“Where are you from?” “England.” “Whereabouts?” “Liverpool.” “Liverpool? Ah, Mo Salah!”
My partner, Lizzie, and I found ourselves conducting the exact same conversation countless times with locals during a recent holiday to Egypt. It did not take long to work out the pattern of this groundhog day back-and-forth.
“We love Mo Salah! Liverpool though,” accompanied by an unimpressed look on the participating Egyptian face. “It has been a bad season. Is he leaving?”
