this is the small city of bootle, just north of liverpool.eighborhoods like this have fallen on hard times. what never changes is the love of soccer. ( crowd cheering ) in a pub around the corner, the grownups root for the liverpool football club. it's a passion. ( yelling, cheering ) the old men here once worked the docks downtown. for the young men, that's rarely an option now. ( oohing ) this is a tale of two nearby cities, united perhaps only by their support of liverpool soccer. one is the story of gritty neighborhoods that once housed the dock workers of a major european seaport. the other is the reformed, revitalized downtown, where high-tech and service-sector workers the cheer the same teamed, in a popular new sports bar. it wasn't always like this. for many years, workers from bootle awoke each day located where the mersey rivere tenters the irish sea,. the region is called merseyside. located where the mersey rivere on the liverpool docks, longshoremen from bootle and other places once came to load and unload the cargo of an empire