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Meta: it's a weird use of "The" in the title, it's about "Liverpool Football Club" and the definite-article is unnecessary. Indeed the "The Liverpool Football Club" makes it wrong as Liverpool is one of two [major league] Liverpool based football clubs [Liverpool, Everton], at least.

Being a pedant is annoying sometimes.

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I think this is a US/British English distinction, since saying "The New York Mets" or "The Dallas Cowboys" is the norm, but never "The Manchester United" or "The Rangers" (despite being a plural).

Come to think of it, does any NFL team not end in a plural?

My favorite sports trivia question:

Name the 7 NCAA FBS (Div 1 college football) teams whose name is not a plural and also does not contain a color (i.e. Crimson Tide doesn't count).

Hint: Two of them are the same team name at different schools

Fighting Illini.

There's 1

Stanford Cardinal, Norte Dame Fighting Irish, Illinois Illini, Syracuse Orange, the two Wolf Pack (NC State and Nevada), and I cannot think of a seventh school.

If I can’t use colors then I guess Syracuse doesn’t count.

>Stanford Cardinal

Stanford Cardinal is also a color.

William and Mary Tribe

"Fighting Irish" could still be plural, couldn't it?

Good point, I should have clarified, I meant "doesn't end in 's'".

You got 4

I'm guessing Cardinal, Orange and Mean Green don't count?

I think Irish and Illini are both plural.

I only have 3 then, Thundering Herd and Wolf Pack(x2)

Sorry, I should have been more clear, I meant "doesn't end in 's'". You got 5.

Answer: Fighting Irish, Fighting Illini, Wolfpack x2, Midshipmen, Minutemen, Thundering Herd.

Arsenal F.C. on the other hand are commonly referred to as the Arsenal.

In the article itself, Liverpool are correctly referenced throughout, without "The".

I read it as The for "The reliance", not Liverpool.

But you wouldn't say "The my reliance", so why would you say "The Liverpool Football Club's reliance"?

Ok, we've nixed the the.

Lol, sorry dang. Mod problems, we'll never all be happy, eh.

Well. Far be it from me to impose colonial articling on how the motherland of the language is accustomed to refer to her sporting clubs.

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