Joel Rookwood

Yeah, and there was a risk because we're both Reds.

So, and in fact, John, I've just received our first review on Goodreads and it's one star.

And it's by an Evertonian who just doesn't like it, which I think was, Dan wasn't that happy about that.

I thought it was brilliant.

I thought it was great.

Listen, I've sent the book to a few Evertonian mates and I hope they read it, but ultimately it is written by two Liverpool fans.

And even though we've tried to give an account, I don't think this is an equal football city in that respect.

I think it matters equally to the fans of the two clubs, but I think it's just...

Not equal in the point of view of the history and the prestige of the clubs, and Evertonians won't like to hear that, but that would certainly be my view.

So, starting with Liverpool as a city, I've left the city, so I live in Dublin now, I've been gone 10 years, and I think you get to know a place...

that you're from or you've lived in more when you leave it sometimes.

So Dan helped formulate the early part of the chapter and I was able to kind of plug a few gaps and I think between us we've done a decent job but it's really difficult to concisely give an account for a complex place which is the task that's faced every

one of our contributors and Paddy Howie who follows it with a brilliant chapter on Glasgow and it might seem a bit Eurocentric because most of the chapters are European but we've only got two kind of British cities if we can call Liverpool and Glasgow British in that list but it felt great but also really challenging to like that city on Liverpool.

Yeah, and also the build-up to it.

So even if there's not a game on that day, everyone, if there's one that weekend, there's a lot of anticipation of what's coming.

If we've just had one, we're talking about it last night, you go into cafes and pubs and, you know, any kind of establishments around the city and you kind of feel it.

You also see it.

So it's graffiti, it's, you know, you walk into a bar and there's, you know, the scarves on the walls.

And, yeah, I, probably like yourself, love being in places which feel familiar and recognisable, even though they're,

the points of passion might be blue or yellow or whatever colour the local teams are but it's something familiar right across the world I mean we've got chapters outside of Europe we've got like Rio, Buenos Aires, Rosario we've got Cairo, Casablanca, Jakarta, Mexico City we've even got not the new markets with with Sydney and LA so we want this book to feel global now