Leeds or Sheffield or Bradford. A dump, a city which people pass through, a cultural wasteland. As ever this is nonsense. Hull won city of culture because Hull has big ambitions. People live in Hull, people with warmth and humour and brains. People who want to tell stories, people who want to put on shows, people who want to play music and listen to ideas. People who want to watch football. We like those people. We love those people. They are our people.
Zahavi was one of the players I would've recommended, he's far too good to be playing in Israel. He's also out of contract.
I think this is a really good piece and I agree with the aims of the season - **** resting players all season to try and finish 4th from bottom, lets try and win a cup.
Unless the guy is being extra clever in that he's meant to be the manager and most managers don't come from the place they're managing in. So they would make cock ups like saying 'European COC' and 'Humberside'? Or summat.
The name "Humberside" was very rarely used, as an informal name and a geographical term, for the area surrounding the Humber before the creation of the county.[5] However, by the mid-20th century the industrial development of both sides of the Humber Estuary was becoming increasingly integrated, and "Humberside" was being widely applied to the ports of Hull, Grimsby and Goole and their hinterland.[6] The use of the term to unify the two sides of the river was also driven by the desire of the local authorities in the area to promote the construction of a suspension bridge.[7] Unlike "Merseyside", which was used colloquially, "Humberside" was adopted as an official term in 1964, when the planning region of Yorkshire and The Humber was created. It consisted of the East and West Ridings of Yorkshire and Parts of Lindsey from Lincolnshire.[8] From that time onwards "Humberside" was actively used to market the area.[9] In 1971 the newly launched local BBC radio station was named Radio Humberside, but since the abolition of the county the broadcasters have referred to people of East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.
Well done, you know how to copy and paste. You might want to read that whole wiki page rather than just picking and choosing pieces. You'll see how **** an idea it was and why it no longer exists. Humberside hasn't existed since 1996. FACT.
The whole county thing was a **** up and as a consequence it's now an unpopular term. Just as the regularly used Tigers nickname has been hijacked and is becoming unpopular with fans of Hull City AFC.
LOL It's so typical of this forum that we immediately seize on two "errors" in an otherwise well written and researched and complimentary article. Do we all really have such big patties on our shoulders that we can't let someone from Liverpool confuse the European CoC (which Liverpool was) and the UK CoC or that he referred to Humberside when he's from a place that wears the term Merseyside with pride?
Not all over there like Merseyside, those that do tend to prefer it because it's not Lancashire and run by the Mancs.
I think it helps with their identity. Dont know about anyone else but when I think of Lancashire I always think of Greater Manchester and Liverpool never comes into it.
