Book serialisation: Far Foreign Land, Chapter 18
The morning after, a confrontation with a Sun reader and musings on the globalisation of football in the aftermath of a match that was a catalyst for bringing American owners to Anfield
These were the last words he said
IN FRONT OF THE Blue Mosque, a man in a Liverpool shirt is reading a newspaper. It is a copy of The Sun, a special edition of the paper printed in Istanbul. I can’t believe it. The paper that accepted the police and Government’s line that we were drunk, burst down the gates, stole from our own dead and urinated on them, …
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