Whaddya mean I look like a Newcastle supporter?
Ah, Friday. A day for cutting out early to spend extra time with your true loves. By which I
mean alcohol and Dapper Dan. Your liver might complain, but the ladies won't, and that pesky organ
will just have to learn to keep its place. Until then, try to look busy while you catch up with the
various Liverpool goings on and sip discreetly from the flask in your desk.
Every so often, on my perambulations around the footballing part of the internet, I come across
a discussion of the Beatles and football: they were Scousers, in their sly way, after all. Were
they Liverpool fans? Old Evertonians? Was the Walrus really Dave Hickson? Etc.
The story that usually emerges is that none of the Beatles (George Best included) was
particularly devoted to football.
As these articles are required to begin: "It was thirty years ago today..."
Thirty years since John Lennon was killed in New York.
Football and Music has more on the relationship between The Beatles and football - turns out they
weren't all that bothered. Although there is also a suggestion that Brian Epstein told them not to
make their allegiances clear to avoid upsetting the red or blue sides of Liverpool.
