Liverpool to do the double over AC Milan.

I don't have any ancestral connections with Liverpool, but I was brought up on the outskirts.   I realised only recently where the Liverpool accent came from.   It always seemed weird that people connected the Liverpudlian accent to Lancastrian and Irish, neither of which sounds very much like Liverpudlian (although it made perfect sense to assume that Irish and local English accents would have had a major influence).   I actually believe that Liverpool's accent is from North Wales.   Liverpool is really the biggest Welsh city, except that it happens to be in England.   The accent of the North Wales coast is monumentally strange and Scouse is a slightly less extreme version of the North Welsh accent.

Every now and again, some genius suggests that people should be permitted to spell English (and any other language, presumably, by implication) however they want.   Unless you have some basic spelling rules, however, one person's prose is another's gobbledygook.   If you are going to have rules, you may as well have set spellings, even if some of the established spellings vary very slightly by territory.  If English spelling were to vary according to local accent, the result would be Bedlam.

Accents are very strange, anyway.   It's certainly true that GB and Ireland have a huge range of accents.   I think you'll find the same range in France, Germany, or Italy, but not, perhaps, in Canada or Australia, despite the huge distances.   I think I can tell Alabama from New Jersey, just about,  but is there such a thing as a Colorado accent?   A New Zealand accent  can be told from an Australian one by a sensitive ear, but a Kiwi friend of mine, having lived consecutively in NSW and London, can no longer distinguish a fellow-countryman from an Australian.