Introducing Liverpool
Dogged, determined and for many decades down-at-heel, Liverpool just refused to go down. When unfancied Liverpool FC overcame a 3–0 half-time deficit to win the 2005 European Champions’ League final, it transcended the much narrower boundaries of football and was quickly adopted by this passionate, football-mad city as the latest – and most poetic – expression of Scouse defiance in the face of all the odds.
Most people are familiar with the concept of home-town pride, but in Liverpool they’re just that little bit more in love with the city. They’ll slag it off all right – slagging has always been an Olympic sport around here – but it’s a critique born of a deep pride that these days is extremely well placed.
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The 'Three Graces' at sunset.
- Glenn Beanland
- Lonely Planet photographer
