Saturday, 26 April 2014

Football power shift tilts the balance in the age old Manchester-Liverpool rivalry

Fans mourn the end of the glory years, and the cash United's success generated for the city. But 30 miles away, it's a new dawn in Liverpool

"What about Moyes, then?" asks Calum Best, the lothario son of Manchester United legend George. He has a shaven head, a luxuriant beard and an accent adrift somewhere west of the Azores. Terry Christian the one from Channel 4's The Word, born and raised in Old Trafford drains his glass of champagne. "I don't like what United have done," he replies. "We were the last club to get rid of our manager like that. Now we're just like everyone else."


This slightly surreal exchange takes place during the preamble to the 2014 Miss Manchester beauty pageant at the Palace Hotel, a repurposed building in the city centre where Morrissey once worked for the Inland Revenue. Best along with actresses Kym Marsh and Chelsee Healey, both in risqué jumpsuits is judging the contest, while Christian contributes a playfully snarky punditry to Thursday's proceedings.


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