{"id":793524,"date":"2026-10-06T08:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793524\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T08:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:24:09","slug":"couple-still-divided-by-football-after-60-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793524\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple still divided by football after 60 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A couple married for 60 years have said the only time they ever disagree with each other is when Liverpool play Everton. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pat and Dave Hughes, who both live at St Joseph&#8217;s Hospice in Thornton, Sefton,  celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary on Friday, and said they were congratulated by every member of staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The couple, who share three children, eight grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren, also received a personal message from the King and Queen Camilla.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pat said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve got different personalities, but they gel together. I think that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s lasted so long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair have built their life together, bonding over a shared love of family, laughter, and, of course, football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We agree on lots of things and we do lots of things together. There are lots of things we disagree on \u2013 and that&#8217;s fine,&#8221; Pat said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;One thing we disagree on is Liverpool and Everton. On derby day, that&#8217;s one day we are never in agreement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They marked their diamond wedding anniversary at St Joseph&#8217;s Hospice, where Dave has been treated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Every member of staff has congratulated us, and the way they&#8217;ve been looking after us today has been amazing,&#8221; Pat said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They haven&#8217;t just looked after Dave, they&#8217;ve looked after me as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A couple married for 60 years have said the only time they ever disagree with each other is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-793524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}