LFC lift Community Shield Trophy 2006

Liverpool 2-1 Chelsea (Riise 9, Crouch 80)


I know the Community Shield victory is nothing to brag home about, but every victory over Chelsea is as sweet as the perfumes of Arabia.

It's rather ironic that the morning's gossip included a potential £15 million bid by Chelsea for Liverpool's awesome Norwegian left-winger, John Arne Riise.

What is the origin of the pound sign (£)?

This sign is simply a capital letter L, written in old-fashioned roundhand, with one or two crossbars to show that it is being used as a symbol or abbreviation.

The L stands for the Latin word libra, the name of a Roman unit of weight, which also gave rise to the abbreviation lb for a pound as a measure of weight, and to the French word livre.

The symbol for the Japanese yen was probably invented by analogy with the pound and dollar symbols, as it is a capital Y with one or two bars across it.

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