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Bookmark & shareSpectator sports come into their own in sports-mad Liverpool, and football is the obvious pastime of choice. Of course, no trip to Liverpool is complete without taking a ferry ride across the you-know-what, or a Magical Mystery Strawberry Fields Penny Lane Beatles bus tour.
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casino
With the Leo, Grosvenor and three Stanley casinos to choose from, punters are well looked-after in Liverpool.
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soccer
The cliche of football-as-religion is made flesh in Liverpool: the town is pretty much divided between red (Liverpool FC) and blue (Everton FC).
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racing
The Grand National, held over nearly 8km (5mi), is the biggest and most controversial horse race in the country.
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