Liverpool in the mind

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As a university professor, I get to supervise PhD students. I was in my office chatting with one of them, an Iranian, who had done some interviews in his home city. We were listening to one of these, and I noticed the word 'Liverpool' (I didn't understand anything else). I asked about it, and he replied that lots of people over there supported Liverpool. I then responded by saying that, through my work, I had briefly met a man in Norway who regularly came over to attend Liverpool matches. As I was finishing speaking, the phone rang. It was that man. I don't know him very well, and I hadn't had any contact with him for a year or more before the call.
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:53:46 +0000Coincidence ID:3751