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Men in Hoodies: YNWA Edition
A respite from politics this week as Tom Hall and I discuss Liverpool.
This blog is usually a relentless dive into the politics of our current national nightmare. So for a change of pace, this week I wanted to turn to something a bit more enjoyable.
Last weekend, the Liverpool Football Club won its second Premier League title in the last six years, marking its 20th championship title in top flight of English soccer, and making it the country’s winningest side ever, tied with some other club from the north whose name escapes me. It was a glorious and unexpected triumph for many many reasons, which we will explore shortly.
The celebration of that victory saw some 1.5 million people throng the streets of Merseyside last Monday, the biggest parade in English history, if you can believe that. (And England is fucking olde.) Tragically, the event was marred by a terrible vehicular incident that injured 79 people, including four children, many of them requiring hospitalization. It was a tragedy of a sort that seems to have dogged the club’s recent history, from Heysel and Hillsborough to now. But no one said it better than David Moyes, the Everton manager, who with tremendous class, posted his support for the Blues’ crosstown archrival. “One of the things that makes this city special is the solidarity between the people, who always come together in…
