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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Simon Burnton

Liverpool, inflexible sheep farmers and why a change can do you good

Is the stage set for a calmer Merseyside derby at Anfield?
Is the stage set for a calmer Merseyside derby at Anfield? Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

IT JUST HITS DIFFERENT

There is a story about a wise old man who lived, many years ago, high in the Indian mountains. Every day the man ate the same food, not just the same breakfast or the same lunch but the exact same thing for every single meal, every single day, like Mariah Carey. He ate only this one thing, and though the precise details have been lost in the mists of time that thing was mainly rice so it was already quite boring – not just for him, but also for the person whose job it was to prepare his meals. Eventually the cook confronted him. “Why do you always eat the same thing?” the cook asked. “Are you not as bored of eating it as I am of cooking it?” The old man shook his head. “It is not the same food,” he said. “How can I eat exactly the same thing twice? Every day is different.”

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