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October 30, 2009

In Soccer, It's Manchester Divided

Dave Kansas, Wall Street Journal

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Kevin and Tony Parker get along pretty well as far as being brothers goes. But during soccer season they sometimes won't talk for days on end. Despite being blood relations, the Parkers find themselves on opposite ends of a soccer debate that has increasingly gripped this industrial town in Northwest England: are you a Red or a Blue?

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TAGGED: Manchester United, manchester city, EUROPE, Soccer

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