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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