"Manchester could not have been any busier if The Smiths, New Order and Stone Roses all re-formed and played a one-off, free gig in Heaton Park. " - By Colin Moffat
This simple statement makes me wish The Smiths would get back together just once. Morrissey could call his friends in New Order and The Stone Roses and blow out Manchester. All three bands are some of my personal favorites, and to see a reference to them in a column about a football (soccer) match is amazing. Such a great and quintessentially British description of the scene in Manchester, England when it was overrun by Rangers fans from Scotland. You don't see crossover descriptions very much at all in American journalism, especially not in the sports column. But Colin Moffat manages to do a wonderful job of painting the atmosphere of a sporting event using a great cognitive jump to a fictional and impossible dream of a rock concert (that I would go to at the drop of a hat by the way).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/7401917.stm
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