I went over to my friend Mark's house here in Denver yesterday morning to watch the Rangers, located in Glascow, play Aberdeen for the 2023 Scottish League Cup. This soccer match was half over when we tuned in, but we did catch the winning goal by the Rangers, who beat Aberdeen 1-0 to win the Scottish League Cup for the first time in 12 years. We then watched Liverpool play Manchester United to a 0-0 tie, which The Guardian described as a very uninspiring soccer match. And finally, we watched the Newcastle Eagles play the Cheshire Phoenix in a British Basketball League game (And yes! The British do have a basketball league, to the surprise of many people actually living in the UK). All of these games seemed to be well attended. No doubt the British are trying to take their minds off a declining GDP, high prices and interest rates, and the threat of steadily rising energy costs just before winter begins. They seem to be in even worse shape than here in the US, not counting the real possibility that Donald Trump could become president again in less than a year. In any case, the photograph above shows Mark, thanks to the magic of Photoshop, standing along the Mersey River in Liverpool, where the Liverpool-Manchester United soccer match was played. Liverpool and Manchester United, by the way, are bitter rivals, and yesterday Liverpool fans damaged the Manchester United team bus as it made its way to Anfield Stadium, the second time this has happened in the past 5 years. They take their sports damn seriously there. Scarily so.
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