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  •   It's all changed now, which is why it mattered to those young men from Liverpool that they should be there to support their team.What other group isgoing to troop their colours for them, present them with scarves and emblems?

    - Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge
      After the Hillsborough football disaster. Quoted in David Pickering The Cassell Soccer Companion (1994).

  • The folk that livein Liverpool, their heart isintheir boots; They go to hell like lambs, they do, because the hooter hoots.

    - G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
      'Me Heart'.

  •    Alas, it doesindeed seema monstrousthing, but afterall, what is chaste in Constantinople may have the aspect of lewdness in Liverpool, and what in Liverpool may pass for virtueinConstantinopleisfrequently regardedasvice.

    - Ford Madox originally Ford Hermann Hueffer Ford
      Letter to  John Lane,17 Dec.

  • ThistownhastwogreatteamsLiverpool and Liverpool reserves.

    - Bill (William) Shankly
    Deliberately ignoring rival team Everton. Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guiness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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