Former skilled footballers have created historical past by taking part in the first-ever soccer match inside a cathedral.
As a part of The Swimming pools’ 100-year anniversary celebrations – a betting firm that originated in Liverpool – legends resembling John Barnes, Steve McMahon and Peter Reid took half in a 20-minute, six-a-side match inside Liverpool Cathedral. The Swimming pools created a short lived pitch in The Properly of the Cathedral, with the rating ending 1-1 after full-time.
Barnes, McMahon, Sammy Lee, Mark Wright, Neil Mellor and Emmerdale actor Kurtis Stacey fashioned one group, with Rachel Brown-Finnis, Peter Reid, Neil Ruddock, Colin Hendry, Michael Ball and X-Issue’s Scott Wilkes their opponents.
Mellor and Reid each scored for his or her respective sides within the record-breaking match, with Sammy Lee tucking away the profitable penalty at hand his facet the trophy, lifted by John Barnes.
James Arnold, CEO of The Swimming pools, mentioned: “We needed to create a memorable sporting spectacle within the metropolis the place The Soccer Swimming pools’ unimaginable story started and this was completely it.
“As a proudly Liverpool-born enterprise, The Swimming pools already has shut connections with the Cathedral so we had been delighted to have it because the venue for our file try, particularly when the Dean kindly supplied to tackle the duty of refereeing. She positively stored a cool head and made positive it was a unbelievable honest sport.”
The Very Rev. Dr Sue Jones even refereed the match, and highlighted how the historic match was the most recent occasion designed to encourage guests to have interaction with the cathedral in numerous methods.
“The Swimming pools is an establishment, not simply in Liverpool however throughout the nation, so we had been thrilled to be a singular a part of its centenary celebrations,” she mentioned. “Jesus was all the time eager to achieve out to as many individuals as potential and in Liverpool there’s no higher approach to try this than with soccer.”
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