Boxing Day madness
Over at the Beeb, they’re reporting record shopping numbers at the Boxing Day sales in the North West today.
The thought of 130,000 frantic bargain-hunters raiding the Trafford Centre’s Superdrug is more than enough to keep me away. I visited Preston briefly where only Riverisland attracted anything constituting a queue.
I was also drawn to that other annual feature of Boxing Day: a festive, freezing football match.
Blackburn Rovers’ 1-0 win over Liverpool was the game of choice. The ticket cost 39, which works out at 43p per minute of football (excluding injury time).
Or, according to current rates, 12.2 ounces of gold, which is probably how much the ticket and program (3) weighed.
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