Past the Eurovision tune Contest's carnival of outlandish costumes, variable Europop and unstable balloting, there's some thing bigger at stake for this 12 months's host city.
In a memento keep in Liverpool, some new additions are on display alongside the usual Beatles and football products.
there may be a blue-and-yellow woolly hat with "Liverpool" on one facet, "Ukraine" on the alternative, and the date 2023 (yours for £19.ninety nine).